6 AOP Suba Area Flashcards
Traditional small towns feature these characteristics:
Incremental growth outward from a core
Long commute time for residents and staff.
Streets scaled for routine daily use rather than rush hour demand
Medium density
Corridor Planning
Refers to roadways, can be rail - waterways - greenways. Corridor planning can happen multi-national, multi-state, state, regional, or local level.
Corridor transportation planning
Occurs at the regional level.
Allows region’s governments and responsible agencies to coordinate major transportation planning projects.
identifies the long-range transportation needs along the corridor, evaluates alts, implements strategies.
Conducted most often by a Metro Planning Org (MPO)
National Corridor Planning
Integrated corridor management (ICM) - refers to efficient movement of people and goods through institutional collaboration and aggressive, proactive integration of existing infrastructure along major corridors
GOAL = corridors tobe managed as multimodal systems where operational decisions are made “For the benefit of the corridor as a whole”.
Scenic Corridor Planning
Federal Highway Admin developed National Scenic Byways Program in 1992 - purpose = designate & fund enhancements of scenic highways across the US.
Must have archaeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and/or scenic qualities.
Designation process - corridor management plan prepped - documents intrinsic qualities, identifies goals and strategies, includes an implementation timeline, & IDs responsible parties.
Greenways and Blueways Planning
Most effective at regional level.
Achieve these goals:
Protecting natural resources;
Providing alternative transportation options;
Connecting neighborhoods with recreational opportunities;
Promoting healthy communities;
Creating economic development opportunities.
Greenbelts
Undeveloped natural land areas set aside for the purposes of open space and rec - linking urban residents with nature
1st locally funded greenbelt in the US
1967 - Boulder - through increase in local sales tax
National heritage areas
Natural, cultural, historic resources combine to form a cohesive nationally important landscape.
Tourism Corridor Planning
Efforts to link social, cultural, and economic drivers between communities for the purposes of supporting tourism.
Urban growth boundaries
Geographic areas defined in plans or regulations as desirable and appropriate for growth during a defined time period - usually 20 years.
High priority for public infrastructure & services (encourages private investment)
History of neighborhood planning
Modern conception of neighb planning - traced to Chicago School sociologists in the early 1900s - Robert Park & E.W. Burgess.
& Neighborhood unit concept - Clarence Perry - 1920
What is a neighborhood?
Boundaries can be set for planning purposes based on roadways, rivers, or census boundaries.
Census tracts (average 4000 ppl) often used as a proxy for neighborhood.
Neighborhood planning
sub-city level of planning.
Same process as other types of planning.
Public participation key part of the process.
PROS:
Stakeholder engagement likely to be high / easier. Opportunity to be more specific & detailed about future goals.
CONS:
More limited focus
Fewer resources
Limited political influence
Can lead to a loss of objectivity in the process (strong ties to the stakeholders)
Downtown Planning
Major cities, small & midsized cities can all have downtown plans
Main Street Program
A subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been a popular way for planners to approach downtown revitalization in smaller towns. States are often a source of funds for downtown revitalization programs.
Edge City
A relatively new concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional urban area in what had recently been a suburb or rural community. The term was popularized in the 1991 book Edge City by Joel Garreau, who argued that edge cities were the new normal of urban growth worldwide. Garreau established five rules for a place to be considered an edge city:
1. It must have more than five million square feet of office space to accommodate between 20,000 to 50,000 office workers (as many as some traditional downtowns);
2. It must have more than 600,000 square feet of retail space, the size of a medium shopping mall. This ensures that the edge city is a center of recreation and commerce as well as office work;
3. It must be characterized by more jobs than bedrooms;
4. It must be perceived by the population as one place;
5. It must have been nothing like a city 30 years earlier.
