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Citizens For a Better Environment Video Added to WAPA's Video Collection
By Roland O. Tonn
WAPA Professional Development Officer
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Greendale, Wisconsin -- 50 Years, Local Production, 6 hours.
- Planning Education -- Kid Style, Teaching the "Box City" planning
program to third grade students, Tennessee APA, 18 minutes.
- Meeting Management: A Mock Commission Hearing (1994), APA, 90 minutes.
- 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.
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