Links to PowerPoint presentations on techniques for creating -- or preserving -- transportation-efficient communities are provided below.
Breaking the Code: 12 Code Obstacles to Smart Growth & How Cities Can Remove Them
A presentation by Jeffrey Tumlin of Nelson/Nygaard at the 2005 Rail~Volution Conference in Salt Lake City. This presentation addresses parking and traffic regulations, building and fire codes, the Clean Water Act, state requirements for school sites, congestion management, road design, street typologies, and impact fees.
Improving Mobility While Meeting the Climate Change Challenge
A presentation by Michael Replogle, Transportation Director, Environmental Defense, to the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and Oregon Department of Transportation on November 19, 2007
Land Use and Transportation Smart Planning
A Smart Growth web site developed by the New York State Department of Transportation as a primer on smart-growth principles in transportation planning. The site includes a power point presentation, Smart Growth and Transportation.
Monmouth, Oregon: Toward a Thriving Downtown
A presentation by Tim Smith, Director of Urban Design of SERA, a Portland, Oregon-based architectural firm, at the June 30, 2007 workshop in Monmouth, Oregon, sponsored by the City of Monmouth and the Oregon Transportation and Growth Management Program (TGM).
Moving Forward Together -- Smart Growth Conference in Eugene, Oregon
Power Point Presentations at the June 11, 2008 Moving Forward Together conference on smart growth, held in Eugene, Oregon, and sponsored by the Oregon Transportation & Growth Management Program (TGM) in partnership with the National Association of Realtors, Oregon Association of Realtors, Eugene Association of Realtors, Cottage Grove and Springfield Boards of Realtors, Cities of Eugene and Springfield, and Lane Transit District. See links to presentations by John Fregonese, Skip Rotticci, Bob McNamara, Joe Cortright, Reid Ewing, and Governor Parris Glendening
Narrow Residential Streets
Local Residential Streets, a presentation by Matthew Crall, planner at Oregon Transportation & Growth Management Program (TGM) on July 26, 2007
Parking
A Presentation by Donald Shoup (Part 1, Part 2) author of The High Cost of Free Parking, at a forum sponsored by the Oregon Transportation & Growth Management Program in Eugene, Oregon, on February 5, 2007
During a recent visit to New York city, Professor Shoup discussed parking policies using Matchbox cars on a miniature street grid to illustrate his points. Shoup argues that charging higher fees for curbside parking would free up more parking space, reduce congestion-causing cruising and generate funds for local street improvement projects.
Promoting Safe Walking & Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons from Europe
A presentation by John Pucher, professor of urban planning at the Rutgers University Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, made on April 2, 2007 at the University of Louisville (KY) School or Urban and Public Affairs
Smart Growth
Presentations made at Moving Forward Together, a smart-growth conference held on June 11, 2008 by the Oregon Transportation & Growth Management Program (TGM) with the National, Oregon, Eugene, Springfield, and Cottage Grove Associations of Realtors, and the Cities of Eugene and Springfield
PowerPoint Presentations at Smart Growth Online on such topics as transportation, density, land use, and active living. (Type "PowerPoint Presentations" in the "search" box.)
Power Point Presentations from the 2008 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, held on Feb. 7-9, 2008, in Washington, D. C.
Station Area Planning
A presentation by Jeffrey Tumlin of Nelson/Nygaard at the 2007 Rail-Volution Conference
Transit Oriented Development in Medford, Oregon
Otak presentation, "Medford West Main Street Transit-Oriented Development Principles," made on December 14, 2006 to City Council/Planning Commission
Transportation and the Carbon Challenge
Transportation and the Carbon Challenge was the theme of the Congress for New Urbanism's Transportation Summit held on November 12-14, 2007 in London. Here is a link to several power point presentations delivered by new urbanist experts at the conference. They cover such topics as the UK manual for streets and design codes, a liveable neighborhood code, great streets by design, traffic engineering as if streets matter, and other subjects. The summit was held in London at the invitation of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.
TGM: Better Ways to Better Places
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