Download or read book The Roosevelt Neighborhood in Seattle Washington as a Case Study for the Importance of Preserving and Creating Affordable Housing in Transportation oriebted Developments written by Isaac Edward Robb and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Download or read book Imagine Boston 2030 written by City Of Boston and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Boston is in a uniquely powerful position to make our city more affordable, equitable, connected, and resilient. We will seize this moment to guide our growth to support our dynamic economy, connect more residents to opportunity, create vibrant neighborhoods, and continue our legacy as a thriving waterfront city.Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Imagine Boston 2030 is the first citywide plan in more than 50 years. This vision was shaped by more than 15,000 Boston voices.
Download or read book Case Studies in the Process of Integration in Neighborhoods of Seattle Washington written by Greater Seattle Housing Council. Research Committee and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook written by William Klein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Smarter written by Robert D. Bullard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that isolate low-income populations. Growing Smarter is one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective, examining the effect of the built environment on access to economic opportunity and quality of life in American cities and metropolitan regions. The contributors to Growing Smarter—urban planners, sociologists, economists, educators, lawyers, health professionals, and environmentalists—all place equity at the center of their analyses of "place, space, and race." They consider such topics as the social and environmental effects of sprawl, the relationship between sprawl and concentrated poverty, and community-based regionalism that can link cities and suburbs. They examine specific cases that illustrate opportunities for integrating environmental justice concerns into smart growth efforts, including the dynamics of sprawl in a South Carolina county, the debate over the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and transportation-related pollution in Northern Manhattan. Growing Smarter illuminates the growing racial and class divisions in metropolitan areas today—and suggests workable strategies to address them.
Download or read book An Analysis of Historic Preservation and Affordable Housing Incentives in Seattle s Chinatown International District written by Brian P. Kalthoff and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis investigates the financial, social and political impacts of the historic preservation and affordable housing incentives that are available to historically significant buildings in the Chinatown - International District of Seattle. The research aims to provide insight as to the effectiveness of these incentives in achieving the goal of rehabilitating buildings and providing affordable housing, while meeting the objectives of the current owners. Attention is given to the ownership structure of the subject buildings, with a particular focus on Chinese family associations. This paper includes a detailed account of the neighborhood's complex social and political history, as well as a study of the evolution of its built form, as these continue to influence the neighborhood today. The research was informed by a review of primary and secondary source material and by a series of confidential interviews with neighborhood property owners, city of Seattle employees, housing developers and a variety of community stakeholders. One significant finding is that many incentives are undesirable to individual property owners, Chinese family associations and other forms of collective ownership entities. As such, they have a weakened impact on potential historic building rehabilitation. This gap in accessing these incentives is due to a combination of factors, including risk aversion, conflict with ownership goals, inflexible incentive guidelines and the significant policy-driven barrier of entry to access the incentives. These issues are compounded by market forces that indicate that prevailing neighborhood rents often will not support non-subsidized rehabilitation projects. Meanwhile, appreciating costs and below-market rents are turning some of the under-used buildings into potential liabilities to their owners as costs begin to exceed rents. This combination of factors should compel policy-makers to reconsider the current incentive structure and other public policies that influence the International District.
Download or read book An Update on the Low income Housing Stock in Downtown Seattle written by Seattle (Wash.). Housing and Neighborhood Development Division and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Point written by Tom Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task: transform a 120-acre, run-down, high-crime, isolated, low-income housing project into a thriving, safe, healthy, mixed-income community with public and market rate housing, and shared green spaces and a street network linking the neighborhood together as well as to the surrounding community. Today, Seattle's High Point is an internationally acclaimed model of green, mixed-income development. In the beginning, however, it was a visionary and highly risky experiment that would require strong leadership, grit, and determination to make it a reality. Enter Tom Phillips, the urban planner who agreed to take on High Point. The story follows his team's journey from inception to completion, navigating the myriad needs and expectations of a broad range of stakeholders, from government agencies to the design team, contractors, residents, and the broader community, all while keeping his eye on the greater vision and expanding it to include green building and design, at the time a new and fairly radical concept. Throw into the mix the 2008 housing crisis and the subsequent economic recession, and the result is a highly instructive and entertaining narrative filled with wisdom, insight, and lessons learned. It is also, most importantly, a critical, as well as celebratory, look back 18 years from the project's inception, to ponder what worked and what was learned to inform and inspire the next generation who are engaged with the transformation of communities.
