Investment Ready Places Community Building In
The New American Frontier #InvestmentReadyPlaces
• RADHIKA MOHAN
Mayors’ Institute On City Design
• SCOTT FORD
City of South Bend, IN
• JOE NICKOL
Urban Design Associates
• ATUL SHARMA
Torti Gallas And Partners
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Gateway Cities
Suburban Settlements
The New American Frontier
The Great Migration
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The Great Migration
The New Techno - Mobility
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The Great Reset
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What makes an
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Nourishment For Residents
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Stable Supply Of Water
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Manageable Infrastructure
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Connected Places
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Creative Knowledge
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Heritage & Living Culture
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A New Tool Box
IRP Locator
IRP Locator
IRP Checklist
Town Information Modeling - TIM
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“I just discovered your blog/handbook about Investment Ready Places. My city is a suburban, mid-sized town taking active steps toward becoming a full-service urban place. We are investment ready! How do we get added to the IRC map?” -Pete Sullivan, City Of Redmond, Planning Department
“I thought it would be good to get your advice on potential studio project sites for the graduate urban designers for this coming fall semester.... It would be great to engage in some of the more challenging issues facing small working class towns such as some of the sites you have identified on your investment ready website.....”
-John Griffin, University of Notre Dame
“Love the site. Looks like it covers a lot of ground that is just as relevant in provincial New Zealand as it is in the States. I'm interested in using the IRP Checklist as a way to canvass the views of local stakeholders and also get some discussion on the IRP topic going as it looks to me like a very neat way of encapsulating what is a large topic.”
-GregMorris@wanganui.govt.nz
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design Radhika Mohan, AICP/ASLA/LEED GA | Senior Program Manager APA 2013
PARTNERSHIP
HISTORY
HISTORY Design Thought and Political Activity are Indivisible --Thomas Jefferson
CITIES
PARTICIPANTS
GOALS 1 EDUCATE: Vocabulary + Awareness
GOALS 2 GUIDE: Understanding Design Process
GOALS 3 GENERATE: Ideas + Solutions
GOALS 4 CREATE: Beautiful Places
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Project Location
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City Center Neighborhood Suburban Greenfield Brownfield Waterfront
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Project Format Development Plan Policy
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Sustainability Historic Preservation Economic Development Downtown Revitalization Code Reform Transit Oriented Development Mobility Urban Infill
Project Impetus Economic Environmental Social/Demographic Infrastructure
Project Scale Building Block Corridor District City Region
Project Goals
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Project Components Housing Commercial Industrial Mixed Use Institutional: Education Institutional: Cultural Institutional: Civic Park/Plaza/Open Space Transit: Parking Transit: Bus/Rail Transit: Auto-Oriented Transit: Bike/Ped
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SOLUTIONS 1 CODE REFORM
SOLUTIONS 2 OFFICES OF INNOVATION
SOLUTIONS 3 TEMPORARY PROJECTS
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South Bend A Case Study of the New Frontier
Context: A ‘Satellite City”
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History:
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County Seat, St. Joseph County Indiana 4th largest City in Indiana 2010 population – 101,168 MSA population ~ 250,000
Settled in early 18th Century by Fur Traders Established as City in 1865 River played a key role in establishing Studebaker and Oliver Plow
An Open City
Entrepreneurial Economic Heritage
A Familiar ChallengeAn Open City
Selling South Bend: A Place to Grow
A New Paradigm: Integrated Hardware & Software
Software: Regenerative Culture
Photo of “The Pool” by Jason Bryant
Software: Social and Civic Capital
Software: Open Government
Software: Beta City - CSO
Results Achieved: Real time sewer monitoring and control has reduced wet weather overflows by 23% and has virtually eliminated dry weather overflows with 95% reduction.
Software: Beta City – CSO
Software: Beta City – IOC Monitor
Software: enFocus, Innovation and Brain Gain
A New Paradigm: Integrated Hardware & Software
Hardware: Urban Living Opportunities
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Hardware: Celebrating the River Setting the stage for growth
Hardware: Healthy Neighborhoods
Before / After
Hardware: Platforms for Productive Innovation
Hardware: Platforms for Productive Innovation
Smart New Direction: Open, Innovative and Entrepreneurial Place. An Open City
South Bend: The New Frontier is Open
2 TYPES OF TRAITS: INHERITED + NURTURED
2 TYPES OF TRAITS: INHERITED + NURTURED
The IRP Nurtured Traits • • • •
Thrifty: Pragmatic use of what is available Innovative: Constant tinkering Adaptive: Flexible, nimble and quick Discovery-driven: Real-time market research • Sticky: Open to new, often unexpected markets
New Rules for the New Frontier 1. Make no many small plans to realize extraordinary performance 2. Maximize interactions and multipliers 3. Design for both known and unknown possibilities
The Old World Development Culture 1. 2. 3. 4.
Assemble large tracts of cleared land Create a tight master plan Bundle financing (public and private) Build infrastructure (usually public) that assumes growth to pay for itself 5. Develop parcels (either build-to-suit or spec) 6. Hope it will all work out as projected 7. Exit strategy
The New World, Investment Ready Development Culture 1. Focus on areas with high regeneration potential 2. Establish a high social capitalization environment 3. Connect potential end users with potential community entrepreneurs 4. Build the minimum viable product (MVP) 5. Incremental installation of infrastructure 6. Repeat
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