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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
1800 vehicles
per hour
per lane
800 vehicles per hour
Per lane
Road
Diets
800
600
400
200
Cap
acit
y o
f A
dd
itio
nal Th
rou
gh
Lan
e (
VP
H)
Incremental Efficiency
Network and Capacity
2 2
2
2
2
4
66
4
Same Total Lanes
More Capacity
• VMT
• Turns
•Clearance
Capacity Summary
2000
1600
1200
800
400
60 45 30 50% 40% Multi-
mph mph mph Green Green Phase
2 2 4 4
Ho
urly
Vo
lum
es
Per L
an
e
W. East
Ave
W. First
Street
13,000
19,000
W.8th
Ave18,000
W.
Sacrame
nto
23,000
Traffic Volumes (Today)
W. East
Ave
W. First
Street
W.8th
Ave
W.
Sacrame
nto
Traffic Volumes (Today)
45
mph
35
mph
35
mph
35
mph
W. East
Ave
W. First
Street
W.8th
Ave
W.
Sacrame
nto
Traffic Volumes (Today)
35
mph
30
mph
25
mph
20
mph
Crossing
Island
Bike Lanes
ColorizedTurn Lane
(colorized)
Transit
Stop
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.
StreetDesignManual
StreetsPay Their Way
Through Increased Land Value
IncreasedLand
ValuesNew
MaintenanceFunds
Holistic Use ofStreets
CompleteStreets
Green Streets
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