Download or read book Overcoming Resistance to Density and Desegregation in Seattle written by Elizabeth Benko and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the civil rights activism of the late 1960s, Seattle has moved toward greater equity along racial lines, but a variety of factors are still holding the city back from full integration. Socioeconomic constructs based on the discriminatory laws of the last century have combined with the persistence of racial biases and resistance to integration in affluent neighborhoods to keep segregation alive in Seattle. Furthermore, the low density nature of Seattle's urban environment has exacerbated the problems of segregation and obscured the wealth gap from affluent communities. The lack of viable public transportation has only reinforced the city's strong residual patterns of racial segregation, restricting access by lower-income racial minority populations to higher quality housing, city services and cultural attractions. In my thesis, I propose a high-density transit-oriented development (TOD) project that seeks to promote a more racially integrated urban environment through well-established principles of successful urbanism and innovative residential mixing strategies. I have selected a full block site within the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle which is slated for development as a part of the construction of Roosevelt's light rail station. This site is ideal for a mixed-income, mixed-use, TOD program because it is a zero displacement site in a development ready neighborhood that is already somewhat socioeconomically diverse. My proposal includes residential clustering ideas to promote successful neighboring amongst a variety of resident populations, commercial functions that support job training and novel models of community learning exchange, and a combination of public and private space to facilitate both resident neighboring and neighborhood interactions.
Download or read book Transit supportive Density written by Seattle (Wash.). Department of Planning and Development and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Residential Suburbs written by David L. Ames and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapidride Roosevelt Seattle WA Environmental Assessment written by Seattle (Wash.). Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental assessment (EA) evaluates the impacts associated with the construction and operation of the RapidRide Roosevelt Project, a bus rapid transit line as proposed by the City of Seattle Department of Transportation in partnership with King County Metro (KCM). KCM has named the route the Rapid Ride J Line per their standard route naming conventions, and the name J Line will be phased in to future outreach materials. The purpose of the Project is to improve transit travel times, reliability, and capacity to increase high-frequency, all-day transit service and enhance transit connections between Downtown Seattle and five neighborhoods (Belltown, South Lake Union, Eastlake, University District, and Roosevelt). The Project would also improve pedestrian and bicycle connections and access to RapidRide stations and would improve safety for both nonmotorized and motorized travelers along the corridor. The construction period would be up to 2 years and would be phased in work zones to minimize impacts. --
Download or read book Case Study written by Elizabeth Erling Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pike/Pine corridor is a vibrant, densely populated area within the greater Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. The area has distinct architectural character due to its history as Seattle's auto-row. After much of the auto industry left the area, a number of the buildings that previously housed automobile-related businesses were converted into affordable artist lofts. Concurrently, Seattle's LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) community established itself on Capitol Hill. In the 1990s, the area became the center for grunge music. Low rents made Pike/Pine an attractive area for young entrepreneurs to experiment, and as a result, the area came to boast a diverse mix of gritty, unique businesses that contribute to a distinct local character. In the past decade, there has been extensive real estate development activity in Pike/Pine. In 2009, Seattle created the city's first conservation district in Pike/Pine in an attempt to manage change and protect neighborhood character. There is a public perception that the neighborhood is gentrifying and that its quirkiness and grittiness are being diluted. Working within the academic context of gentrification and neighborhood character, this work presents four redevelopment projects in Pike/Pine in order to clarify the phenomenon that people are observing and evaluate the efficacy of the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District (PPCOD) as a tool to preserve neighborhood character.
Download or read book Recommended Roosevelt Neighborhood Plan written by Roosevelt Neighborhood Association and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 221 d 3 and 236 Housing in the Seattle Area written by Seattle Housing Development and published by . This book was released on 1971* with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charter of the New Urbanism written by Congress for the New Urbanism and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An agenda for thriving urban centers, the San Francisco-based Congress for the New Urbanism is a leading force for modern design that encourages viable neighborhoods, conserves natural environments, and preserves our architectural heritage. Charter of the New Urbanism introduces you to the work of the world-class planners, architects and other professionals who are making the new urbanism happen. Charter contributors, including Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and Liz Moule, explain strategies that range from large-scale, regional, to small-scale: blocks, streets and buildings. Revealing case studies help you understand the impact of geography, economics,development and urban patterns, public and private uses, transportation and pedestrian access, housing, building densities and land uses, codes, parks, shared use, safety, preservation and renewal, community identity and much more in this invaluable resource for design professionals.
