PL599 : The Class : Creating Character : Using Focal Points : Readings

Readings

The readings are categorized by the following topics that can become focal points and attractive forces in a community: tourism, historic preservation, design and zoning, art/culture (sense of place), housing design/traditional neighborhood design and transportation (there are many possible foci, these are only a few). Select the topic of interest to you and enjoy! Read at least 3 of the papers and sites, more if you are reading news articles.You might want to print out the readings list and readings if you would like to read up on more items after the course is over. The course readings will go offline at the library reserves after finals week.

Tourism:

http://www.uneptie.org/pc/tourism/sust-tourism/home.htm Site of sustainable tourism.

http://paria.az.blm.gov This site was created by graduate students for Pam Foti, one of the Parks and Recreation professors. It is pretty user-friendly. Sites like this could easily be used by communities to tout their character.

http://www.flagguide.com/mainstreet/ this is Flagstaff's Mainstreet site

Tourism Planning. M Kelly.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ttri/pdf/conference/raj%20razaq.pdf Festival tourism and cultural impacts.

Department of Economic and Social Affairs Commission on Sustainable Development United Nations Development Program Seventh Session 19-30 April 1999, New York TOURISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM Background Paper #1 Prepared by the World Travel and Tourism Organization and International Hotel and Restaurant Association

http://www.tourism.govt.nz/tourism-toolkit/ Tourism planning toolkit from New Zealand.

Historic Preservation:

http://www.nationaltrust.org/ National Trust for Historic Preservation site.

http://www.achp.gov This advisory council site has information on federal, state, and tribal programs.

Cullingworth ch.9

Baer, William. 1995. When Old Buildings Ripen for Historic Preservation: A Predictive Approach to Planning. Journal of the American Planning Association, 61:1, pp. 82-94.

Boyer, Christine. 1992. Cities for Sale: Merchandising History at South Street Seaport. In Variations on a Theme Park, edited by Michael Sorkin, pp. 181-204.

Hodder, Robert. 1996. Savannah’s Changing Past: Historic Preservation Planning And the Social Construction of a Historic Landscape, 1955-1985. In Planning the Twentieth-Century American City, edited by M. Sies and C. Silver, pp. 361-382.

De Oliver, Miguel. 1996. Historical Preservation and Identity: The Alamo and the Production of a Consumer Landscape. Antipode 28:1, pp. 1-23.

Design Professionals and the Built Environment ch 21.

Cultural/Art/Sense of Place

Lewis, Pierce. 1998. The Challenge of the Ordinary: Preservation and the Cultural Landscape. Historic Preservation Forum, winter, pp. 18-28.

De Oliver, Miguel. 1996. Historical Preservation and Identity: The Alamo and the Production of a Consumer Landscape. Antipode 28:1, pp. 1-23.

Design Professionals and the Built Environment ch.27

http://www.cachh.org Civic art and design to bring cultures together in Houston and Harris County.

http://www.broward.org/arts/pad/publicarts.htm Public art and design paid for by new construction, to create a sense of place. Take the public arts tour.

Main Street Revisited. http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1041/5_78/61755502/p1/article.jhtml

The Quest for a Sense of Place (Seattle) http://www.djc.com/special/development2000/copeland.html

Public Art in the Urban Landscape http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1555/public_art.html

http://www.ijele.com/ijele/vol2.1/marschall.html Paper of South African mural art that ties into community and social change.

This was a difficult section to fill, especially in relation to minority cultures' impact on planning. This would be a great topic for a thesis!!! (hint)

Housing/ Design/TND:

http://www.hud.gov/cpd/ocv/cpdhp.html HUD office of community planning and development.

Environmental House Building http://oikos.com/esb/40/ecohouse.html

Straw Bale Construction in the Rockies and Front Range.http://www.moxvox.com/straw.html Good info links here.

Federal Rural Self-help Housing http://www.ruralhome.org/pubs/selfhelp/selfhelp/selfhelp.htm

Cohousing has been gaining attention in the past 10 years. It is a way of creating a close-knit community of similar values. Remember utopias??

Cohousing project in California (solar).http://home.pacbell.net/tncoho

http://www.hundredfoldfarm.org Rural cohousing project.

Celebration, Disney's NTD community in Florida. http://www.celebrationfl.com/ This is an award-winning town.

http://www.preservenet.com/politics/NewUrb.html This is a must-see site for new urbanists.It links up great sites for you. Note the Ahwahnee Principles, traditional neighborhood zoning ordinances, government orgs, and firms sites available through this link. Read the A. Principles, and look over the ordinance information then try other links.

http://www.cnu.org Site that links several new urbanist projects.

Design Professionals and the Built Environment ch 17.

Transportation:

Fielding, Gordon and Daniel Klein. 1997. Hot Lanes: Introducing Congestion-Pricing One Lane at a Time. Access 11:11-15.

Delucci, Mark. 2000. Should We Try To Get The Prices Right? Access 16:14-21.

Shaheen, Susan. 1999. Pooled Cars. Access 15:20-25.

Bardach, Eugene, et. al. 1999. Partners in Transit. Access 15:14-19.

Cervero, Robert, et. al. 2002. Transportation as a Stimulus of Welfare-to-Work. Journal of Planning Education and Research 22:50-63.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/smartgrowth Austin, TX's smart growth initiative. This includes transportation.

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