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Must View
- How to Make an Attractive City
- Jeff Speck: Four Road Diets
- The Indianapolis Cultural Trail: The Next-Gen in U.S. Protected Bike Lanes
- Autonomous Cars – How a driverless car sees the road
- How Parking Spaces Are Eating Our Cities Alive
- The General Theory of Walkability | Jeff Speck |
“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”
– Fred Kent, Project for Public Spaces
Placemaking
- 8 Principles for Fostering Streets as Places
- Creating Public Spaces – Fred Kent
- How Parking Spaces Are Eating Our Cities Alive
- Livable Communities Initiative – VC Civic Alliance
- Most Livable Communites Brochure
- New Urbanism – Andres Duany
- Remaking Southern California Cities
- Ventura County Civic Alliance – Livable Communities
- Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
- 50 Ideas to Improve Public Spaces
- Project for Public Spaces – YouTube Video Channel
- 22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees
- (Re)Building Downtown – by Smart Growth America
(Re)Building Downtown: A Guidebook for Revitalization is a resource for local elected officials who want to re-invigorate and strengthen neighborhood centers of economy, culture, and history through a smart growth approach to development.
What’s the Big Idea?
- The current path cities are pursuing is not financially stable.
- The future for most cities will not resemble the recent past.
- The main determinant of future prosperity for cities will be local leaders’ ability to transform their communities.
Form Based Codes
“Why form-based codes? Because our current laws tend to separate where we live from where we work, learn, and shop, and insist on big, fast roads to connect them all. Roads that are unfriendly to pedestrians, cyclists, and transit. As a result, North Americans spend more hours in their cars than anyone on earth, and a growing number of communities are working to do something about it.” [ PlaceMakers.com ]
- Wikipedia – Form-based code
- Form-Based Codes Institute
- What Are Form-Based Codes?
- Mesa, Arizona – Form-Based Zoning Code
- Conventional Zoning vs. Form-based Code
- The Sustainable Cities Institute – Form-Based Codes
- Puget Sound Regional Council – Form-Based Zoning
- Sample Form Based Codes
- Ventura – Sample Codes
- SmartCode Modules
- Form Based Codes – A Step by Step Guide
- SmartCode
The SmartCode differs from some other form-based codes in that its community-scale and block-scale articles are written explicitly for zoning. Zoning reform is essential to allow walkable mixed-use neighborhoods, thereby combatting sprawl, preserving open lands, and reducing energy use and carbon emissions. - Form-Based SmartCode
Looking to curb sprawl with a form-based alternative to conventional zoning? No need to reinvent the wheel. The SmartCode is a model ordinance that’s customized to reflect local context, character and goals. And best of all, it’s open source and free.
Tactical Urbanism
- The Official Guide to Tactical Urbanism
- Tactical Urbanism Beta (Street Plans Collaborative)
- Tactical Urbanism – Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change (Lydon – CNU)
- The Planner’s Guide to Tactical Urbanism
City Planning
- StreetsBlog
- CityLab
- Smart Growth America
- Project for Public Spaces
- National Complete Streets Coalition
- Complete Streets in California
- Open Streets Guide
- The Street Plans Collaborative
- Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS)
- “Evaluating Complete Streets Projects: A guide for practitioners” webinar and discussion
- Jeff Speck – Speck & Associates City Planner & Urban Designer
- StreetFilms
- Better Cities & Towns – Congress for the New Urbanism
- The Charter of the New Urbanism
- Sustainable Cities Collective
- Visualizing Density
- How Parking Spaces Are Eating Our Cities Alive
City Planning & Urban Design
These firms and consultants seem to get it right
Economic Development
- Safer Streets – Stronger Economies
- Fiscal Implications of Development Patterns
- A candid talk about the future of America’s cities, towns and neighborhoods
- Competitive Cities for jobs and growth
“While the report takes pains to note that there is no silver bullet for urban competitiveness, it identifies some key factors and strategies that bear on it. The most competitive cities focus on higher-skill tradable industries, attracting foreign investment, creating new businesses, and growing their existing, already competitive firms (which usually has the biggest impact on job creation). They also have strong growth coalitions of elected leaders, civic officials, and the private sector. Most importantly, they have a clear strategy to exploit their competitive advantages. In Bucaramanga, Colombia, for instance, the city has used its oil revenues to invest in universities known for their research on the oil industry—in turn generating technical skills and boosting human capital. It’s this kind of creative and independent thinking that allows cities to do a lot with a limited amount of resources.”
Infill Housing – Myths & Facts and More
- Higher-Density Development – MYTH AND FACT
- Myths & Facts About Affordable & Higher Density and Housing
- Infill Development Standards and Policy Guide
- The Infill Design Toolkit: Medium-Density Residential Development
You Think You Know About Parking?
