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Dom Nozzi, Executive Director

Walkable Streets specializes in preparing and amending plans, land development regulations, quality of life regulations and community design recommendations. The guiding principle of Walkable Streets is that a walkable street is the fundamental building block of a quality community. Indeed, the pedestrian is the design imperative.

Urban Design Principles

Below you will find links to essays and organizations that are the basis of my work -- and the basis of my passion. My intent is to provide information and services that are useful in designing livable, sustainable, walkable, and equitable communities and neighborhoods--communities and neighborhoods we can take pride in.

Self-Authored Reports & Essays

Essays by Others

People/Organizations

Places

A Collection of Urban Design Quotes.

Fundamentals of a Good City.

Top Ten Best Urban Design Books.

Measuring Walkable Urbanity.

Recipe for Creating a Bicycle-Friendly City.

In October 2003, the Greenwood Publishing Group published my book, "Road to Ruin." A press release about the book is available. For easy-to-read details about many of the views expressed on this web site, order your copy today.

If you would like to hire the services of Walkable Streets, or have questions, comments or suggestions about this site, send email to dom@walkablestreets.com

Dom Nozzi’s speech in Bloomington IN

This is a set of five videos on Google Video that, when combined, represents a speech I give throughout North America.

1. Road to Ruin: Congestion, Sprawl, Quality of Life, Part I

Transportation is Destiny

Dom Nozzi points out that big roads and big parking lots deliver sprawl and a downwardly spiraling quality of life. He illustrates the destructiveness of making cars happy instead of people. The tragic dilemma is that we live in a car dependent world, so we are trapped by a need to harm our communities to make cars happy. 12 minutes.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1155896531250408730&hl=en

2. Road to Ruin: Congestion, Sprawl, Quality of Life, Part II

Focus on Private Realm & Abandonment of the Public Realm

Dom Nozzi discusses the American over-emphasis on the private realm, and the cocooning and abandonment of the declining public realm. We cannot widen our way out of congestion. Congestion is self-regulating. 14 minutes.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707217379522468890&hl=en

3. Road to Ruin: Congestion, Sprawl, Quality of Life, Part III

Congestion is our friend and the Gigantism Disease

Dom Nozzi discusses how in cities, traffic congestion is our friend. How the “gigantism disease” is killing cities. Cities tend to need LESS open space. Forgiving streets are less safe. Life safety is a more important focus than the more narrow fire safety. 14 minutes.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-808680495942452546&hl=en

4. Road to Ruin: Congestion, Sprawl, Quality of Life, Part IV

The keys to a better future.

Dom Nozzi discusses local government opposition to smart growth. He illustrates the tragedy of “cul-de-sac kids”. He notes the importance of “giving staff permission.” Is this our future? The key is to move back to the sustainable, walkable tradition of complete streets and mixed-use towns rich in housing and transportation choice. Interventions needed: road diets, traffic calming, place-making, mixed use, affordable housing, efficient parking, smart growth, and making people happy instead of cars. 18 minutes.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1099594631036206186&hl=en

5. Solving the downtown parking “problem.”

Dom Nozzi describes how to solve the downtown parking “problem.” Parking needs to be provided more efficiently and must be properly priced. The importance of unbundling parking cost from housing cost. The need for downtowns to leverage their strengths. 15 minutes.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5029224235660662505&hl=en

Mr. Nozzi is available to make these and other customized presentations in your community. His fee is a sliding scale honorarium and travel expenses.

Seeking Planner or Urban Designer Position

Mr. Nozzi, AICP, is an experienced, certified urban planner and designer with 21 years of public sector experience. He is currently seeking employment as a planner or urban designer. He is adept working alone and as part of a team. He is a smart growth and walkable streets specialist. He is a public speaker and author regarding sprawl, congestion, quality of life. He can craft and calibrate land development codes for smart growth, form-based coding, transects, walkable urbanity, context-sensitive design, and parking. He is skilled in establishing understandable, Plain English, graphics-based codes, consolidating overlays, and preparing presentations and plans. He has prepared long-range comprehensive plans, and prepared regulations for large-format retailers, electronic signs, creek setbacks, density bonus points, converting a conventional shopping center into a walkable town center, code definitions, TNDs, urban design toolbox, consolidation of overlays, bicycling, community indicators, land use accessibility index, street connectivity, building height design criteria, and noise control. His resume and references are available upon request. Contact him at 3003A Hanover Ave, Richmond VA 23221. Or email him at:

dom@walkablestreets.com

Self-Authored Reports & Essays

Interview with The Bloomington (IN) Alternative (10/07)

Local Government Opposition to Smart Growth (9/06)

Solving the Downtown Parking Problem (8/06)

Model Urban Design Strategies (4/06)

One Size Does Not Fit All: Applying the Transect Tool to Bicycle Facilities (2/06)

Downtown Parking (5/05)

On the importance of ratcheting down Speed and Size (3/05)

Mashpee Commons: Transforming a shopping center into a walkable town center (8/04)

Context-Sensitive Street Design Literature (4/04)