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The Livability ChallengeOctober 11-13, 2010
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Beauty is a challenge. When it comes to our cities, we rarely speak
of beauty. Our urban aspirations tend to be framed in more quotidian
language efciency, safety, function, economy. But beauty silently
drives our decisions. Where will we go for lunch? Is there time to stop at
the park? Have you see that performance? Where should we live? And in
driving those decisions it enriches our lives.
Cities that are attentive to beauty understand that
it is an economic engine an engine that attracts
and retains talent and an engine that stabilizes and
raises property values. Cities that are committed
to beauty understand that it enriches and ennobles
its citizens.
The citizens of Indianapolis have made a
tremendous commitment to beauty. Theyve built
a world class Cultural Trail, invested in one of the
premier public art collections (at the airport),
and nine thousand of them volunteered to turn
an interstate highway into a thriving arts and
nature corridor. When the citizens of Indianapolis
encounter the beautiful in good design, in art
and in nature they are not encountering isolated
moments or objects, they are encountering the
product of their concerted eorts and committed
choices.
But for Indianapolis (or for any city in America) to
be a model of a beautiful, twenty-rst century city
it will have to go further. It will have to redene
public art, it will have to reimagine the role of
public infrastructure and it will have to reconnect
to the land. These are some of the Big Ideas that
were identied at the Livability Challenge in
Indianapolis in October 2010. Together the Big
Ideas identied in Indianapolis show what it will
take for any city in America to make beauty, in the
form of art, good design and nature, available to all
of its citizens every day.
What was striking in Indianapolis was how simple
those Big Ideas seemed once they were voiced. But
simple ideas, even inevitable ideas, are not easy to
make true. It was not until those Big Ideas were
rooted in projects in Indianapolis that they began
to demonstrate what a beautiful, livable city would
be. A city where investments in infrastructure
clean the air and uplift the spirit, a city where
artists and designers solve problems, a city that is
at once a park and an economic powerhouse.
We wouldnt have caught a glimpse of that city
without the willingness of the Indianapolis team
to hear new ideas or without the ability of the
national guests to recognize what was happening
in Indianapolis. But now that we have caught a
glimpse we know where we could go.
Charlie Cannon
November 2010
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FOREWARDby Brian Payne
I believe if you put a bunch of smart and creative people
with dierent experiences, backgrounds and voices in
a room and give them a common purpose and a great
facilitator, magic should happen. Even with all of this
optimism going in, I was a bit stunned about how great
the Livability Challenge was and what we accomplished
for Indianapolis and, I believe, for cities throughout the
United States.
For me personally, and for the Central Indiana Community
Foundation, the organization in which I serve as President,
there were two major objectives. We wanted to bring local
experts together with national thought leaders to set an
agenda for whats next in Indianapolis that will create
access to art, beauty and nature every day; and to spread
the word nationally that Indianapolis is a progressive,
innovative city with a quality of life that can attract and
retain highly educated, creative and community-minded
people throughout the country and throughout the world.
My colleagues and I believe we now have a creative and
powerful agenda for whats next in Indianapolis. We
also have compelling action plans to move forward on a
number of our big ideas. Since the Livability Challenge
involved and connected so many of our citys leaders,
there is signicant buzz about what transpired. The big
ideas that we proposed already have momentum and
compellingly build on our current assets. In fact, our
Mayor, Greg Ballard, is on board and wants to help create
implementation teams for each of our ten big ideas.
We also accomplished our objective of spreading the work
about our dynamic downtown and amazing quality of
life that Indianapolis already has created. The nationa
experts and community leaders from other cities were
incredibly impressed by our Monument Circle area, the
Indianapolis Cultural Trail, the art and nature park at theIndianapolis Museum of Art and the quantity and quality
of our civic leadership.
Trying to nd the balance between serving Indianapolis
needs and creating a national framework for livability
was an important and a complex challenge. I didnt fully
understand how we would do that until the challenge got
under way. Our facilitator, Charlie Cannon, did a brilliant
job of leading us to build a foundation for both loca
projects and national themes and then helped us connect
the two. This national framework of 21st Century urban
livability priorities will act as an important buttress for
ambitious local projects for cities throughout the U.S
This framework is both a huge gift to Indianapolis and a
signicant national contribution from the work pioneered
in Indianapolis.