- Downtown Parking Myths, Realities and Solutions
- Parking Reform for a Livable City
- Solving the Downtown Parking Problem
- 4 Easy Steps to Squash the “Theres No Parking” Argument
- How Parking Spaces Are Eating Our Cities Alive
Design Review
- Seattle Design Review Program – Neighborhood-Specific Design Guidelines
- Design Review Guidelines and Code Provisions
- Santa Barbara – Design Guidelines and Related Documents
- Pasadena – Design Guidelines
- San Clemente – Design Guidelines
- Portland – Design Guidelines
- Laguna Beach – Design Guidelines
- Puget Sound Regional Council – Design Guidelines
Human Scale Design
- Traffic Calming Devices – An Introduction
- Making Streets Slim Down Is Good For Pedestrians, Businesses And Even Traffic
Transportation Engineering
- Context Based Design and the Fate of the Arterial
A brief and urban look at the way a street engineer can make our streets walkable. The street engineer that pulls out the code book and tells you, with various official sounding citations, that making streets only for cars is the only thing that can be done – is regressive and does not understand where cities are going. We need street engineers that understand walkability, urbanism and placemaking. The code based street engineer is a dinosaur. - Institute of Transportation Engineers
Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach
Oxnard
- City of Oxnard – Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Master Plan (2011):
- City of Oxnard – Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan Appendices (2011):
- Facebook – Oxnard Bicycles
- Oxnard according to Wikipedia
- OXNARD ZONING ORDINANCES
- www.OxnardBicycles.org
- Oxnard Branding Plan 2011 – July 2010 – Roger Brooks International
It’s a flashy thing – but does not address low density downtown and a broken down main street - Oxnard Branding, Development and Marketing Action Plan – June 2011
Everything but dealing with the real issues of low density downtown and a highway as our namesake main street - Draft Transportation Demand Management Plan (TDM)
- Oxnard 2030 General Plan
- Oxnard Specific Plans
- Oxnard’s 2006-2014 Housing Element
- Ventura County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan
- Oxnard Development Project List
- City of Oxnard DOWNTOWN STRATEGIC PLAN – Project Report – April 2005
- City of Oxnard Downtown Strategic Plan Executive Summary – April 2005
- Oxnard Sidewalk Survey – Final Report – September 2015
Report focuses on hardscape only. No recognition or acknowledgement that sidewalks are for people who walk or for place making. Thus no understanding that investment and economic development follow places where people like to gather and walk. - Profile of the City of Oxnard – SCAG – Local Profile Report May 2015
- The 1996 plan prepared for the Oxnard Community Development Commission by the following firms: Civitas, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the Gibbs Planning Group, and Curtis Stiles, A.S.L.A.
Traffic Engineering and Grants
Active Transportation
Climate Change Adaption and Resilience
- West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
- Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the California Coast
- Pacific Institute
Bicycle Advocacy
- BiciCentro – Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
- Bicycle Boulevards
- Bikestation Santa Barbara: A Cyclist’s Safehaven
- CicLAvia: Thousands ditch cars for bicycles for the day
- Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition
- National Complete Streets Coalition
- The Invisible Cyclists of Los Angeles
- Ventura Bicycle Union
- Ventura County Civic Alliance – Livable Communities
Bike Stuff
- BiciCentro – Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
- Bike Metro
- Bikesharing Works in the USA
- Channel Islands Bicycle Club
- Coalition for Sustainable Transportation (COAST)
- Critical Mass
- League of American Bicyclists
- Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition
- Safe Routes to Schools
- Urban Lifestyle in Oxnard
- Ventura Bicycle Union
- Why Ride?
- Why Do Cyclists Break the Rules?
- City of Oxnard – Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Master Plan (2011):
- City of Oxnard – Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan Appendices (2011):
- Climate Change and Bicycling
- Getting More Bike Parking Racks in Your Neighborhood
- Most Livable Communites Brochure
- Highway Design Manual – California 2015
Changes include revised pedestrian refuge island guidance…Class 1 bikeway guidance
Rider Safety
- Bicycle Safety – The Rights and Duties of Cyclists
- Bicycle Safety Animations
- Bicycle Safety Animations – Controlling your lane can change your life and much more…
- Bicycling Street Smarts: Riding Confidently, Legally and Safely
- BIKE RIDING TIPS
- How to Not Get Hit by Cars
- Rules of the Road
Video
- Bicycle Boulevards
- Bicycle Safety – The Rights and Duties of Cyclists
- Bikestation Santa Barbara: A Cyclist’s Safehaven
- Creating Public Spaces – Fred Kent
- Danny MacAskill – Inspired Bicycles – April 2009
- Danny MacAskill – “Way Back Home”
- From the Netherlands to America: Translating the World’s Best Bikeway Designs
- How Parking Spaces Are Eating Our Cities Alive
- Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
- New Urbanism – Andres Duany
- Remaking Southern California Cities
- Why Safe Routes to Schools Matter
- How to Make an Attractive City