[PUBLICATIONS]

Envisioning Seattle's Green Future: Executive Summary
Download the Open Space Seattle 2100's Executive Summary here or request a copy by mail of the full report by emailing the lab. This free publication comes complete with a CD of the full report, "Envisioning Seattle's Green Future, Visions and Strategies from the Green Futures Charrette".

Envisioning Seattle's Green Future: Visions and Strategies from the Green Futures Charrette
This report documents the imaginative and pragmatic work of over 350 people who participated in the 2006 Open Space Seattle 2100 charrette. Download the report here or request a free copy of the full report by emailing the lab. More information also available at the Open Space Seattle 2100 website at www.open2100.org.

Reimagining Seattle Streets: Prototypes for Green Street Edges & Parking Strips
Prototypical designs for street-edge strategies that included bicycle lanes, reconfiguration of sidewalks and crossings for better safety, and enhancement of parking strips to provide community spaces, stormwater control, water conservation and connected habitat. Please visit the Seattle Public Utilities website to view or download the final report.

Precedent Studies for Green Street Edges
Precedent studies illustrate successful practices and designs for street-edge strategies inlcuding enhancement of parking strips to provide community spaces, environmental art, stormwater control, water conservation and habitat.

Linking Open Space and Housing Affordability: Strategies and Funding Mechanisms
In alliance with the UW Evans School of Public Policy, this research documents the literature examining relationships between open space and property values, anticipates typical revenues generated through open space acquisition and development, and presents mechanisms for allying funding mechanisms with provision of affordable housing.