Affordable Housing and Transit Oriented Development (TOD): New Design, Development, and Management Trends

July 7-8, 2011

Thursday – Friday 9am-5pm

AIA LU (HSW/SD) 14 units

The build-out of Southern California’s transportation systems is changing development patterns at and around new transit stations and hubs throughout the region. These changes can result in missed opportunities or in better urban fabric. Transit Oriented Design, or TOD, offers the potential for creating compact, more walkable and sustainable communities centered around transit systems. In practice, however, many uncertainties persist. How will mandated greenhouse gas reduction goals (SB 375) and other co-benefits of environmentally responsible development influence the planning of this change in land use? What new affordable housing development opportunities will be created by the convergence of sustainable regional planning and L.A.’s transit build-out? What is good transit-oriented development from an urban design and project design perspective? What public policy and/or code reforms are needed to take best advantage of the transit build-out? What is the practitioner’s role in causing these changes to happen? With input from experts across development fields, this program will address these questions and provide valuable information for anyone involved in future TODs.

 

Coordinators: Click names for more info

John V. Mutlow, FAIA, Professor USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Professor John V. Mutlow FAIA, AA Dip. (TP), M.Arch (UD) UCLA, is a native of England and a graduate of the Architectural Association, London and the University of California, Los Angeles. He practices architecture in Los Angeles and is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California, where he is currently the Chair of graduate studies and was the Director of the Advanced Architecture Program from 1991- 94. He has received numerous design awards for his architecture, which has been published extensively. Professor Mutlow was a Borchard Foundation Faculty in Residence Research Scholar in France, 2002. He received an Excellence in Education Honor Award in 2001 and the Community Housing Assistance Honor Award in 1995. Professor Mutlow is the author of the American House, Design for Living 1991; Ricardo Legorreta Architects 1997; and The New Architecture of Mexico 2005.

Professor Mutlow’s architectural practice focuses on the design of affordable, senior and workplace housing, with an emphasis on social considerations. Housing projects include workforce, farm worker, senior, special-needs and family housing. Projects also include childcare centers, community centers, private schools, historic renovations and single-family residences. His notable projects in the Hispanic and Latino communities of Los Angeles have led to professional exchanges with architects in Mexico, where he has traveled widely, visiting buildings and meeting with architects.

John V. Mutlow Architects is a multi-disciplinary architectural firm committed to the design of buildings that will endure the test of time. John V. Mutlow is nationally known for his work, leadership and lectures. For the past twenty-seven years the firm has specialized in the design of housing and affiliated services. More recently he has broadened his experience to include schools. As a member of the LAUSD Design Advisory Council, and office projects which include Woodland Hills Elementary Private School and MTA Transit Tots East. He was also a moderator at the LAUSD ‘Lessons Learned’ conference at the Getty Center. Projects of note include, the design of two communities that include community/childcare/kindergarten buildings and recreational facilities (soccer and baseball field), and the development of a series of prototypical designs for Daito Trust, a Japanese development consortium. Projects have also been completed in England, the Philippines and South Korea. The firm has extensive experience working with governmental agencies and community-based development corporations. Continuing relationships with clients on several projects is the direct result of client satisfaction with the professional services provided.
Paul Zimmerman, Executive Director, Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing, Los Angeles, CAPaul is a native of Los Angeles. Motivated by a lofe-long interest in social change, economic equity and the built environment, he has worked in the nonprofit sector for most of his professional career. From 1988 to 2006, Paul was the executive director of the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, developing and managing subsidized senior, disabled and family apartments. In April 2006, he assumed the responsibilities of executive director of the Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH), which represents the interests of community development organizations throughout the region. Paul has served as SCANPH’s Board president and on numerous boards of directors and working groups concerned with affordable housing and urban planning issues.
Martha Welborne FAIA, Executive Director of Countywide Planning, MTA , Los Angeles, CA

 

Learning Objectives Click for more info

  • Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn about recent public policy reforms (i.e., SB 375 mandating greenhouse gas reductions) and other environmentally responsible development initiatives and how such measures will influence future land use guidelines.
  • Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about new affordable housing development opportunities that will be created by the convergence of sustainable regional planning and L.A.’s transit build-out.
  • Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn about good transit-oriented development from an urban design and project design perspective.
  • Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn and discuss what additional public policy and/or code reforms are needed to take best advantage of the transit build-out, and the practitioner’s role in causing these changes to happen.

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