Brian Payne is president of the Central Indiana Community
Foundation and co-chair and co-sponsor of the Livability
Challenge.
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Inspiring places are magnets for people. Cities
are increasingly being judged by their quality of
place, as Americans choose the places they want
to live based, in part, on their physical appeal and
their vibrancy.
Although it has not always been easy to measure
the impact of such amenities as parks, art and
rst-rate architecture and public places, it is
increasingly clear that investments in these things
have powerful positive eects on cities and their
citizens.
In addition to providing places of respite and
recreation, green space has positive, measurable
impacts on adjacent property values. The sales
premium on property within 100 feet of a park of
any size is 24 percent. Green space also enhances
storm water management and keeps cities cooler.
Imagine a community taking up the challenge to make art, good
design and nature available to every citizen every day. What
would full engagement look like? What would be an effective quick start
strategy? Where are the early wins to create momentum? And how would
a community know when it is succeeding?
When arts are ever-present, they encourage
participation, which leads to a ywheel of other
positive spin-os, including more creative people
who then attract more creative people, making
places more interesting and diverse. And the best
architecture and design creates places that people
love, want to live in, visit and come back to.
Investing in beauty, nature and art are among
the most signicant demonstrations a city can
make about its distinctiveness the unique and
often intangible characteristics of a place that
build attachment among a citys residents. And
communities with the greatest levels of attachment
experience higher economic growth.
Were constrained only by your imagination.
Let it all happen.
Mayor Gregory A. Ballard
City of Indianapolis
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B I G I D E A S are needed for any city to achieve the ambition of makingbeauty, in the form of art, good design and nature, available to all of its citizens every
day. The goal of the Livability Challenge was to generate those Big Ideas using a set of
guiding principles, tactics and demonstration projects that provide an actionable and
compelling framework for achieving the Livability ambition.
We began this critical conversation in Indianapolis,
home of the spectacular Indianapolis Cultural Trail.
Together with the Central Indiana Community
Foundation and Indianapolis Downtown Inc, CEOs
for Cities convened national experts and local leaders
to generate big ideas for how cities can provide ever-
present access to art, good design and nature.
Working with a team of national experts led by Will
Rogers, president of the Trust for Public Land, and Bri-an Payne, president of the Central Indiana Community
Foundation, CEOs for Cities worked over 2.5 days to de-
termine what it takes to instill beauty and inspiration
into the daily lives of the citizens of Indianapolis.
The Livability Challenge team included:
National Experts
Will Rogers, President, The Trust for Public Land
Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, NYC Department of
Parks & Recreation
Don Carter, Director, Remaking Cities Institute,Carnegie Mellon University
Deborah Marton, Executive Director, Design Trust for
Public Space
David Rubin, Partner, OLIN
Lily Yeh, Principal, Barefoot Artists
Local Action Team
Brian Payne, President, Central Indiana Community
Foundation, The Indianapolis Foundation
Maxwell Anderson, Director and CEO, Indianapolis
Museum of Art
Alpha Blackburn, President and CEO, Blackburn
Architects, Inc.
David E. Forsell, President, Keep Indianapolis
Beautiful, Inc.
Stuart Lowry, Director, Indy Parks and Recreation
Tamara Zahn, President, Indianapolis Downtown, Inc.
Using a methodology developed by Charlie Cannon
Associate Professor and Founder of the Innovation
Studio at the Rhode Island School of Design, the
team identied critical components of the Livability
ambition:
We can have access to beauty, in the form of art, good
design and nature, every day.
The Big Ideas may be thought of as dierent lensesfor understanding how to achieve the ambition
through which specic projects identied by our key
stakeholders can be viewed. In eect, these projects are
expressions of the Big Ideas. So while Indianapolis was
the laboratory for exploring Big Ideas, the strategies
identied in this report are both locally relevant and
nationally signicant.
The Livability Challenge is one of four national
challenges staged by CEOs for Cities as part of the
US Initiative, an ambitious movement by CEOs for
Cities national network of civic leaders, inuentialpartners and brave new thinkers to dene a new
American Dream. The project articulates a Declaration
of Interdependence with values that dene cities of
tomorrow, today.
