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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 | |
