WHERE WE WANT TO LIVE

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1 WHERE WE WANT TO RYAN GRAVEL ST MARTINS PRESS NEW YORK MARCH 15, 2016

2 Alexandria, Louisiana Geraldine Keller Gravel with daughter Gerry, 1940s (Gravel family collection)

3 Where We Want to Live Where We Want to Live Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities, Ryan Gravel (St Martin s Press, 2016)

4 @ryangravel Change. Atlanta Beltline. Catalyst Infrastructure. Why It Matters.

5 @ryangravel Atlanta Beltline (Ryan Gravel, 2006)

6 @ryangravel Atlanta Beltline (Ralph Daniels, 2013)

7 CHANGE.

8 37 Rue Traversière, Paris (Ryan Gravel, 1994) CHANGE.

9 Infrastructure + Culture Baron Haussmann; les Grands Boulevards, Paris

10 Infrastructure + Culture Baron Haussmann; demolition for construction of the Avenue de l Opera, Paris

11 Infrastructure + Culture Baron Haussmann; Boulevard Richard Lenoir, Paris

12 Infrastructure + Culture Paris (Ryan Gravel, 2010)

13 Paris Avenue de l Opera: Morning Sunshine, Camille Pissaro, 1898

14 IT WAS MORE THAN INFRASTRUCTURE. IT WAS A NEW WAY OF LIFE.

15 Atlanta Louisville & Nashville Railroad Virginia Tennessee and Georgia Air Line

16 Atlanta Koch s Birdseye View of Atlanta, 1892

17 Detroit Woodward Avenue, Detroit, circa 1917 (Detroit Publishing Company)

18 Cleveland Detroit Superior Bridge (built ; source: Library of Congress/courtesy of Turner Publishing)

19 IT WAS MORE THAN INFRASTRUCTURE. IT WAS A WAY OF LIFE.

20 Cleveland Cuyahoga River on Fire! (1952, Cleveland State University Library; at least one of ten such fires )

21 New York City Tenement Life in New York City (1916)

22 Atlanta Buttermilk Bottom, Atlanta Mayor Hartsfield, right (Grey Villet, photographer; Life Magazine, 1959)

23 Atlanta Atlanta (1950s)

24 New York A Levittown Family, New York (1940s)

25 Alexandria, Louisiana Geraldine Keller Gravel with daughter Gerry, 1940s (Gravel family collection)

26 Detroit Fort Street, Southgate, Michigan, 1956 (Martin, Detroit News)

27 Los Angeles The Stahl House, Los Angeles (Nicolas de Camaret, 2012)

28 Moon Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon (Neil Armstrong, 1969)

29 Memphis The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorraine Motel, Memphis, 1964

30 Atlanta Metropolitan Atlanta Chamblee, Georgia (Gravel family collection)

31 Atlanta Metropolitan Atlanta

32 Atlanta Lawrenceville, Georgia (Ryan Gravel, 2011)

33 IT IS MORE THAN INFRASTRUCTURE. IT S OUR WAY OF LIFE.

34 Car-Dependency Cobb County, Georgia (Ryan Gravel)

35 Car-Dependency

36 Car-Dependency

37 Atlanta Atlanta Beltline (Ryan Gravel, 2006)

38 Atlanta ATLANTA BELTLINE. Atlanta Beltline (Ryan Gravel, 2006)

39 ATLANTA BELTLINE.

40 35 KM LONG (22 mi) 3-5 KM FROM DOWNTOWN (2-4 mi) 45 NEIGHBOURHOODS 100k PEOPLE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE 4-6k ACRES FOR REDEVELOPMENT (2k ha)

41 VISION LEADERSHIP GRASSROOTS GROWTH FEASIBILITY POLITICS FUNDING

42 FEASIBILITY PLANS REDEVELOPMENT PLAN SUB AREA PLANS OVERLAY ZONING TRANSIT PLANS PARK DESIGNS CORRIDOR DESIGN

43 It takes a Partnership

44

45 1 2 3

46 Project Development: Fiscal Year Forecast $500,000,000 $450,000,000 $400,000,000 $350,000,000 Economic Dev ABI Operations Existing Debt PILOT Aff Housing Streetscapes Trails Parks Transit $300,000,000 $250,000,000 $200,000,000 $150,000,000 $100,000,000 $50,000,000 $ Fiscal Year Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Source: Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (2013)

