What’s NEWS with the Planners’ Revolution!
February 12, 2011 – Third Ward has adopted its vision statement. It reads as:
“Our neighborhood will have a superior quality of life as exemplified by its schools, green infrastructure, fresh foods, pedestrian friendly environment, human scale, housing choice, mobility, safety, green businesses, livability, affordability, rich culture, and architecture. People are its greatest and most valued resource. Citizens are involved in an active partnership with each other, the city at large, and the region, We strive to foster, inclusion, sustainability (social, environmental, and economic), resiliency, community, wellness, and innovation; propelling our community as the model village for the Twenty-Second Century City (Houston) based on respect for our environment and our humanity.”
January 24, 2011 – Holman and LaBranch in front of our 1413 Holman offices and gallery at the Midtown Arts Center will be Houston’s first Better Block Project! More details are coming soon, for more information please go to the Better Block Houston Facebook page. April 9, 2011 during “Art in the Park” here in Midtown is when when our block will be transformed into a HOT BLOCK, so please contact us if you want to help us ROCK da’ BLOCK.
November 29, 2010 – Third Ward – Midtown : Midtown Follies – Urban Design Bloopers - Part 1 and Part 2
This is a brief two-part slide show (due to size) displaying many of the challenges of being a pedestrian and/or cyclist in a city with very little respect for other modes of transportation beyond the car. This is a light hearted presentation with many pictures of challenges but simple solutions as well. With Renew Houston’s Proposition #1 passing, this could be an opportunity to change our public infrastructure for the better: less flooding and complete streets. Remember, Houston has all of the makings of world-class city minus the two biggies: built environment and transportation.
August 28, 2010 – Field Trip to Fort Worth
Planners’ Revolution coordinated a field trip to Fort Worth Area for the Third Ward Community Cloth – Housing and Environment Co-Chair, Michelle Barnes. This “comparative urbanism” showed how a collective vision from a city and its residents can lead to real results. We viewed many areas with in the City of Fort Worth and its many suburbs, however, we focused mostly on Fort Worth’s Central City and its awesome Downtown. This link is a short presentation that highlights a few of the people, places, and spaces that were viewed on this trip. The presentation also includes links to other sites so that anyone interested can get a more in depth understanding of the impressive work in policy and process that has led to these dynamic improvements in the built environment. We are planning a second trip to Fort Worth in December, we hope to have more in the way of pictures and commentary in a follow up presentation after this excursion.
November 9, 2010 – Third Ward to TREville
This presentation was given to the members of the Third Ward Community Cloth Cooperative. Planners’ Revolution has been working with the Housing and Environment Thread as technical advisors as they engage the community in a planning process. Treville is the proposed name for the Third Ward Community that instead of trying to rebrand the community seeks to rename the community based on what it has become. This process seeks to improve the quality of life for the residents of Treville by the creation of a resident led comprehensive planning and implementation process/framework based on principles of sustainability. This new plan and process will build on the content and reccomendations laid out by the 1995 Third Ward Community Plan prepared by Roberta F. Burroughs and Associates. The end result being a sustainable, livable, world-class place that serves as a replicable model for other communities and that serves as the catalyst for transforming Houston into “the” 22nd Century City.
