Peter Calthorpe Concepts

Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design

by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words

a formal profession has nonetheless been a consistent theme. Observing the absence of a formal profession of urban designers in the United States, for example, Peter Calthorpe (in Fishman 2005: 68) argued:‘There is a profession and license for landscape design, for planners, for civil engineers, for structural engineers, for traffic engineers

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involving light rail and pedestrian and cycle space, with a new public space in front of the Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street. Peter Calthorpe has also explored the use of multi-lane thoroughfares in new developments (see Dunham-Jones & Williamson 2009). In the UK, Birmingham, the first city to

Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson · 23 Mar 2011 · 512pp · 131,112 words

were important precursors to this book. Among those who encouraged and assisted us in telling these stories of transformation are G. B. Arrington, Jackie Benson, Peter Calthorpe, Don Carter, Hank Dittmar, Victor Dover, Andres Duany, Peter Elmlund, Doug Farr, Will Fleissig, Harrison Fraker, Larry Frank, Ray Gindroz, Ellen Greenberg, Seth Harry, Doug

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. One of the earliest and most effective is the LUTRAQ plan for Portland, Oregon (Land Use Transportation Air Quality), begun in 1988 and led by Peter Calthorpe. His subsequent regional plans for Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Perth have informed his development of the Urban Network, an alternative to the functional street

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as dividers between communities rather than serve the street’s traditional role as a shared public space that seams both sides of the street together. Peter Calthorpe’s design for San Elijo Hills uses a double couplet to narrow arterials into one-way halves that split around the town center, restoring the

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passes through a town. Figure 4–21 Mesa del Sol is an enormous twenty-square-mile mixed-use, high-tech, green community being planned by Peter Calthorpe outside of Albuquerque. It is also where he will test several of the ideas for the Urban Network, including the transit boulevard shown here. Lined

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Highway Administration website, http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/Environment/flex/cho3.htm, and reflect the distinctly suburban rather than urban orientation of the system. 69 Peter Calthorpe, “From New Regionalism to the Urban Network: Changing the Paradigm of Growth,” Harvard Design Magazine 22, (Spring/Summe 2005). 70 Ibid., 65. Critics are concerned

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Utah held over sixty charrette workshops in communities throughout the region and engaged over 18,000 people in online voting for their preferred growth scenario. Peter Calthorpe, a founder of CNU, and his associates led the effort. 25 D’Alesandro recognized the opportunity at Cottonwood and in correspondence with Ellen Dunham-Jones

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by James Howard Kunstler · 31 May 1993

've failed is in the human ecology. It's this human ecology movement that must really be the agenda for the years ahead. " Pedestrian Pockets ... Peter Calthorpe, the San Francisco architect and planner, is the main figure behind Pedestrian Pockets, a scheme to retool the suburbs. 6 Calthorpe and his colleagues bring

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up on building materials without repairing underlying bad rela tionships would result, it seems to me, in just the sort of exercise in nostalgia that Peter Calthorpe was talking about: using old forms with out the supporting principles, hamburger joints dolled up to look like little white churches, in the middle of

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, p. 15. CHAPTER 3 1. Johnson, The Birth of the Modern, p. 211. 2. Kostof, America by Design, p. 297. 3. Solomon, "Fixing Suburbia," in Peter Calthorpe, et al., The Pedestrian Pocket Book, p. 23. 4. Stern, Pride of Place, p. 297. 5. Ibid. , p. 302 6. Silver, Lost New York, p

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of 1988. The documents were subsequently published under the title, The Pedestrian Pocket Book, edited by Mr. Kelbaugh. Solomon, "Fixing Suburbia," Peter Calthorpe, et aI. , The Pedestrian Pocket Book, p. 29. Peter Calthorpe, "The Post-Suburban Metropolis," Whole Earth Review, Winter 1991. Hiss, The Experience of Place, p. 214. 2 8 0 _ Bibliography Alexander

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

by Stewart Brand · 15 Mar 2009 · 422pp · 113,525 words

of Isabella Kirkland; and in any town or city reshaped by what is called New Urbanism. That last item is my example. • In 1983, architect Peter Calthorpe gave up on San Francisco, where he had tried and failed to organize neighborhood communities, and moved to a houseboat on the end of South

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ten A.M. nobody drives, and the entire city, including the slums, tidies itself up. • In his 1985 article that introduced the idea of walkability, Peter Calthorpe made a statement that still jars most people: “The city is the most environmentally benign form of human settlement. Each city-dweller consumes less land