The following pages reveal twelve Big Ideas that
emerged from the Livability Challenge, as well as
specic strategies for executing them locally.
Results of the Livability Challenge will be put to use
in national publications related to the US Initiative
including a book to be published by The Rockefeller
Foundation.
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1. CELEBRATE CITY CENTERSAt the heart of every city lies an iconic public space
whose meaningful, historic legacy make it a natural
center for vibrancy and economic activity. In
Indianapolis, that space is Monument Circle. Pictured
above, Monument Circle has all of the potential of a great
public piazza, but that potential hasnt been exploited.
Currently, it is just a unique public space that oers nocompelling reason to spend time there. One principal
of the Livability Challenge was to take what you have
and make it better. Examples of this include Chicagos
Millennium Park and New York Citys Highline. These
existing landscapes create opportunity and investment,
as well as destinations for residents and attractions for
new visitors.
ACTIVATE OBVIOUS PUBLIC GATHERING SPACESThe public realm is the least expensive of all the things
to change, and is the most impactful. It is the thing that
will change everyones life. With simple mobile andtemporary interventions, Indianapolis could activate
Monument Circle with a little bit of chaos and inspire
opportunities to put people in touch with one another.
Creating a dynamic culture of possibility need not
require a huge economic investment, even as longer-
term investments are being made. Its a matter of
rening whats there.
IMPLEMENT TRAFFIC CALMINGWith its grand steps and fountain, Monument Circle is
already a great people magnet. But with cars whipping
around the corner it doesnt feel like a true pedestrian
plaza. Experimenting with trac calming, or even
closing to trac at certain times or altogether, the Circle
will take on the energy of a true pedestrian space like afarmers market. The closing of Times Square to trac
resulted in a 71 percent increase to area retail sales along
42nd Street in Manhattan within the rst six months
Design for people, not cars, and retail development will
follow.
RAISE A PROJECTS PROFILE THROUGH DESIGNInspired by a similar competition for Grand Army Plaza
in Brooklyns Prospect Park, Indianapolis Downtown
Inc. has committed to launching an international design
ideas competition to re-imagine Monument Circle
This serves to raise the projects prole both locallyand internationally while also calling upon a broader
network of designers for world-class ideas to exploit the
Circles potential.
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2. REVITALIZE THE EDGEAcross the country, low-slung strip malls are suering. These
developments can and should be reimagined to express their hidden
vitality and potential. Revitalizing the edge means acknowledging
that these areaswhich abound in cities throughout the country
can become the foundation for transformation that supports more
viable public spaces and private uses as well as mixed-use zoning.
LOOK FOR SIGNS OF LIFEIn Indianapolis, the W. 38th Street corridor, or Lafayette Square, is one
such area (pictured right). Yet, the corridor is a burgeoning cultural
district and home to an array of ethnic restaurants. Grassroots and
philanthropic eorts are building on these assets in several ways. An
abandoned Goodyear Tire store is being redeveloped into a service
center for art and culture by Big Car Gallery, a local business working
with private funders. Considered an early win for the neighborhood,
this center will support art, storytelling, urban gardens, a small
library and serve as a multi-modal transit hub. Volunteer resources
have been mobilized for community-wide clean up, mural painting,
and tree planting. Grassroots and philanthropic eorts have raisedthe areas prole for ocial resources. The City of Indianapolis
will apply for tax increment nancing, and the Lafayette Square
Area Coalition was formed and, with funding support, hired its rst
executive director.
ANIMATE THE SPACE, EVEN IF TEMPORARILYTalk to people in the community to suggest what kind of public space
will bring people together. Short-term interventions might include
festivals or place-based events like a gallery hop and restaurant tour,
a Gray to Green food festival, food pop art parks or even a local
music festival. These types of public space potluck events inspirepeople about what a place could become and, in the long-run, lead to
the establishment of a new cultural district.
TREAT IT LIKE A BLANK CANVASDead strip malls, in many ways, are a blank canvas. The National
Endowment for the Arts has supported a Dead Malls Competition
to inspire creative re-use of such spaces. On a smaller scale, one
participant suggested the literal canvases oered by billboards
that dot the landscapes of many low-density areas. Creating an
opportunity for local artists to re-purpose them creates a small, but
tangible inspiration.
