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High Point: The Inside Story of Seattle’s First Green Mixed-Income Neighborhood
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About High Point: The Inside Story Of Seattle’s First
Product Description The task: transform a 120-acre, run-down, high-crime, isolated, low-income housing project into a thriving, safe, healthy, mixed-income community with public and market rate housing, and shared green spaces and a street network linking the neighborhood together as well as to the surrounding community. Today, Seattle's High Point is an internationally acclaimed model of green, mixed-income development. In the beginning, however, it was a visionary and highly risky experiment that would require strong leadership, grit, and determination to make it a reality. Enter Tom Phillips, the urban planner who agreed to take on High Point. The story follows his team’s journey from inception to completion, navigating the myriad needs and expectations of a broad range of stakeholders, from government agencies to the design team, contractors, residents, and the broader community, all while keeping his eye on the greater vision and expanding it to include green building and design, at the time a new and fairly radical concept. Throw into the mix the 2008 housing crisis and the subsequent economic recession, and the result is a highly instructive and entertaining narrative filled with wisdom, insight, and lessons learned. It is also, most importantly, a critical, as well as celebratory, look back 18 years from the project's inception, to ponder what worked and what was learned to inform and inspire the next generation who are engaged with the transformation of communities. Review The poster child for town making it is! HIGH POINT is North America's most teachable new community. To now have Tom Phillips inspirational book High Point to provide the back story, philosophy and achievement is a remarkable treat. --Dan Burden, Director of Innovation & Inspiration, Blue Zones This is a story of an urban neighborhood designed and built with a commitment to inclusion, environmental stewardship, and engagement. High Point remains true to its aspirational name - a place that represents the best of what we can accomplish together. -- King County Executive Dow Constantine It is marvelous to see the weaving together of New Urbanist design principles, innovative natural surface water drainage and other environmental approaches, and healthy and green building design practices into an integrated,holistic community master plan. -- Dr James Krieger MD, MPH is founding Executive Director of Action for Healthy Food (AHF) and Institute for Healthy Food (IHF) and was chief of the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section at Public Health-Seattle and King County His book is an engaging and heroic tale about the challenges of New Urbanist community building. This is an important history and truth-telling, about a community that stands today as a replicable model for affordable sustainability. -- Lucia Athens, City of Austin Chief Sustainability Officer You had said you wanted to write an accessible book to people could understand some lessons, and that is what you did. -- Rachel Garshick Kleit, PhD Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University
