Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Planning Edition

8/10/2019 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Planning Edition

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Planning Edition

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

See if you can figure out how planners are within six

degrees of being connected to actor Kevin Bacon.


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How public spaces makecities workAmanda Burden helped plan some of NYs newest

public spaces, drawing on her experience as an animalbehaviorist.

Time: 18:28 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_burden_how_pub

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Social Media for

Municipalities

Paper craft video giving basic strategy for use ofsocial media by municipalities

Time: 4:23 minWeb address: https://vimeo.com/61295756
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Conversation with an

Engineer

A resident has a conversation with a project engineerabout the proposed improvements to her street.

Time: 8:34 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/P9BUyWVg1xI
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Talking to a Planner

Illustrating the kind of problems that arise when wedon't design our processes in a way that facilitatecommunication.



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The Stroad

When you combine a street and a road, you get a

STROAD, one of the most dangerous andunproductive human environments.

Time: 5:15 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/F6jFnOnjzrk
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New York's streets? Not

so mean any moreJanette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner ofNew York City, shares projects that reshaped streetlife

Time: 14:02 minWeb address:

https://www.ted.com/talks/janette_sadik_khan_new_york_s_streets_not_so_mean_any_more
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Cities for people: A

lecture by Jan Gehl

Jan Gehl: great observer of urban quality and anindispensable philosopher of cities as solutions to theenvironmental and health crises that we face.

Time: 1:00:41Web address: http://youtu.be/KL_RYm8zs28
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How to designbreakthrough inventionsGlobal firm IDEO incorporates human behavior into

product design -- an innovative approach beingtaught at Stanford

Time: 12:40 min

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Virtutes ArchitecturaArchitect Edmund Bacon (Father of ModernPhiladelphia & of Kevin Bacon) uses loads ofwonderful models and diagrams along withappearances from a variety of architects andplanners describing their roles in the redevelopmentof Philadelphia.

Time: 2:07 min

Web address: https://vimeo.com/52770775

Part 1- 29:20 min

Part 2- 28:08 min


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Adam Bienenstock on

CollaborationInternational expert on natural playscapes and parkdesigns talks about the importance of collaboration

Time: 1:00 minWeb address:http://civicblogger.blogspot.ca/2014/09/urban-

design-is-team-sport.html
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The Art of Hosting - Open

Space Technology

Overview of the self organizing collaborative process

Time: 3:10minWeb address: https://vimeo.com/69798729


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Leader 3P Project

A look at the use of LEGO in redesigning rural healthcare.



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Stanley King and Susan

Chung at CU ENVDFinding the sweet spot: engaging youth in the designdialogue for planning their neighbourhoods



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Edmund Bacon Skates

Love Park

On October 28, 2002at age 92Bacon rode askateboard to protest the ban on skateboarding.



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How To Build a Better

Block

Opposite to the 'top down' concept of urban designis BETTER BLOCK

Time: 18:10 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/ntwqVDzdqAU
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The shareable future of

citiesAlex Steffen shows some cool neighborhood-basedgreen projects that expand our access to things wewant and need


https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_steffen
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Marshall McLuhan - The

World is a Global Village

Seeing the connected world well before it was areality.

Time: 8:44 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/HeDnPP6ntic
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Dr Mikes 23 hours

What is the single best thing we can do for ourcommunitys health?

Time: 9:18 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/aUaInS6HIGo
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Remarks from Dan Burden,Honorary Member, OPPI

Upon receiving his Honorary Membership, Dan takesa moment to reflect on his work with over 3500communities (half way through his journey)

Time: 2:03 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/P9BUyWVg1xI
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The walkable cityJeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves fromdependence on the car which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prostheticdevice"

Time: 16;56 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable

_city
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Revisiting DonaldAppleyard's Livable Streets

Explores three studies in "Livable Streets" thatmeasured, for the first time, the effect of traffic onour social interactions and how we perceive our ownhomes and neighborhoods.

Time: 5:59 min



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The ghastly tragedy ofthe suburbsIn James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces

should be inspired centers of civic life and thephysical manifestation of the common good.

Time: 19:44 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_

dissects_suburbia
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Retrofitting suburbiaThe big design and development project of the next50 years is going to be retrofitting suburbia

Time: 19:23 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/ellen_dunham_jones_retrofitting_suburbia/transcript?language=en
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A new vision forrebuilding DetroitCity planner Toni Griffin asks us to imagine an

entrepreneurial future for the city's 700,000 residents

Time: 11:48 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/toni_griffin_a_new_vision_for_rebuilding_detroit
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Curbside Chat

Strongtowns Trailer



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Jane Jacobs on urbandesign - circa 1969

Jane Jacobs comments on late 1960s Toronto andMontreal on how they have been planned and built,while condemning major highways planned for GTO


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9833TPWSCY
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Westbank Salon Series -Larry Beasley (April 15, 2014)Why great design and architecture should be the

standard, affordability and accessibility, and how tobuild better, smarter cities with the help of visionaryplanners, developers and designers

Time: 2:09:44Web address: https://vimeo.com/92811563


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Brilliant designs to fit

more people in every city

How can we fit more people into cities withoutovercrowding?

Time: 16:41 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/kent_larson_brilliant_des

igns_to_fit_more_people_in_every_city
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How the Dutch got theircycle paths

The Netherlands is well known for its excellentcycling infrastructure. How did the Dutch get thisnetwork of bicycle paths?

Time: 6:29 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/XuBdf9jYj7o
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A song of the cityJaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his nativeCuritiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way

city planners worldwide see whats possible in themetropolitan landscape

Time: 15:36 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/jaime_lerner_sings_of_th

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How food shapes our

citiesArchitect Carolyn Steel discusses the daily miracle of

feeding a city, and shows how ancient food routesshaped the modern world.

Time: 15:40 minWeb address:https://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_steel_how_food

_shapes_our_cities
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Powers of Ten

Ray and Charles Eames film on the relative size ofthings

Time: 9:02 min



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Dan Burden On Great

Responsibility and Future

for PlannersDan Burden, Honorary OPPI Member, speaks aboutthe great responsibility the planning profession holdsand where it might be headed in the future.

Time: 1:03 min

Web address: http://youtu.be/ko6wqJI3vhM
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Keynote Speaker Richard

Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman, founder of TED, talks aboutthe 19, 20, 21 vision.

Time: 40:40 minWeb address:http://video.esri.com/watch/49/keynote-speaker-

richard-saul-wurman
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The First Four SeasonsThe Center for Outdoor Living Design (COLD) is an

ongoing initiative dedicated to improving livability incold weather cities by inspiring artists, architects,and urban designers



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Disneys Magic Highway

A look into the future past.

Time: 8:47 minWeb address: http://youtu.be/TwA7c_rNbJE
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Mythbusters Test

Roundabouts

The Mythbusters take on roundabouts

Time: 10:11 minWeb address: http://www.wimp.com/testroundabout/
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