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The inspiration for this Big Idea came from successful
nancial models for public art in Denver and Phoenix,
where aesthetic principles were applied to otherwise
mundane public works projects like concrete silos and
sound walls. Infrastructure investments are necessary
but they need not be ugly. This Big Idea asks cities to
think about how art and materials can be incorporated
into infrastructure projects.
Artists have a role to play in civic solutions and
the creative confrontation of urban problems
Contemporary public art practices can contribute
to delight and serendipitious interactions in the
urban environment as well as bring people together
deliberately for public dialogue. At the US Initiative
San Jose Brain Trust in September 2010, one idea wasto create an Artist-in-Residence program at City Hall.
To encounter art everyday, it must live in all parts of the
city not just downtown or in cultural institutions. One
mechanism to distribute art is to provide pocket or pop-
up parlors in neighborhoods. Make small public spaces
available for installations, murals or performances. In
New York City, for example, the Parks Department hasmade small venues available throughout the city for
curated exhibitions. Other inspiring examples include:
Pianos in San Jose, Bryant Park (NYC), Storefront for
Art & Architecture (NYC), Village of Art and Humanity
in Philadelphia and San Franciscos Local Arts/Gallery
Program.
To accomplish the ambition, cities must makefundamental nancial and cultural commitments. In
Indianapolis, the local team requested that one percent
of the $400 million the city will receive for the sale of
its water infrastructure be applied to the art, design
and implementation of new infrastructure, and that
the entire $400 million be applied to important, visible
civil infrastructure projects.
3. ART IN EVERYNEIGHBORHOOD
4. 1% FOR ART,100% FOR BEAUTY
5. EXPAND THEDEFINITION OF PUBLICART
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6. RECONNECT TO THE RIVER
7. UNPAVE PARADISE WITHGREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
Thirty years ago no one could imagine the Bronx River to be anything other than
the open sewer that it was, yet today it is, in many parts, a peaceful corridor that you
can use for canoeing shing, strolling, biking and nature study.
- Adrian Benepe, NYC Parks Commissioner
Most American cities were sited in proximity to rivers, lakes and
other features that supplied their economic base. Today, riverfronts
once treated as industrial ports of harbor are being reclaimed forrecreation and even residential uses, creating new economic value
that fosters social connections and reaps environmental benets.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art won a Mayors Institute on
City Design 25th Anniversary grant for its series of site-specic
installations along the White River called FLOW (Can You See the
River?). The project was designed to reveal important and unique
elements of the water system through a series of installations at
stopping points along the river and canal, engaging residents and
increasing awareness of the watershed and the role it plays in the
citys life. The artist is New York-based Mary Miss and the project isone of a number of initiatives at White River State Park to turn it into
a four season destination and to make it the start of a 7-mile hiking/
biking loop.
The extensive use of asphalt and paving in American cities not
only isolates citizens from nature, but also reduces the ecosystem
services of trees, soils and waterways and requires costlyinfrastructure. Rain gardens, urban forestry programs and storm
water management are beautication strategies that can help city
ocials think dierently about infrastructure investments when
budget time rolls around.
TRANSLATE BEST PRACTICES INTO PUBLIC POLICYParks and recreation enthusiasts need to frame the role of green
space in storm water management practices and share best practices
with their Departments of Public Works. A demonstration project
could include using alleys for inltration.
RECLAIM CITY STREETS FOR GREEN SPACEPARKing Day is an annual, worldwide event that asks cities to
transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the
public good for one day. It is designed to convey the fact that in
many cities, downtown streets are too wide and can be repurposed
for non-auto uses like bike lanes, wider sidewalks or pedestrian
zones and street scaping.
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Walking and bike paths that connect city residents with cultural
districts facilitate healthy activity and social vibrancy. Indianapolis
already possesses one of the great urban cultural trails in the UnitedStatesthe Indianapolis Cultural Trail, winner of a prestigious
Round I TIGER grant from theh US Department of Transportation.
Residents can rent bikes and Segways to use on the Trail, which
connects all ve of the citys cultural districts in an award-winning
pedestrian greenway. Eorts are underway through the Indianapolis
Parks Department to make meaningful connections to the citys
system of bike paths and hiking trails.
