1.1 Research _ Exploration of Eugene, Or

Site Definition:

• Downtown Eugene, Oregon
  • Municipality: https://www.eugene-or.gov/791/Downtown
  • Property and Business Owners Membership Organization: https://www.downtowneugene.com/about/
  • Downtown Neighborhood Association Charter: https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1930/DNACharter?bidId=
  • Eugene, Cascades, & Coast – Downtown Eugene Guide: https://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/eugene/neighborhoods/downtown-eugene/
• Downtown Park Blocks: https://www.cameronmccarthy.com/project/historic-eugene-park-blocks/
• Eugene Farmer’s Market Pavilion & Plaza
  • Lane County Farmer’s Market: https://www.lanecountyfarmersmarket.org/
  • Saturday Market: https://www.eugenesaturdaymarket.org/
  • FFA Architects: https://ffadesign.com/projects/park-blocks-pavilion/ 
  • SOJ Project Manager: https://www.shielsobletzjohnsen.com/projects/eugene-town-square 
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting Article: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/06/04/eugene-yearround-farmers-market-pavilion-opens/
  • Register-Guard Article: https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2022/06/04/lane-county-farmers-market-pavilion-plaza-moving-fifth-eighth-oak/65358568007/
  • Daily Journal of Commerce Award: https://djcoregon.com/news/2023/06/01/arts-culture-entertainment-1st-place/
• Eugene Town Square Design: https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/60543/200118_ETS-Final-Report-compressed
• PPS Downtown Eugene Public Spaces Report – https://www.eugene-or.gov/3368/Background—Places-for-People

Problems of Interest:

• Spatial Justice
  • Cost of Living
  • Food Equity
  • Seating
  • Rain Shelter
  • Drinking Water
  • Free Restrooms
  • Cost of essential services, such as showers and clothes washing machines
  • Centralized, non-religious public shelter
  • Mental Health Care –
  • Medical Care
  • Child Care and Playgrounds
• Health of Downtown Core
  • Impacts of Covid on Public Life
  • Vacant commercial spaces
  • Business hours of operation
  • Use varieties and proximities
  • Residential Rates
  • Property ownership
  • Open Space v. Parking v. Developed Land
  • Labor – variety of occupations, job vacancies, and available skills

Urban Design Theory – Start of Bibliography:

• Dying Downtowns:

  • Urban Doom Loop: What It Is and How Cities Can Stop It https://now.tufts.edu/2023/08/16/urban-doom-loop-what-it-and-how-cities-can-stop-it

  • Breaking the Urban Doom Loop: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/breaking-the-urban-doom-loop-the-future-of-downtowns-is-shared-prosperity/

  • America’s Downtown Recovery: https://urbanland.uli.org/economy-markets-trends/americas-downtown-recovery-what-does-the-data-say/

  •  The Death of Downtown: https://downtownrecovery.com/death_of_downtown_policy_brief.pdf
• Yadav, P., Patterson, S., Bilandzic, A.S., Johnstone, S. (2021). Evidence-Based Design Justice: Synthesizing Statistics and Stories—To Create Future ‘Just’ Cities. In: Geertman, S.C.M., Pettit, C., Goodspeed, R., Staffans, A. (eds) Urban Informatics and Future Cities. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.uoregon.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76059-5_21
• Urban Mental Health: https://www.vtpi.org/urban-sanity.pdf 
• Downtown is for People: http://innovationecosystem.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/63349251/DowntownisforPeople.pdf 

• THE WAY WE WERE, THE WAY WE ARE: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DESIGNING CITIES SINCE 1956 https://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/the-way-we-were-the-way-we-are-the-theory-and-practice-of-designing-cities-since-1956/#:~:text=Today%20most%20urban%20design%20professionals,recreation%3B%20and%20it%20supports%20social

• The Right to the City: https://davidharvey.org/media/righttothecity.pdf
• Citys for People, Not for Profit https://erikafontanez.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/cities-for-people-not-for-profit-neil-brenner.pdf