Whether you are a citizen who would like an introduction to pedestrian-friendly, transit-compatible development or a planner, developer, or public official searching for more detailed design solutions for your community, Citizens for a Better Environment has something for you!

"Back to the Future:  Designs for Walkable Neighborhoods"”
This entertaining video is targeted at citizens, local elected officials, planning commissioners, and others.  It provides an introduction to key design concepts of pedestrian-friendly developments including:  compact, mixed-use development;  pedestrian-oriented site design;  and traditional neighborhood street design.  Examples are drawn from communities in Wisconsin and Illinois.  (20 minutes, $7)

Inside the Black Box:  Making Transportation Models a Tool for Livable Communities
A comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to the process of land use and travel forecasting.  It is targeted at commissioners, citizens, traffic engineers, and planners.  This primer describes how automobile traffic and transit ridership is modeled and offers suggestions for improving models and making them more sensitive to pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders.  (65 pages, $9)

Site Designs for Livable Communities
This  collaborative effort  presents  designs for traditional neighborhood development  in four different locales, as alternatives to low density, auto-oriented sprawl. Each design was presented to local officials, property owners and local residents, and met with enthusiastic responses. Principle for Livable Communities and numerous illustrations are included. (50 pages, $15)

Livable Wisconsin Newsletter
Wisconsin's only newsletter dedicated to livable communities strategies, reports on projects and events in and around the state; and keeps you up to date on the latest ideas, analysis and legislation (3 issues yearly, $7.50 individuals/non-profits, $15 businesses/government agencies)

Community Design for the Next Century: A Guidebook for Creating Pedestrian-Friendly Towns & Neighborhoods
This manual describes land use and transportation designs that support walking, bicycling, and transit.  Subjects include street and streetscape design, access and circulation, parking, density, mixed-use development, redevelopment issues, and pedestrian, bicycle, and transit facilities.  The guidebook will explain and illustrate examples of alternative design strategies and provide general recommendations for –– and specific examples of –– land use ordinance provisions, design guidelines, and engineering standards.  (Available in June 1997)

Livable Communities Slide Show
This slide presentation provides excellent, side-by-side comparisons of pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods and typical auto-oriented developments using over 100 visual examples from communities in SE Wisconsin and elsewhere.  ($15 Rental)

Livable Communities Fact Sheet
A four-page brochure which covers some of the problems with –– and alternatives to –– sprawl development.   (10¢ Each)

Transportation Action Guide  -  Fair and Sustainable Mobility in the 1990s
A reference booklet with diagrams and charts that help explain ISTEA, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, air contaminants, alternative transportation solutions, the state and local decision-making process, and key transportation terms.  By Rob Kennedy, Ph.D., CBE Policy Consultant.  Published by Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Environmental Defense Fund. (150 pages, $4)

__ Back to the Future ($7 Each)                                     _______         Method of Payment: ____Check  ____Credit Card
__ Inside the Black Box ($9 Each)                                  _______         VISA/MC:  Acct. #_________________________
__ Site Designs for Livable Communities ($15 each)        _______         Exp. Date____ Signature_____________________
__ Livable Wisconsin Newsletter ($7.50/$15)                 _______
__ Community Design for the Next Century (N/A)          _______
__ Slide Show ($15 Rental, Plus $75 Deposit)                _______
__ Fact Sheet (10¢ Each, First 3 FREE)                         _______
__ Transportation Action Guide ($4 Each)                      _______
 
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