Urban Renewal - LBK

Urban Renewal

Articles of interest

on Redlining and Segregation (Early Urban Renewal Failures)

Housing Segregation and Redlining in America (NPR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0oH4zHkq4skQ3gUxAhz-_JnGcOhQ2XIZ7djvZdj3tu2wk1t0BjLSY-oAw

How Urban Planning is a tool of white supremacy: https://www.fastcompany.com/90533678/how-urban-planning-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy?partner=feedburner&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=Compass&utm_campaign=eem524%3A524%3As00%3A07%2F29%2F2020_fc&utm_content=feedburner&cid=eem524%3A524%3As00%3A07%2F29%2F2020_fc&fbclid=IwAR1zlxpeRSkJ58SUyfpiHdGOHMOwBDZEHew26x9JCeaz0ox0ir_vNQHPZPE

…on Lubbock’s Plans

2004 North & East Lubbock Masterplan: https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/storage/images/xnsJQaDd7wsUPfsljoc7eLlfGQJZ3rkgZw8MvF92.pdf

2008 Downtown Revitalization Plan (PSC): https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/storage/images/Mr2rCgL77WBmXc1kY26AvdZVZOaAEcF1z6wOvxjR.pdf

2005 Overton Revitalization Plan: https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/storage/images/c67DbRGfclV1LtxN6lgLtFLC12gZ6c1z1mB3Q3O1.pdf

2018 - Lubbock’s 2040 Plan: https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/storage/images/qLXKeIyOZxc7Ke4ByQxiYk8ropy5RPZOoTvyEqC2.pdf

Lubbock Comprehensive Plans: https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/departments/planning/comprehensive-plans

Urban Design & Historic Preservation (Links): https://ps.ci.lubbock.tx.us/departmental-websites/departments/planning/boards-and-commissions/urban-design-and-historic-preservation

Design Guidelines & Revitalization Plans (Lubbock): https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/departments/planning/design-guidelines

Design Guidelines (Downtown): https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/storage/images/7FXfFGwpgupYgcwYH0ZYwEHWzpItD6sBvuNSCH51.pdf

Site Design Guidelines (Overton Park): https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/storage/images/ctLkL9Whnql42K5rSxOLBFsmGyx9rgg3DOlWvLwR.pdf

Design Guidelines (Overton Residential Park): https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/storage/images/dc4vdBhsYbWdcqZ9yrUQUBfCwqawm9BelRNi0MZB.pdf

on Urban Renewal

Creative Development Strategies: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6evl6j1tjtwo9ax/2018_09_28%20Combined%20Presentation_FINAL.pdf?dl=0

Urban Renewal in Portland: https://prosperportland.us/what-we-do/urban-renewal/

Sample Feasibility Study: https://www.ehamptonny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2790/Wainscott-Hamlet-Report-January-30-2018-PDF

Utopian City Planning: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-smart-cities-failures-utopian-technological.html

Post-Pandemic Architecture: https://slate.com/business/2020/04/coronavirus-architecture-1918-flu-cholera-modernism.html

The Plight of the Urban Planner: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-plight-of-the-urban-planner

“Poverty is moving the the Suburbs”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/poverty-is-moving-to-the-suburbs-the-war-on-poverty-isnt-keeping-up/2018/04/05/cd4bc770-3823-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html

The Suburban Mystique https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/the-suburbs-are-now-where-poverty-lives.html

Dubrobnik Masterplan: http://bartbratke.com/portfolio_page/srd-masterplan-dubrovnik/

Strong Towns Webcasts: https://www.strongtowns.org/webcasts

7 Principles for Better Cities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFjD3NMv6Kw

Principles of Urban Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuyc8_Eo7XQ

Development Patterns & Infill: https://sustainablecitycode.org/chapter/chapter-1/1-7/

Encourage Infill Development: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/encourage-infill-development/

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Kunstler): https://www.jstor.org/stable/41757173

How Placemaking can Empower Urban Communites, Not Tear them Apart: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/01/16/how-placemaking-can-empower-urban-communities-not-tear-them-apart/?fbclid=IwAR1xYxbutCJ6NLeyxoWYMJLBNiNHNytigWnNWzi7JcRbDwBgU-vAJ5EH-C0

The Re-Emergence of the Public Square: https://www.pps.org/article/the-re-emergence-of-the-public-square

Proactive Public Space Management for Times Square: https://www.pps.org/article/times-square-debate-lays-bare-the-importance-of-proactive-public-space-management

COVID19-The Recovery Will Happen in Public Space: https://www.pps.org/article/the-recovery-will-happen-in-public-space

11 Principles for Turning Public Buildings into Community Anchors: https://www.pps.org/article/11principles

Atlas of Re-Urbanism: https://forum.savingplaces.org/act/research-policy-lab/atlas?_ga=2.147736695.1708718070.1596993095-1773863968.1596993095

Unlocking the Potential of Neighborhoods - Detroit: https://forum.savingplaces.org/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=64ab2c7b-ddb5-7ceb-5b31-b62416f9f6c5&forceDialog=0

Historic Tax Credits: https://savingplaces.org/historic-tax-credits#.XzAxCyhKiUk

Main Street America - Economic Impact: https://www.mainstreet.org/mainstreetamerica/mainstreetimpact

Main Street America - Catalyst Strategies: https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/NMSC/390e0055-2395-4d3b-af60-81b53974430d/UploadedImages/Resource_Center/Toolkits/Main_Street_Approach_Toolkit/Catalyst_Strategies_Summary_Matrix.pdf

Pruitt-Igoe Housing Failure: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/22/pruitt-igoe-high-rise-urban-america-history-cities

…on Displacement

Development Without Displacement: http://rootstorise.org/

Is Urban Renewal Good? (Using Organic Growth) https://nonagon.style/is-urban-renewal-a-good-thing/

Racist Roots of Urban Renewal: https://www.fastcompany.com/90155955/the-racist-roots-of-urban-renewal-and-how-it-made-cities-less-equal

How 4 Cities are Fighting the effects of Urban Renewal: https://www.curbed.com/2019/10/16/20915450/urban-renewal-mass-design-group-fringe-cities

City Revival-Did We Learn from Urban Renewal Era?: https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/city-revival-did-we-learn-from-the-urban-renewal-era

Louisville went crazy with renewal (check out before/after noli map slider) https://brokensidewalk.com/2016/urban-renewal/

Oklahoma Urban Renewal (check out before/after noli map slider) http://www.ouiqc.org/2016/10/27/smallcityurbanrenewal/

GOAL: “Let's fit all 25,000!"

This is a commitment to each other that we will pursue modern land-use strategies to accommodate ALL of the Lubbock 2040 plan's recommendation for new housing inside Loop 289. This includes the immediate deregulation of restrictions on mixed-use zoning across Lubbock to bring more activity into neighborhoods and allowing for the creation of accessory dwelling units anywhere inside Loop 289, rather than these rules being determined by the Lubbock Apartment Association.

-the Lubbock Disparity Report

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