Welcome to the Community Development Committee
Mark Hansen, chair
The Community Development Committee is devoted to understanding urban planning, architecture, historic preservation and other aspects of community building. The committee has participated in the Participatory Budgeting process, hosts salons and other subject matter conversations and supports tactical urbanism and other small scale projects that make a difference in our community.
We’re gearing up for Park(ing) Day. This year, we will be celebrating this international movement celebrating the use of public space normally devoted to cars on Friday, September 16, 2022.
The Livability & Attractiveness Sub-Committee operates within Community Development Committee.
- There are no upcoming events.
- There are no upcoming events.
Previous Salons
June 2018
JPF welcomed speaker Steven Vance from Streetsblog Chicago, who discussed zoning in Chicago.
May 2017
The subject of this salon was on population trends in Jefferson Park.
April 2017
The subject of our discussion is “walkability”, which is a measure of how friendly an area is to facilitate walking. We viewed a TED talk by author and urban planner Jeff Speck and discussing it at the salon.
Resources and Learning
The Community Development Committee is putting together a digital and lending library for JPF members interested in urban planning, economic development and sustainability topics. We hope that by educating our members on these topics, it will help the community confront or be proactive in planning issues as they arise in the community. If you have any suggestions for materials, email us.
Websites
Active Transportation Alliance
American Planning Association – professional association of urban planners in the U.S.
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
City Lab – a website about all things cities from the Atlantic magazine
City Notes – a blog written by a local Chicago resident covering housing and development issues
Planetizen – a news aggregation website for urban planning topics
Streetsblog Chicago – a news website focused on bike, pedestrian and transit issues in Chicago
Urban Land Institute – the ULI is the professional association of planners and real estate developers
The Transport Politic – covering the politics of transportation
Transport Nexus – Ryan Richter’s urban transportation planning blog
Videos
New York’s Streets: Not so Mean Anymore
How Donald Shoup will find you a Parking Spot
Jaime Lerner: A Song of the City
Recommendations, Digital Books
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
The Big Sort: How the Clustering of Like-Minded America is tearing us apart
Lending Library, Hard Copy
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Detroit City is the Place to be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice – the infamous “green bible” of the urban planning world
One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago
Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes
Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health, and Money
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The City in History: It’s Origins, It’s Transformations and It’s Prospects
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The End of Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape
The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development
The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago
Thoughts on Building Strong Towns, Volume I
Planetizen’s Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation