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By Ebenezer Howard 1898
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Walt Disney was fascinated by the work of Ebenezer Howard. But this book was on his desk when he died. 18
E.P.C.O.T. Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow Disney s dream city for 20,000 people 19
E.P.C.O.T. Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow Disney s dream city for 20,000 people 20
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Bailly Romainvilliers Pop 5,444, 2.4 sq. mi. Text 23
Ulm, Germany, 120,000 population
Ulm, Germany, 120,000 population
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Central Business District Peter Newman Town Center Railway Local Center Transit Ci5es Bus or LRT route Networks & Nodes
Central Business District Peter Newman Town Center Railway Local Center Transit Ci5es Bus or LRT route Networks & Nodes
The European Vision Polycentric region, polycentric ciges The European Union plans a future in which regions with mul$ple centers organize into collaboragve economic clusters that form sustainable networks of access, mobility, and green infrastructure. SOURCE: United Nations Secretariat World Urbanization Prospects:
Randstad, Netherlands
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Sponsors Welcome, Triangulators! September 24, 2009
2050 - Growth in the Texas Triangle
H Dallas/Ft. Worth Austin Houston San Antonio
H Dallas/Ft. Worth Austin Houston San Antonio
H Dallas/Ft. Worth Austin Houston San Antonio
H Dallas/Ft. Worth Austin Houston San Antonio
Positioning Metros for Success Transit Oriented Development in the NY Region Brownfield redevelopment Retrofitting sprawl Intensifying centers Existing Trend Growth TOD Growth 37
AIR WATER education BAYOUS BIRDS jobs FORESTS FLOODING mobility equity HABITAT ESTUARIES WILDERNESS affordability HEALTH BAYS TREES RIVERS FOOD stress neighborhoods heat RECREATION historic preservation
AIR WATER education BAYOUS jobs FORESTS FLOODING mobility equity Central issue: Land use ESTUARIES WILDERNESS affordability HEALTH BAYS BIRDS HABITAT TREES RIVERS FOOD stress neighborhoods heat RECREATION historic preservation
Central goal: Reduce distances humans have to travel to gain access to goods, services, and each other.
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active living Lower emissions LEED-ND Greenspace conservation walkable urbanism Access to parks Less stress Access to goods & services Less car injury/death 40
Christopher Leinberger, Brookings Ins3tu3on walkable urbanism Market share 35-50% Supply in most markets 5%
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Big home, yard, need to drive Smaller, more urban, walking distance Don t know 2% 57% 41% Houston Area Survey 2010 44
American preferences Pew Research Center, Social & Demographic Trends project
Pew Research Center, Social & Demographic Trends project
Presented by The Honorable Patrick McCrory Mayor, Charlotte, NC The Honorable Patrick McCrory Mayor, Charlotte, NC Tel 704.408.0224 Email pmccrory@carolina.rr.com
Downtown Waller now
Downtown Waller tomorrow
Rail- supporgve areas Projected ridership: 150,000 boardings per day Central Business District Uptown/Galleria Greenway Universities Gulfton Med Center
Can we begin to visualize our neighborhoods as small towns? Opportunity
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High-Speed Rail for the Houston Region Opportunity
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America 2050 high speed rail map, 2009
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Sustainable Texas Triangle Focus on centers of many sizes throughout the megaregion. Improve the connecions among them Improve and enrich greenspace, including agricultural land. Remove sprawl from the lexicon.
Sustainable Texas Triangle Quality of life > Standard of living
Sustainable Texas Triangle The Texas Triangle is a sustainable megaregion with multiple clusters of cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods with improved access to people, goods, services, and other amenities in healthy green infrastructure.
Houston Tomorrow s 2036 Vision On its 200th birthday, the Houston region is home to the healthiest, happiest, most prosperous people in the United States. houstontomorrow.org
Studies suggest that doubling density raises producivity by 6-28 percent. Ryan Avent, One Path to Be<er Jobs, NY Times More than half the variaion in output per worker across the United States can be explained by density alone; Density explains more of the producivity gap across states than educaion levels or industry concentraions or tax policies. 72
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
More mass in all of ants than in all of humanity. Yet they aren t destroying their own home and are incredibly successful.