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Livable Communities

Now that we are here …

What can we do?

Stillwater, OklahomaDan Burden and Kelly Morphy

The Walkable and Livable Communities Institute

Completing our Streets

Complete Streets

Is this the landscape that supports

Living in Place?

What are these people doing?

“Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for

the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But

the destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom

of our incompetence at city building.

The simple needs of automobiles are more easily understood

and satisfied than the complex needs of cities, and a growing

number of planners and designers have come to believe that if

they can only solve the problems of traffic, they will thereby

have solved the major problems of cities.

Cities have much more intricate economic and social concerns than

automobile traffic. How can you know what to try with traffic until you

know how the city itself works, and what else it needs to do with its streets?

You can't.”

Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities , 1961

“How can you know what to try with traffic until ….”

Peak VMT

“What is the first thing an

infant wants to do and the

last thing an older person

wants to give up?”

Which focus of investment shown in the two panels to the right brings about the greatest good for a society?

Places for people, or places for cars?

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the

pathway to the center.

William H. Whyte

Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

Aging-in-place means remaining in one's home safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level. It means the pleasure of living in a familiar environment throughout one's maturing years, and the ability to enjoy the familiar daily rituals and the special events that enrich all our lives.

(National Association of Home Builders)

Aging In Place

Chris Leinberger is optimistic

above the larger impact of these

population trends on cities. “meeting

the pent-up demand for walkable

urban development will take a

generation. It will be a boon to the

real estate industry and put a

foundation under the American

economy for decades, just as the

construction of low-density suburbs

did during the last half of the 20th

century.

People will be moving back to the

city. The question that remains is:

Will they be moving back to your city,

or to someone else’s?

The answer may well lie in

walkability.

Elders want access to the things they need most

It costs $2.8M per year for one fire station with two

apparatus. A well connected system covers 4.6 times

more houses.

($159 per year for well connected vs $740 for poorly

connected) City of Charlotte, N.C.

Coors Boulevard

Land Value (Commercial Zoning $5 to $15 Square Foot)

Land Value (Mixed Use $25-35/ sq foot)

Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, Florida

15-20,000 ADT

Tree canopies can help

slow traffic, which

increases ability to stop

and shop

Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut

People will pay 12

cents more on the

dollar inside main

streets with green

canopies

Brattleboro, Vermont

Not Walkable Walkable

High Car Dependency Low Car Dependency

Serious Congestion Moderate Congestion

Gulf Drive (State Highway) Bradenton Beach, Florida

Canal Road, Orange Beach, Alabama

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

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Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Chico, CA

Nord Avenue

Where would you rather walk? Where would you rather bike? Which is the safest place to bike?

Where would you rather drive? Where would you rather live? Which is the safest place to drive?

What design would make this a complete street?

Bridgeport Way, University Place, Washington

Bridgeport (1999)

Bridgeport Way, University Place, Washington

Bridgeport Way, University Place, Washington

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Head out angled parking

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Exeter, Virginia

America’s First School Roundabout

America’s First School Roundabout

La Jolla Boulevard, Bird Rock, San Diego, California (Five to two lane conversion, before). Four signals and one four-way stop being

removed. Back-in Angled parking to be added. (23,000 ADT)

78 Feet

14 Feet

Speeds above (35-45) Speeds below (18-22)

LaJolla Boulevard, Birdrock, San Diego, CA

LaJolla Boulevard, Birdrock, San Diego, CA

The simple needs of

automobiles are more easily

understood and satisfied than

the complex needs of cities,

and a growing number of

planners and designers have

come to believe that if they

can only solve the problems

of traffic, they will thereby

have solved the major

problems of cities.

Following that philosophy

led to this, redundantly.

A new beaker and measure

will lead to this.

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Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, Florida

15-20,000 ADT

Spartanburg, SC

Albany, California

"Unlike previous papers, Noland's

is not a localized study or one

reflecting unusual roadway types.

It is specific to collectors, and it

applies to all roads of this category

throughout the US.

Noland states bluntly,

'as more arterial and collector lane

widths are increased up to 12 ft or

more, traffic fatalities and injuries

increase....’

These results are quite stunning as

it is general practice to 'improve'

the safety of roads by increasing

lane widths.‘

Evidence that showed narrowing traffic lanes reduce motorist speeds. The journal

Accident Analysis and Prevention

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575) has this article 'In-Press.'

Narrow Lanes and Safety

U.S. 27, Monroe Street,

Tallahassee, Florida

Old Woodward Avenue,

Birmingham, Michigan

Lake Oswego, Oregon

Eighth Street, Boise, Idaho

Downtowns or dense mixed use yield villages yield an 800% increase on yield per acre

Cleveland, Ohio.

Monterey, California

Monterey, California