"Paradigm shift" from use-based zoning to context, transect, consistent in these plans. "21st Century planning."
Planners need to recognize their hubris, take a step back. Ask a core value question to engage the public, don't just ask "what do you want." @KalenAnderson
This is, sorry to report, #Nanaimo's approach. Survey: how do you want to see your city 20 years out? #ocp2020ycd
Draft Ottawa city plan embracing the transect, form-based code zoning. @AlainMiguelez
The 3 Indigenous Nations in Vancouver, @SquamishNation@musqueam@tsleilwaututh are the biggest private land owner in the city. "We are at the table... decision makers on our territories." @Khelsilem
"You can't over-invest in public engagement" by every possible method. @KalenAnderson
Concepts and values that were repeated throughout: resilience, Indigenous, environmental, "social resilience," cohesive, integrated, holistic, context, public space (investments ahead of the market's curve), contain urban growth (UCB), paradigm shift...
University of Chicago Urbanism Professor Emily Talen’s book “Neighbourhood.” Ch9 Neighbourhoods and Segregation. “The final and most significant debate about the neighbourhood: its association with social segregation."
Most notorious was the redlining undertaken by the U.S. Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Authority. Incredibly, the agencies used an underwriting manual that called for investigating whether a neighbourhood had a mix of “incompatible” social and racial groups.
Neighbourhoods, University of Chicago Urbanism Prof Emily Talen.
For those living in the undefined expanse of contemporary urbanism that characterizes most North American cities, can the neighbourhood come to be more than a shaded area on a map?
"...written in support of those who believe neighbourhoods should be genuinely relevant in our lives... places that provide an essential context for daily life... identifiable, serviced, diverse, connected. Their primary purpose would not be social separation."
North America has been building + rebuilding cities + towns quite badly for more than half a century. To do it properly wld have been easy—we used to be great at it. But—like voting for president—just because something is easy to do does not mean that it will be done or done well
Cities "that are truly committed to a thriving centre realize city government must identify downtown housing as a key objective warranting investment + care” #ocp2020ycd
RULE 6: Cities should actively invest both money + staff time in creation of more attainable housing downtown
Time to take a hard look at the negative urban design consequences of the trend in both the public and private sectors to centralization and consolidation. Speck argues in #WalkableCityRules Part II Mix the Uses for Local schools and parks. #ocp2020ycd
Daniel Parolek, coauthor of the book Form-Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers, coined the term “Missing Middle” housing types. He’s an architect, urban designer, and the founding principal of @OpticosDesign
Missing Middle Housing types — such as duplexes, fourplexes, bungalow courts, to 3 and 4 storey buildings — can provide options along a spectrum of affordability.