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Resources for building a family friendly Oakland

Oakland! We can make our city more family-friendly by learning from others who have prioritized families in their planning decisions. Here are some resources we've collected to help give us a head start. 

Oakland Resources

  • Tracking the Oakland downtown development pipeline and production history by bedroom counts 
  • OUSD - Blueprint for Quality Schools Background Report, Summer 20017
  • Oakland Fund for Children and Youth - Demographic Profile
  • OUSD - Strategic Reginal Analysis 2015-2016, April 2016 
  • A Roadmap Toward Equity: Housing Solutions for Oakland, California, PolicyLInk 2015
  • Map of Family Friendly Oakland
Is Oakland Planning for Families?

Other Cities Leading the Way

  • Here's what happened when the city of Boulder let their kids design their city. (Feb 2018)
  • ​City of Toronto Growing Up: Planning for Children in New Vertical Communities Draft Urban Design Guidelines, May 2017   (7 min radio interview w/summary)
  • Family-Sized Housing An Essential Ingredient to Attract and Retain Families with Children in Seattle
  • San Francisco Planning - Housing for Families with Children (Jan 2017)
  • Achieving Child-Friendly Infill Development in Austin’s Early Suburbs Sustainable Neighborhoods Public Policy Committee Third Revision – August 2013
  • Special Joint Study Session Report to the Emeryville City Council and Planning Commission on Multi-Unit Residential Development  (May 2015) 
  • Emeryville’s Family Friendly Design Guidelines  and Bonus program
  • Emeryville Discussion of proposed regulations, incentives and guidelines, May 2015
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Excerpt from the City of Seattle's report on Family-sized housing
  • Emeryville Jan 2011 Study Session: Fostering Child-Friendly Housing and Creating a Family-Friendly City 
  • The case for family friendly housing for artists and Family Friendly Artist Housing examples

Ideas From Around the World​

  • Cities Alive: Designing for Urban Childhoods - Dec 2017 - By ARUP. Through 40 global case studies, 14 recommended interventions and 15 actions for city leaders, developers and investors and built environment professionals, the report shows how we can create healthier and more inclusive, resilient and competitive cities for us to live, work and grow up in.
  • Global Age-Freindly Cities: A Guide - 2007 World Health Organization
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  • ​Age Friendly Cities Checklist - This checklist based on the results of the WHO Global Age-Friendly Cities project consultation in 33 cities in 22 countries. 
  • How to Design a Family-Friendly Urban Home - Tips from Vancouver blog, This City Life. 
  • Small Children, Big Cities: Building Smart Child-Friendly Cities for 21st-century India - Summary of a 2014 conference – organized by the Bernard van Leer Foundation
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Excerpt from the City of Emeryville's Family Friendly Design Guidelines
  • Taking Action for Child Friendly Places: Strategic Approach & Action Plan for Belfast - June 2016
    This action plan is based on extensive engagement with children across Belfast and aims to begin a process of creating Child Friendly Places in Belfast by responding to the priorities they identified.

Other Resources and Coverage

  • How to Design Cities for Children, Mimi Kirk, City Lab February 2018
  • Parents Paving the Way for Family-Friendly Urban Living - January 2018 -  Jennifer Griffins, Strong Towns 
  • Families WILL Choose to Live Downtown, If We Design for Kids! Sept 2012, Brent Toderian of Toderian UrbanWorks
  • 8 80 Cities - A nonprofit working to make cities work for all ages
  • Cornell University Professor Mildred Warner - Planning Across Generations
  • Governing Magazine coverage on families in cities (Nov 2015), included census tables on affordability and demographics: 
    • As Affordable Housing Shrinks, Where Can Families Live? (Nov 2015)
    • The Most and Least Kid-Filled Cities
  • This Sightline series explores the building blocks of great kid-friendly cities
  • KaBoom! Resources to build a playful city for everyone
  • 5 Kids 1 Condo - resources and blog 
  • Downtown Families, Sarah Snider Komppa, August 2015
  • How to spot housing discrimination against families
KaBoom - Play is a Competitive advantage for Cities 
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Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto Chief City Planner with CBC News
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Adrian Cook of 5 Kids 1 Condo with Jennifer Keesmaat
Website by Karla Tapia at Hack the Hood Bootcamp
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