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Sullivan’s EcoDensity program includes zoning changes to allow ‘secondary suites,’ or in-law apartments; triplexes; and narrow streets with houses that abut property lines.” Peter Calthorpe’s “walkability” has become a real estate selling point, with walkable neighborhoods able to charge premium prices. A proven way to encourage walking and use

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trend by pressuring cities to become more like child-friendly Paris, where every neighborhood has excellent schools and parks with playgrounds, puppet theaters, and carousels. Peter Calthorpe tells me he’s become an advocate of voucher schools, because that system forces city schools to compete in an open market, and they then

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staff, one Whole Earth friend (Huey Johnson) was secretary of resources, another (astronaut Rusty Schweickart) chaired the Energy Commission, two (Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe) were running the State Architect’s office, and still another (Wilson Clark) ran the Office of Appropriate Technology . (Jerry Brown is still at it. Elected

The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving

by Leigh Gallagher · 26 Jun 2013 · 296pp · 76,284 words

variety of reasons for this that we’ll explore later, but the implication is the same: “The whole Ozzie and Harriet day has passed,” says Peter Calthorpe, the San Francisco–based architect and urban planner who pioneered the notion of transit-oriented development and who, as a cofounder of the New Urbanism

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traditional neighborhoods that were small and walkable, mixed stores and housing together, and emphasized community. Their early leaders included the San Francisco urbanist and architect Peter Calthorpe and the Miami-based husband-and-wife architect team of Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Over the years their leagues expanded to include hundreds

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who had become alarmed by the growth of conventional suburban development and started meeting informally to share their ideas for solutions to it. They included Peter Calthorpe, a pioneer of transit-oriented, walkable residential development, and Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the husband-and-wife team who had risen to fame

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that the car “disaggregates the complexity of the pedestrian shed” (translation: when developers assume people will drive, things get built farther apart). Over lunch with Peter Calthorpe, the San Francisco–based architect and urbanist, I listen as he discusses the end of Communism, the evolution of the middle class, and the “flywheel

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include places like NorthWest Crossing in Bend, Oregon; Norton Commons, twenty minutes outside of Louisville in Prospect, Kentucky; and Stapleton, a massive project designed by Peter Calthorpe’s Calthorpe Associates in Colorado that is one of the largest, a 4,700-acre development on the site of the former Stapleton International Airport

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, Douglas Yearley, says there will be a broader mix of choices available to meet the demands of an increasingly diverse population. The urbanist and architect Peter Calthorpe likens the discussion to the debate over gay marriage. “We’re not saying that the suburbs are wrong or should go away,” he says. “Just

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words

only the first time they’d been stoned or tripping but also a life-changing event, their consciousness chemically altered or not. One example was Peter Calthorpe, a precocious Palo Alto sixteen-year-old who built geodesic domes in high school with Lloyd Kahn, later the editor of the Shelter section of

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new engine as part of making the boat seaworthy again. The South 40 Dock became the best example of what Brand’s friend and neighbor Peter Calthorpe would describe as the “new urbanism.” Calthorpe was inspired in part by living in the houseboat community to realize that “walkability”—the notion that all

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twenty-five dollars and used to get to church on Sundays.[11] Kelly rented a room close to the Mirene, several berths over, belowdecks in Peter Calthorpe’s houseboat. It was just a concrete shell, almost like a dungeon, but he didn’t mind. Calthorpe felt that the young editor, who would

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eight students and he quickly learned that he was not a compelling teacher, though his failings were compensated for by world-class guests. Christopher Alexander, Peter Calthorpe, and Sim van der Ryn all gave lectures. When he set out, he thought that the seminar might evolve into a position at the UC

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his crosshairs. “Frank Lloyd Wright houses are aesthetically paralyzed forever,” he wrote in his journal one day. “His commercial buildings get demolished.” He spoke with Peter Calthorpe and Sim van der Ryn as well as Christopher Alexander and Jane Jacobs. He also went back to his Whole Earth Catalog roots and interviewed

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roots in the same do-it-yourself, grow-from-scratch philosophy with which he had started the Whole Earth Catalog several decades earlier. His neighbor Peter Calthorpe had convinced him that great architecture was not art—which was not to say the result couldn’t be beautiful. The Bradbury Building that had

