Booked on Planning

Just over a year after we recorded our first comprehensive plan episode from a book published in 2000 we returned with authors David Rouse and Rocky Piro to talk about their latest book The Comprehensive Plan: sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities for the 21st century. This book is a great read for emerging planners, but also fills the gap in literature for seasoned planners looking for guidance on how to improve sustainability, equity, and resilience in their own plans.

• The PAS Report, Sustaining Places Best Practices, that was mentioned in the beginning of the episode as the foundation for this book
• An article on planning for health that was a topic mentioned on the episode
• We mentioned an earlier episode also on comprehensive plans called Community Planning 
• Get a copy of the book at Routledge Press.

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In this episode we talk about the New Econ 101, a 2015 collection of four articles highlighting innovative economic approaches pulled together by Next City. The topics covered include utilizing co-ops to bolster underrepresented economies, a comparison of top down versus grass-roots urban district redevelopment in Kansas City, anchor institutes deploying a social design type approach to neighborhood development and civic engagement, and utilizing accelerator programs to drive hardware innovation.

• Download your copy of the article and check out all the great other articles available at Next City
• Curious about Community Benefit Agreements? Check out this toolkit from Local Initiatives support Corporation

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Anchor institutions have been around in our cities for a long time, but innovation districts, a more intentional approach, is somewhat new. In this episode we talk with author Matt Enstice about his book City Forward which gets into the details of how to use innovation districts to support the neighboring community in an equitable way. Matt is uniquely situated to provide insight into how innovation districts and anchor institutions, if they take the time to build trust, can have a positive impact given his role as the President and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus innovation district. 

• Pick up a copy of City Forward from Island Press: https://islandpress.org/books/city-forward 
• The Rise of Innovation Districts, a Brookings Institute article
• World Economic Forum
• E For All
• David Gambel’s book mentioned in the show is Idea City: How to Make Boston More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient and is coming out in June 2023
• Talking Cities with Matt Enstice: a podcast where Matt talks with guests on innovation in cities to help them become healthier, vibrant, and more sustainable.

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Since 2015, the Island Press Urban Resilience Project (URP) has worked to imagine and inspire the sustainable, equitable, resilient cities of the future. The project brings together thought leaders with a broad range of expertise to generate and cross-pollinate ideas. Those ideas are then shared via articles, op-eds, and interviews that are published in prominent online and print media outlets. A compilation of the project’s 2022 work, Resilience Matters: Collective Action for Healthier Communities, was the focus of our first “article” episode. This season we’re adding in shorter episodes where we talk about an article we came across that we think you will find useful. What better way to start this series than with a compilation of dozens of great articles?

• Project website: www.islandpress.org/URP
• Free book download: www.islandpress.org/resilience
• A few articles were by author Bill Fulton, a recent guest on the showing talking more in depth about Place and Prosperity

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The ideal city, a utopia of sorts, has been the goal of America since its founding. First we immigrated to find freedom to thrive in the new world, then we moved west to find it on the open frontier, we left cities for the suburban utopia, and finally, we redeveloped our blighted urban cores to create it from within. With each period in our history, we have attempted to create the ideal mix of town and country, but author Alex Krieger ends his book City on a Hill which covers all this and more with a hope that this pursuit “should continue to lose luster.” Listen to the end to hear Alex’s response to why he wrapped up a book on our endless pursuit of this goal in this manner.

Links:

• In the Boston Globe, read Krieger (with Matthew Kiefer) on the city’s new “gilded age”
• At the New York Daily News, read Krieger’s unpacking of the idea of the “American Dream”—on the occasion of a “destination” shopping mall of the same name’s grand opening in the New Jersey Meadowlands 
• Buy a copy of City on a Hill at the Harvard University Press

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In 2012, Jeff’s book sounded the alarm that cars are the central problem of American life, and that making downtown more walkable is the necessary fix for the typical American City. Ten years later, following COVID, the rise of ride share, and the escalating climate crisis, Speck returned with a 10th Anniversary edition that assesses the impacts of these events and the changes that have taken place since the original book was published.

Links:

• Walkable City Rules: Jeff’s deep dive book from 2018 with more details on how to design walkable cities
• Human Transit is a book by Jarett Walker referenced in the show
• Jeff mentioned his article “Secretary Pete’s safe streets plan won’t succeed if engineers continue business as usual” published in The Hill 
• Transport Politic is a blog by Yonah Freemark mentioned during the episode 
• Public Square: Carmel Indiana Plan for Office Park Redesign is an example of one of Jeff's projects to create a more walkable area from a former office complex
• Jeff’s website has videos, projects, and a newsroom and is a wealth of resources

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In 2012, Jeff’s book sounded the alarm that cars are the central problem of American life, and that making downtown more walkable is the necessary fix for the typical American City. Ten years later, following COVID, the rise of ride share, and the escalating climate crisis, Speck returned with a 10th Anniversary edition that assesses the impacts of these events and the changes that have taken place since the original book was published.

Links:

• Walkable City Rules: Jeff’s deep dive book from 2018 with more details on how to design walkable cities
• Human Transit is a book by Jarett Walker referenced in the show
• Jeff mentioned his article “Secretary Pete’s safe streets plan won’t succeed if engineers continue business as usual” published in The Hill 
• Transport Politic is a blog by Yonah Freemark mentioned during the episode 
• Public Square: Carmel Indiana Plan for Office Park Redesign is an example of one of Jeff's projects to create a more walkable area from a former office complex
• Jeff’s website has videos, projects, and a newsroom and is a wealth of resources

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As individuals we need to be aware that we experience place all the time and that we have the power to shape how we experience place. We need to be intentional with economic development to ensure our places are prosperous and prosperous in an enduring way. Place and prosperity does not always go together, but regions with strong place characteristics bounce back quicker and facilitate prosperity.

Links:

• Listeners can take 20% off the book with the code FULTON on Island Press’s website at https://islandpress.org/books/place-and-prosperity

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Segregation was not solely an individual invention, but was supported by government actions like housing policy and “if it’s unconstitutional, then we have an obligation to remedy it.” 

Links:

• The Planning Commissioner podcast: mentioned during one of Jennifer’s follow up comments
• Segregated by Design: Short film narrated by Richard Rothstein
• Just Action: pre-order site
• Short review of the book from a planning blog

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Behind every successful city is thoughtful planning for the future, but it’s not enough to just plan for the future of communities, we also need to plan with the future. We need to image what the future might look like to shape it in a responsible, sustainable, and equitable way. The past few years have taught us change can happen rapidly, whether we are prepared or not. While no one could have predicted the impacts of the global pandemic, it taught us planning for a variety of future scenarios is key to being able to respond quickly when they happen. We also can clearly see now that we should start planning for a hybrid world, not just the built environment as we always have. Planners are uniquely situated for this work, having spent decades projecting populations and growth patterns in comprehensive plans. We talk about all this and more in this episode with Petra Hurtado, Research Director at the American Planning Association. Listen to the end to hear her take on what’s the next big idea poised to impact the world of planning.

Links:

• Planning's Foresight Resource Page: https://www.planning.org/foresight/
• 2022 Trend Report: https://www.planning.org/publications/document/9228382/ 

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