Citizens For a Better Environment Video Added to WAPA's Video Collection

A new video presentation has been added to the WAPA collection of video tapes. Back to the Future: Designs for Walkable Neighborhoods was prepared by the Citizens for a Better Environment with a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The 20-minute video, prepared in 1996, opens with a short dramatization illustrating the difficulties an office worker in an outlying office park faces when he tries to walk to get his lunch from his remote work location and more difficulties when he tries to bike to his local market in heavy traffic. From there, the video goes on to espouse pedestrian-friendly and transit-friendly urban development using examples in and around Wisconsin. This video is good for planners who wish to support pedestrian-friendly development and neo-traditional design principles. The video is available at a nominal price directly from the Citizens for a Better Environment, or may be borrowed from WAPA for a $5.00 fee to cover the cost of mailing. Planners interested in borrowing the "Back to the Future" video or other videos in the WAPA collection should contact:

Roland O. Tonn, AICP
WAPA Professional Development Officer
2708 University Court
Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188
Phone: 569-2166 (work), 549-1393 (home)
E-Mail: rtonn@wppisys.org

A complete listing of programs in the WAPA video collection is as follows:

1. The Role and Responsibility of the Planning Commissioner (1988), This video details the powers and responsibilities of the planning commissioner (in California) and provides an overview of a range of topics, including the mandatory and permissive components of the general plan and the relationship between the planning agency and various elected bodies. Municipal Video Project, 40 minutes.
2. The Challenge of Change, Natural Resource Preservation in Oakland County, Michigan; Environmental planning and water supply in Austin, Texas; Light rail in San Diego, California; Affordable housing in Boston, Massachusetts, AICP, 15 minutes.
3. Greendale, Wisconsin -- 50 Years, Local Production, 6 hours.
4. Planning Education -- Kid Style, Teaching the "Box City" planning program to third grade students, Tennessee APA, 18 minutes.
5. Meeting Management: A Mock Commission Hearing (1994), APA, 90 minutes.
6. Back to the Future: Designs for Walkable Neighborhoods (1996), Citizens for a Better Environment, This video, prepared with a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, looks at pedestrian-friendly land uses and design, 20 minutes.