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just a year after the formation of the Congress for the New Urbanism, founded by a group of progressive urban planners, including Brand’s friend Peter Calthorpe. The book sparked a discussion that led to the idea of what are described as “form-based codes” in the planning world—the idea that

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Hill comrade who had edited Red Herring during the dot-com boom and then moved to Cambridge to edit MIT’s Technology Review. Influenced by Peter Calthorpe and then by Robert Neuwirth’s book Shadow Cities, which offered a generally positive interpretation of slums and shantytowns, Brand had been giving a Green

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words

Forest City Enterprises, which pledged a twenty-year marriage to the project and paid its dowry up front to prove it. In turn, it drafted Peter Calthorpe, a founding father of New Urbanism, to help patch the battered and polluted site back into the urban fabric. Following his movement’s scripture, Calthorpe

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of Parliament on how they might go about rehabbing Heathrow. “ ‘New Urbanism’ is a funny term, because it’s really the old urbanism,” he said. “Peter [Calthorpe] would tell you you can have New Urbanism anywhere.” And so would Gleason’s boss, Jon Ratner. The youngest member of the Ratner clan is

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south side of Albuquerque atop a mammoth plateau, it’s the last parcel of its size in America so close to the airport and downtown. Peter Calthorpe drafted a sequel to Stapleton, with a few twists thrown in. For one, it’s three times the size of the original, adding a hundred

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aerotropolis than the ones we have now? One of the best tools in our kit is something called “transit oriented development,” an idea coined by Peter Calthorpe the same year he helped found the Congress for the New Urbanism. The name says it all: neighborhoods and cities built along the splines of

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participants were divided into three teams, each charged with plotting the entire site. One was led by Douglas Kelbaugh, the dean and former partner of Peter Calthorpe, with whom he’d invented transit-oriented development. He brought a battery of faculty, students, architects, and urban planners to assist him, including two of

Suburban Nation

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck · 14 Sep 2010 · 321pp · 85,267 words

neighborhoods of most prewar cities, they would average about one-quarter mile from edge to center. While some flexibility is advisable—the West Coast designer Peter Calthorpe recommends a ten-minute walk in order to engage a larger number of households to a transit stop, and college students seem to put up

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idealistic professionals who have joined us in battle, most notably our colleagues in the Congress for the New Urbanism. Our co-founders of the Congress—Peter Calthorpe, Liz Moule, Stef Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon—have played no small part in the development of the ideas advanced here. Before there was a Congress

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the U.S. Census Bureau’s 1997 report on Geographical Mobility. 2 Edward Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder, Fortress America, 24. 3 Ibid., 7. 4 Peter Calthorpe, The Next American Metropolis, 19. 4. THE PHYSICAL CREATION OF SOCIETY 1 “Parking Lot Pique,” A26. 2 Jonathan Franzen, “First City,” 91. 3 Jonathan Rose

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closures worldwide, found that 20 percent to 60 percent of driving trips disappeared rather than materializing elsewhere. bb Jane Holtz Kay Asphalt Nation, 15; and Peter Calthorpe, The Next American Metropolis, 27. Since 1983, the number of miles cars travel has grown at eight times the population rate (Urban Land Institute traffic

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that the Vermont children had three times the mobility—independent access to desired destinations—while the Orange County children watched four times as much television (Peter Calthorpe, The Next American Metropolis, 9). No wonder Philip Langdon feels compelled to say that “A modern subdivision is an instrument for making people stupid” (Langdon

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

by Jarrett Walker · 22 Dec 2011

-friendly places. That’s the case with one of the most famous early efforts at “Transit-Oriented Development” (TOD). Designed in the late 1980s by Peter Calthorpe, Laguna West, south of Sacramento, featured the now-familiar neo-traditional ideals for new suburbs. A gridded town center would consist of offices or housing

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

by Alan Ehrenhalt · 23 Apr 2012 · 281pp · 86,657 words

way, rather than as one more cookie-cutter suburban subdivision, is a tribute of sorts to the city of Denver, circa 1995; its master planner, Peter Calthorpe; and its developers, Forest City Enterprises. Moreover, it has generally been a success. Prior to the recession, its 3,600 occupied units were increasing in

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the ugliness of suburban sprawl and the intelligence of urban design as practiced in many places in the preautomobile era. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Peter Calthorpe, and a handful of coconspirators carried these slides to countless audiences all over the country in the early and mid-1990s. As a model of