This document discusses the importance of collective impact and collaboration to address issues related to transportation, livability, and walkability. It highlights projects in St. Louis that brought new partners together and opportunities to make the city more walkable. The document also discusses the limitations of only increasing road capacity to address traffic issues and emphasizes the need for more walkable, livable communities. Overall, the document advocates for collaborative, community-driven approaches to transportation planning that prioritize pedestrian access and livability over simply expanding roads.

2. THE POWER OF Desired
COLLECTIVE IMPACT Outcomes
Transformative Projects
New Collaborations
Identify Opportunities
Walk/Live St. Louis 2012
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Need for a more walkable St. Louis

3. Livability and the role
of Transportation

4. Now that we are here …
What can we do?

5. Dan Burden and Samantha Thomas ,Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
Walk/Live St Louis, 2012
Wellston Metrolink

6. Why we
cannot
build our
way out of
traffic
Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) around the U.S. have increased
by 70 percent over the last 20 years, compared with a two
percent increase in new highway construction. The U.S.
General Accounting Office predicts that road congestion in
the U.S. will triple in 15 years even if capacity is increased by
20 percent.
Traffic is growing about five times faster than the growth in
population.
(Data compiled for a report to the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2006
written by Stephen Polzin, (transportation researcher at the University of

13. Taking Charge of your neighborhood –
empowering your leaders to create success

21. "If we want a booming economy of

33. Arrowood – Existing Conditions

34. Arrowood Bicycle Vision

35. ARROWOOD
URBAN DESIGN
VISION

37. Single-Use Commercial Buildings

42. New Port Village, Port Moody

43. New Port Village, Port Moody

44. Loss of Security
1910 2000
Corner of Division Avenue and Fulton Street Grand Rapids, Michigan

48. 8-10 du/a net 11-12 du/a net

51. Victoria, B.C.

52. Dover Kohl & Partners

53. Dover Kohl & Partners

54. Dover Kohl & Partners

55. Dover Kohl & Partners

56. What are the problems here? Density
Well Designed
Urban-Advantage.com
Lack of Security Auto dependence
Lack of people No place to buy a popsicle
Lack of investment Lack of diversity
Lack of diversity Lack of activity

60. Housing Details:
• “A” Side faces primary street
• “B” Side provides eyes to court
• Both sides provide surveillance
• Parking is convenient
• Other uses blended in
• Place to assemble
• Low speed environment

61. “A” Side

62. HUMAN FACTORS
Principle II:
Interaction & Socialization
To enhance overall public
safety, the public realm must
provide opportunities for
people to interact comfortably
and build community.

63. HUMAN FACTORS
Principle I:
Information & Orientation
To feel safe and
enhance our safety, we
need to know where
we are, where we are
going, and what the
rules are

64. HUMAN FACTORS
Principle IV:
Seeing & Being Seen
To feel safe, we need to know
that others are aware of our
presence. Likewise, it is
important that we are aware of
the people and activities going
on around us.

65. HUMAN FACTORS
Principle III:
Ownership & Stewardship
Private property and public
space that is well maintained
and allows individual
expression, contributes to a
positive image, a feeling of
safety and a sense of
community

66. IMPLEMENTATION
Principle V:
Land Use & Design
Land use mixes that
are compatible,
combined with
human-centered
design, create
environments that
are safer for people

67. IMPLEMENTATION
Principle VII:
Management & Maintenance
Spaces that are
maintained and
managed for their
intended purpose and
condition reinforce a
feeling of safety and
encourage people to
use those spaces for
productive reasons

68. IMPLEMENTATION
Principle VI:
Activity & Programming
We feel safer in the
public realm – and are
safer – when there is
activity around us and
that activity is orderly

74. Our People Come First

86. The Birdhouses

92. Monterey, California
Cleveland, Ohio.

93. Monterey, California

97. 1. Core
problem
solving
group
2. Task
forces
3. Input and
feedback
meetings
4. Communications
and outreach
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98. Walkability Audits
A Tool for Organizing Strong Communities
and Developing Complete Streets

107. For further information contact:
Dan Burden and Kelly Morphy
Walkable and Livable Communities Institute,
www.walklive.org