The following is a list of books, articles, or websites with information about urban planning. Books can be borrowed from SN members. The list can be sorted by category by clicking on the "Sort" header in the first column and then selecting "A-Z".
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| Topic | Region | Resource | Of Note |
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| Impacts | Smart Growth Environmental Impacts | ||
| Impacts | High Density Development Myth vs Fact booklet | ||
| New Urbanism | New Urbanism - Peter Calthorpe vs Lars Lerup (Michigan Debates on Urbanism 2005) | Book | |
| Land Use | The Urban Design Handbook (Urban Design Asscs 2003) | Book | |
| Impacts | Visualizing Density (Lincoln Inst. of Land Use Policy 2007) | Book | |
| New Urbanism | Creating Walkable Places (Urban Land Institute 2006) | Book | |
| New Urbanism | Place Making - Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages (Urban Land Inst. 2002) | Book | |
| Transportation | Lincoln Land Institute article on light rail vs commuter rail | ||
| New Urbanism | CNU projects database | Database of "New Urbanist" projects around US, world | |
| New Urbanism | Charter of the New Urbanism | Defines guiding principles for "New Urbanist" development, including parks, walkability, transit hubs. | |
| VMU | NC Austin | Allandale VMU articles 2006-2007 | |
| Austin projects | Austin | Riverside planning process | |
| Austin projects | NC Austin | The Village VMU project | |
| Austin projects | Austin | Urban Austin | links to emerging development projects |
| Transportation | Central Texas | Austin traffic counts | From CAMPO, the regional transportation planning entity |
| VMU | Austin | City of Austin VMU site | Includes maps with VMU properties identified |
| Austin growth | Central Texas | ECT resources page | Includes ECT vision for Central Texas |
| Transportation | NC Austin | Capmetro | "Robust" transit solution proposed for Burnet Rd |
| Transportation | Central Texas | CAMPO 2035 Plan | The Central Texas regional comprehensive transportation plan. Highlights include proposed widening of Anderson Ln. |
| Austin growth | Austin | City of Austin growth tracking page | Includes map of emerging projects, demo and permits data |
| Austin growth | Austin | City of Austin GIS viewer | A powerful tool for researching Austin properties, zoning, dev cases |
| Austin growth | Austin | City of Austin zoning and development resources | Includes access to site plans, City ordinances, GIS and floodplain tools |
| Transportation | Austin | Austin bike routes map | |
| Austin growth | Austin | M1EK's Bake-Sale of Bile blog | Love or hate him, it's hard to ignore Mike Dahmus and his opinions on Austin growth and transit |
| Transportation | Austin | Austin Street Smarts Task Force | City of Austin program to improve bicycle routes |
| Land use | LA Times article on live-work | This would be great on Burnet | |
| Land use | "Plain English" review of Oakland live-work ordinance | ||
| Austin growth | Austin | City Code | |
| Transportation | Federal transit database | ||
| Transportation | Thoreau Institute "Myth of Vanishing Automobile" blog | Uber-libertarian take on transportation and urban planning. (Hence name of new website - "The Antiplanner") | |
| Transportation | Transit ridership data | From Thoreau Institute, based on federal data | |
| Impacts | Density environmental impacts calculator | ||
| Land Use | Austin | Watershed ordinance map | NC Austin is in the Shoal Creek watershed, subject to the Urban Watershed Ordinance |
| Land Use | Austin | Watershed applicability chart | |
| VMU | NC Austin | Rosedale VMU blog | |
| Impacts | Carbon footprint calculator at carbonfootprint.com | According to this calculator, someone commuting every workday from Cedar Park to downtown (11,040 miles/year at 25mpg) generates 3.8 tons of carbon a year. | |
| Impacts | Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems | Austin-based green construction non-profit consutancy | |
| Open space | Project for Public Spaces | Numerous resources on importance of and effective use of public open space | |
| Walkability | Walkscore.com | Allegedly measures pedestrian-friendliness, by calculating distances to parks, schools, and coffee houses. Allandale gets a "somewhat walkable" score. | |
| Programs | Stimulus Watch | This site lets ordinary citizens vote on the criticality of potential Federal spending projects. | |
| Austin Projects | NC Austin | Stimulus Watch - Burnet Rd sidewalks | Proposed federal project for sidewalks on Burnet Rd |
| Area Projects | Austin | Stimulus Watch - bicycle improvements | Vote for federal funding to improve Austin bike routes |
| Area Projects | NC Austin | Stimulus Watch - rails and trails | Vote for bike/ped trails along CapMetro's commuter line |
| Land Use | LEED Neighborhood Development | Rating system for designing sustainable neighborhoods | |
| Open Space | Austin | City parks projects from 2006 Bond Package | Map shows no new pocket parks near NC Austin corridors |
| Open Space | Austin | PARD long-range plan | |
| Transportation | National Household Travel Survey | Includes data on trips per day, by category | |
| New Urbanism | Austin | Central Texas Congress for New Urbanism | |
| Transportation | Study of European LR and urban density patterns | Data are in metric system, but appear to indicate typical density within 1000' of LR line of about 8 units/ac. | |
| Transportation | Rapid Bus ridership study | Compares speed and ridership for rapid bus vs regular bus | |
| Transportation | DOT paper on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) | Of interest to those trying to fathom MetroRapid on Burnet and Lamar. | |
| Urban Planning | Urban Places and Spaces Blog | Has extensive list of resources on transportation, urban planning | |
| Open Space | Austin | See attached doc at end of page. This lays out goals of an organization looking to make Austin's public spaces more attractive. | |
| Transportation | Brookings Report on Vehicle-Miles-Traveled | VMT has actually been declining in the US since 2006 | |
| Family-Friendly Design | Familty-friendly design article | Cornell article laying out case for family-friendly design | |
| Transportation | Austin | SNAPP Austin, TX (SNAPPatx) blog | Lots of good articles on walking, biking, mass transit |
| Open Space | How to acquire innovative urban parks | Includes discussion of retention pond double-use | |
| Impacts | Waste water costs - suburban vs urban | Study of waste water costs in Cleveland and Chicago, attempting to quantify in tangible way whether residential density matters in cost of municipal services | |
| Affordable Housing | Austin | Ed Wendler slide showing costs of different housing types | |
| Transportation | Trade-offs of owning car vs car-sharing service | Surveys of car-sharing members reported in a Transportation Research Board (TRB) report on car-sharing indicated an average of about 6100 miles/yr. Car-sharing.net suggests 7500 miles/yr, and I've also seen lit stating 10,000 miles/yr. | |
| Family-friendliness | Family-friendliness and urban competitiveness | In the next decade advantages will also fall to family-friendly regions, particularly as the current crop of millennial-generation graduates starts entering en masse their family-forming years. These factors, more than hipness or dense urbanity, may well be more influential in determining which regions do best in the ongoing war for talent. | |
| Land Use | Austin | Preferred Growth Scenario Schematic Map | Shows approximate proposed density in Comp Plan |
| Land Use | Austin | 1/5/11 version of Preferred Growth Scenario schematic map | |
| Land Use | Family-oriented infill housing in Portland | Great article on family-friendly development in urban context | |
| Land Use | Portland guidelines for family-friendly development | ||
| Open space | Urban tree care | ||
| Open Space | Austin | Map of park gaps in Austin's urban core | |
| Impacts | Austin | Online form to report grafitti |
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