47 Trail Implementation Built Trail Designed Trail Next Trails for Construction

48 Sorry Naysayers, It s Working $2.4 BILLION PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT HOUSING SHOPPING BUSINESS HOSPITALITY ENTERTAINMENT Ponce City Market (Ryan Gravel, 2016)

49 Sorry Naysayers, It s Working Atlanta Beltline (Ralph Daniels, 2013)

50 IT IS MORE THAN INFRASTRUCTURE. IT S OUR WAY OF LIFE.

51 HEALTH. EQUITY. ECONOMIC PROSPERITY. CIVIC IDENTITY.

52 CATALYST INFRASTRUCTURE.

53 CATALYST INFRASTRUCTURE.

54 Catalyst Infrastructure

55 High Line New York City (Ryan Gravel, 2011)

56 Rail Park Philadelphia (Ryan Gravel, 2012)

57 Rail Corridor Singapore (Ryan Gravel, 2015)

58 Katy Trail Dallas (RG, 2014)

59 Arbutus Corridor Vancouver (Ryan Gravel, 2013)

60 Green Line Toronto (Ryan Gravel, 2014)

61 Lafitte Greenway New Orleans (Ryan Gravel, 2014)

62 Midtown Greenway Minneapolis (Ryan Gravel, 2009)

63 Dequindre Cut Greenway Detroit (Ryan Gravel, 2012)

64 S-Line Salt Lake City (Ryan Gravel, 2014)

65 Underline Miami (Ryan Gravel, 2016)

66 Buffalo Bayou Houston (Ryan Gravel, 2012)

67 Los Angeles River Los Angeles (Ryan Gravel, 2011)

68 East River Blueway New York City (Ryan Gravel, 2013)

69 Under Gardiner Toronto (Ryan Gravel, 2014)

70 Kwun Tong Promenade Hong Kong (Ryan Gravel, 2016)

71 Harahan Bridge Memphis (Ryan Gravel, 2014)

72 Cultural Trail Indianapolis (Ryan Gravel, 2014)

73 IT S MORE THAN INFRASTRUCTURE. IT S A NEW WAY OF LIFE.

74 WHY IT MATTERS.

75 WHY IT MATTERS.

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77 Infra-Culture Delta Flight Path. Girl Scout Troop

78 Infra-Culture Morning Commute. Jackson s Last Walk.

79 Infra-Culture Winter Shadows, Spring Flânuer, 2013.

80 Infra-Culture Spring Meadow. Winter Sledding.

81 Infra-Culture Winter weekend afternoon (Ryan Gravel, 2014)

82 I can write all the prescriptions in the world for high blood pressure and weight loss and I d never do as much good as the Beltline has done or can do for Atlanta. Dr. Richard Jackson, professor and chair of environmental health sciences at UCLA & former director of CDC s National Center for Environmental Health

83 Infra-Culture Ivy Knight (Ryan Gravel, 2014).

84 a ladder of opportunity a game-changer. Anthony Foxx, Secretary, US DOT $18.5 Million TIGER V Grant for 3 miles of the Atlanta Beltline Westside Trail.

85 Infra-Culture Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade, 2013 (Krewe of the Grateful Gluttons)

86 What were once a deserted industrial landscape and an unused, overgrown, and debris-filled rail corridor are now thriving, active neighborhood assets. Gwen Keyes Fleming, Chief of Staff, US EPA 2013 Smart Growth Project of the Year.

87 Infra-Culture Atlanta Beltline (collage, Perkins+Will, 2009)

88 Infra-Culture Atlanta Beltline (RG, 2013)

89 Infra-Culture Atlanta Beltline (RG, 2013)

90 Infra-Culture Atlanta Beltline (Perkins+Will, 2013)

91 WHERE WE WANT TO LIVE

92 WHERE WE WANT TO LIVE RECLAIMING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A NEW GENERATION OF ryan@sixpitch.com RYAN GRAVEL ST MARTINS PRESS NEW YORK MARCH 15, 2016