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Green Design at Any Size:
Urban Heat Island Effect and Transit-Oriented Development
Presented at the 2008 Rail~volution
national planning conference, San Francisco, CA.
This presentation provides an
overview of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect and its implications
for higher-density, transit-oriented environments. Included are
case studies and guidelines developed for a range of cities to
not only mitigate the effects of the UHI effect but also create
more livable, attractive, and comfortable places.
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(pdf format)
Urban Heat Island
Effect Presentation (7.7 MB)
The Residential Hotel as a
Re-emerging Housing Type
Presented at the 2004 Rail~volution
national planning conference, Los Angeles, CA.
This presentation reviews the
history of residential hotels in the United States, from "palace"
hotels like the Waldorf-Astoria to more modest and ubiquitous
lodging houses. It further considers the potential for the re-emergence
of hotels with residential components - something that is already
happening in the market in a variety of forms.
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Residential Hotels
Presentation (5.2 MB)
Best Marketing Practices for
Large-Scale Mixed Use Developments
Prepared for the Addis Group
This memorandum was prepared
to provide an overview of "best practices" for marketing
and branding of large-scale mixed use developments. While prepared
for a specific project, it provides guidelines that can be applied
to a range of settings.
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format)
Mixed Use Best Practices Memorandum (1.41
MB)
Bay Area Pedestrian-Oriented
Thoroughfares "Virtual Tour"
Prepared with Urbsworks, Inc.,
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, and Strategic Economics
This tour provides examples of
thoroughfares that accommodate relatively high traffic volumes
while also providing a pedestrian-friendly environment.
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(Powerpoint in pdf format)
Thoroughfares Virtual Tour (4.29 MB)
Suburban Mixed Use Development
Approaches Tour
Presented at the American
Planning Association's 2005 National Planning Conference
This tour allows one to compare
large-scale contemporary suburban mixed use developments that
use different planning and urban design approaches. The emphasis
is an understanding of how urban design and architecture play
significant roles in creating successful, coherent, mixed-use
development and "place-making," but how they cannot
make up for shortcomings in site planning.
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format)
1 Santana Row, San Jose (5.3 MB)
2 Metro Center, Foster City (1.6 MB)
3 Bridgepointe, San Mateo (448 KB)
4 Park Place at Bay Meadows, San Mateo
(1.3 MB)
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