Oklahoma Creative Communities March 2016

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OU Institute for Quality CommunitiesShane Hampton

QUALITY COMMUNITIES Support creativity through the built environment, starting with the tent city.

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INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY COMMUNITIES OU College of Architecture

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A Quality Community civic engagement

public health social ties

economic opportunity education

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The built environment is so important to the kind of future we want to craft.

OU President David L. Boren

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THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT public spaces

streets infrastructure landscapes buildings

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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs

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First life, then spaces, then buildings. The other way around never works. Jan Gehl

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It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. William H. Whyte

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Streets have been the places where children first learned about the world, where neighbors met, the social centers of towns and cities Donald Appleyard

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Every time we change Oklahomas built

environment, there is an opportunity to enhance our health, social ties,

and economy.

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AN EXAMPLE

The Street

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Main Street Right-of-Way

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Number of Lanes

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Width of Lanes

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Parking

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Traffic

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Traffic Per Lane

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Catering to fast-moving regional traffic degrades

the main street experience for those who

spend their time and money in a community.

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Is it worth it to narrow or remove a lane of traffic to

make cars flow more slowly along our most

treasured, unique, interesting streets?

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(Yes)

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District 125k vehicles/day4 lanesFast trafficPoor walkability

41%

22%

75%

District 214k vehicles/day2 lanesFast trafficPoor walkability

District 38k vehicles/day2 lanesSlower trafficGreat walkability

How often do you visit more than one business in a trip to this area?

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Where do you start when the challenge is big?

Lessons from the Tactical Urbanists

IQC Photos: CBS Pittsburgh, Streetsblog, Baltimore Brew

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StART NORMAN Artists, non-profits, and OU students reuse an abandoned lumberyard and test a new design for Main Street.

IQC Photos: Better Block OKC; Streetsblog Chicago

IQC Photos: Bloomberg Business, Esquire

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INTERIM DESIGN

Photo: NACTO

IQC Photos: @dongho_chang

IQC Photo: Dongho Chang

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Whats your ultimate goal? Whats the tent city version?

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Oklahoma Creative Communities March 2016

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