Interested in the benefits of people-oriented places? Here are some links our members like.

O-POP in the News

• Multi Family Tax Exemption: Boon or bane to neighborhoods? // Quoted in The Olympian (December 2023)

• Housing History in Olympia and Setting the Stage for the Legislature // The Olympia Standard podcast (March 2023)

• Lean in Olympia, Episode 14: Talking about Housing! // Interfaith Works Facebook Live Interview (May 2021)

• Wonkabout Washington: Lessons in Intergenerational Organizing from Olympia // The Urbanist (2020)

• Design Month Asks: How Can Olympia Grow and Still Be a People-Oriented Place? // The Olympian (2019)

• May’s Olympia Design Month: We Build This City // City Arts (2019)

• Praise for Olympia Design Month // The Olympian Editorial Board (2019)

• O-POP Spells Good Things for Olympia // The Olympian Editorial Board (2015)

• Olympians for People-Oriented Places Focuses on City's Future Growth // The Olympian (2015)

• Manifest Density // O-POP article in City Vision Magazine (2015)

Local Resources

• Regional Planning Information // Thurston Regional Planning Council

• The Profile: Statistics, Trends, and Analysis for Thurston County // Thurston Regional Planning Council

Community and Equity

• Front and Centered: Frontline Communities, Equity Centered

• Disability Rights Washington

• Smart Growth America

Transportation

• What is VisionZero // Sightline Institute

• Victoria Transport Policy Institute // Todd Litman

Bike/Pedestrian

• What are Greenways? // Seattle Neighborhood Greenways

• Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Toolkit // Green Futures Lab, University of Washington

• Feet First, Promoting Walkable Communities

• Rich People Walk and Bike for Different Reasons that Poor People Do // Grist on UW Research

Automobile

• The True Costs of Driving // The Atlantic

Housing

• In Support of West Bay Yards (Opinion) // The Olympia Tribune

• Kathy McCormick and the Missing Middle // The Olympia Standard podcast (April 2018)

• Housing, Housing, Housing! // The Olympia Standard podcast (January 2018)

• 2017 Affordable Housing Update // Washington State Legislative Report

• American Housing Policy's Two Basic Ideas Pull Cities in Opposite Directions // The Atlantic

• Washington State Housing Needs Assessment, 2015 // Washington State Department of Commerce

• Open Up Seattle's Single-Family Zoning to Those Who Aren't Rich // The Seattle Times - Opinion

• Sanctuary, Not Just Shelter: A New Type of Housing for the Homeless // National Public Radio

The Environment

• Climate Action and Mitigation Plans // Thurston Regional Planning Council

• Sustainable Thurston // Thurston Regional Planning Council

• Where You Live Makes a Difference // Thurston Regional Planning Council

• Dollars and Sense: Compact, Walkable Urban Places // Thurston Regional Planning Council

• Dense, More Compact Cities Help Combat Climate Change and Inequality // Urban Land Institute

Land Use and Design

• Futurewise

• A Before-and-After Photo Archive of the World's Best Street Design // City Lab

• New Urbanism

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

• Older, Smaller, Better: Measuring How the Character of Buildings and Blocks Influences Urban Vitality // National Trust for Historic Preservation