placemaking conference: the state of community in oklahoma
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Walkable Urbanism Place Making: What it Means to Oklahoma
h7p://business.gwu.edu/walkup/
“See the USA in your Chevrolet”
3rd Version of the American Dream: Option of Walkable Urban OR Drivable Sub-Urban
VMT Trends 1970-‐2012 US PIRG & FronLer Group, 2012
Decline from 2004 peak by 6% on average; the young (16-‐34) declined by 23% since 2001
Santa Fe, NM
Arlington Starts Transforms in 1980s: Rail Transit, Overlay Zoning & Mgmt
Same Place Today
1980s: Ex-‐Sears Stores
Two blocks north and south, single family housing that is highest priced in Arlington on $/foot basis: Best of Two Worlds 10% of the land=50%+ of government revenues
Among best schools in Country…new housing has 0.4 per unit
Christopher B. Leinberger Land use strategist, developer, author, researcher, professor
(www.cleinberger.com)
• The Op'on of Urbanism; Inves'ng in a New American Dream, Island Press, 2008
• The Next Slum?, The AtlanLc Monthly, March, 2008
• Here Comes the Neighborhood, The AtlanLc
• “The Death of the Fringe Suburbs”, New York Times, November 26, 2011
• “Now Coveted, A Walkable Convenient Place”, New York Times, May 25, 2012
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