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Sustainable city.green Metropolis?

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Who has the smaller CARBON FOOTPRINT?

Case Study 1: Earthship dweller in

undisturbed nature with full availability

of up to date sustainable technology and

a high level of awareness to use it as

often as possible

Case Study 2: Rowhouse dweller in old

leaky building with a low motivation

level to save energy (heat is on most

time, when it is hot he opens the

windows)

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Behind the scenes consequences.

Case Study 1: individually scattered

dwellings (suburbia) impose an enormous

burden on infrastructure / services and

necessitate automobiles. which leads us

to the world we know..

Case Study 2: Row houses in older cities

often have transit availability; as an

urban form, row houses are just dense

enough to run trains economically

efficient

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We often look at sustainable urbanity as aquestion of energy use.

But the fundamental problem behind ourenergy use is our inefficiency of using space..

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LAX 3,500 acres140,000 arrivals / departures per day

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Venice 3,850 acres55,000 arrivals / departures per day

.mostly by train

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Suburbia / SprawlToo dense for cars / not dense enough for

economically efficient transit

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Walkable Cities..with adequate density are the natural

complement to transit / rail

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Density / congestion is relative - The samenumber of people stuck in cars are lost in

space without them (and they all fit into ONE bus)

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Shanghai, Pudong...when you try to serve high density with

cars things can get scary

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London, Liverpool Street Station...on a normal day

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London, Liverpool Street Station...density as performance art flashmob

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Density

Car Based Transportation Transit

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Density

Car Based Transportation Transit

If we were to increase builtdensity to levels where we theycan economically support transitbefore actually building it.

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Density

Car Based Transportation Transit

If we were to build transit in areasnot yet dense enough to generateadequate ridership to operate transiteconomically.

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our very common condition (Burbank).

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As a society, we simply can no longer afford the overhead of

running a society based largely on automobile based

transportation:

In the 40s, an Angelino spend about 3 cents of every disposable

dollar on their transit needs; in a city with superb public

transportation.

Today, Angelinos spend 19 cents of every dollar stuck in traffic.

The amount of money that can be recovered in greater Los

Angeles alone is about 40 Billion disposable dollars / year

(theoretical value).

Collateral damage of driving. Traffic deaths. 93 people every

day. 651 every week. 2,830 every month(national).

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What can we model ourselves after?Manhattan

Shanghai

London

Berlin

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Rethink road dimensions, Stop wasting space

for roads and sideyards

Rethink urban space What is it for?St. MonicaVienna St. Gallen

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Parking Day Streetspace for People!

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c i c L A v i a

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Emphasize Green Streets Initiatives, WalkableCities, Pedestrian Zones.

LA has an acute retail space deficiency (LADBS). IfLA could get itssales tax revenue comparable to San Francisco, this would add $ 200

Million / year to th

e general fund. IfL

A could be comparable with

Santa Monica, it would add $ 400 million / year..

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Rethink urban typology: Fee simple rowhouses(UK, Netherlands, East Coast - Brooklyn.)

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Rethink urban typology: Block Edge buildings(central Europe.)

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Denser forms of urban environments are (often)associated with large urban open spaces

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Car Based model Transit enabled model

S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y

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Car Based model Transit enabled model

S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y

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What are some of our obstacles?

NIMBY (not in my backyard) BANANA (build absolutely nothinganytime near anything)

To the doubting public new development means little more than

more cars in my way, because their experience has demonstratedthat for many many years.

And the public is alerted to the usual real estate slight ofhand(that often promises stuff which often works out differently thanadvertised) and they have a fearsome toolkit to fight back, delay

and prevent any new project:

- CEQA- discretionary design reviews

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Quality cities can offer solutions to many of the environmental problems that have plagued ourmore and more suburbanized landscape. Similar to what happened more than 100 years ago, a newCity-AGAIN-Beautiful movement can utilize the current political and economic structure to createbeautiful, spacious, transit enabled and orderly cities that contain healthy open spaces, makegetting around easy and showcase a public realm that expresses the moral values of our time.

Transitioning from where we are today towards those urban forms will not be easy, nor will it

happen quickly, but it is attainable as long as we can motivate ourselves to make the right choices.

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Choose

transformation