8. BUILD GREEN NETWORKSThe public realm is the least expensive of all the things to change, and is the
most impactful. It is the thing that will change everyones life.
-David Rubin, Principal, OLIN
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9. NURTURE NEIGHBORHOODSWe talk a lot about not just livability, but lovability. If you get the relationship
(with land, nature and each other) right, and if we nurture that relationship, we
can bring our cities to lovability.
- Will Rogers, President, Trust for Public Land
Small public spaces, quality landscapes and buildingscan contribute to the quality of life of residents in at-risk
neighborhoods when they are designed for culturally relevant
programs. Public spaces that are designed for neighborhoods
need to reect the cultural background and artistic sensitivity
of residents in the neighborhoods. These spaces become
more sustainable when the people are listened to, invited
to participate and encouraged to express themselves in the
process. In addition to creating quality landscape and buildings,
mural art is an eective medium to achieve these goals. There
is an opportunity to demonstrate how this could be done in
Indianapolis Martindale neighborhood. Successful examples
include the mural arts program in Philadelphia, Los Angeles,
and Chicago.
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Re-conceiving the city as a park changes our minds about what it is
to be urban. By transforming an under-utilized asset along its West
Side Highway, New York Citys High Line has become one of the mostvisited attractions in the city, even surpassing the Metropolitan
Museum of Art with 5 million visitors in its rst year. The long-
defunct elevated rail line is now a mile-long pedestrian park and
greenway that connects Manhattans Meatpacking District to
Midtown. On any given day, people can be seen exercising, strolling
and even lounging on the abundant built-in furniture. Using tracks
as planters, for example, the High Line retains some of its original
form but has been otherwise entirely re-imagined. The result has
been transformative.
IMPLEMENT THE 10-MINUTE WALK RULEThe local team in Indianapolis saw the 10-minute walk as animportant aspiration. That is, no citizen should be more than 10
minutes from a green space, playground or public plaza, an ambitious
goal laid out for New York in PlaNYC that should be the ambition of
all cities. Equity mapping was identied a natural rst step toward
making this vision a reality in Indianapolis.
10. CONSIDER THE CITY A PARK
This is the century of the city. Its also the century of parks.
- Will Rogers, The Trust for Public Land
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CHALLENGE PARTICIPANTS
Robert Altman, Loftus Engineering, Inc.
Kiera Amstutz, Indiana Humanities Council
John Andrews, Shiel Sexton Company
Charles Bantz, IUPUI
Alicia Barnett, Making Connections Indianapolis
Tammie Barney, The Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Com-
merce
Frank Basile, Gene B. Glick Company, Inc.Katrina Basile, F. C. Tucker Company
Ted Blahnik, Williams Creek Consulting
Chris Boardman, RATIO Architects
Ted Boehm, Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission
Phyllis Boyd, Green 3
Ryan Brady, Central Indiana Community Foundation
Matt Carter, MusicCrossroads
Tim Carter, Center for Urban Ecology
Rosemary Dorsa, Central Indiana Community Foundation
Adam Drisin, Florida International University School of Archi-
tecture
Kristina Ehlers, Loftus Engineering, Inc.
Robbi Farschman, Syracuse University Connective CorridorGreg Fennig, Indianapois Power & Light Company, Inc.
Tom Gallagher, RATIO Architects
Sanford Garner, A2SO4
Jane Gehlhausen, City of Indianapolis
Marianne Glick, Glick Training Associates
Pamela Griesemer, KERAMIDA, Inc.
Matthew Hale, Ablerock Design
Kren Haley, City of Indianapolis
Tom Harton, Indianapolis Business Journal
Barth Hendrickson, Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects
Robert Herzog, Harrison College
Abbe Holmann, Cassidy Turley
Emily Holt
Steve Holt, Holt, Fleck & Romine, LLC
David Hoppe, NUVO
Ben Houle, Woolpert
Michael Huber, City of Indianapolis
Harriet Ivey, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
Ben Jennings, Ben Jennings Design LLC
Michael Kaufmann, Asthmatic Kitty records
Lindsay Kinkade, Rhode Island School of Design
Julia Klaiber, CEOs for Cities
Andre Lacy, LDI, Ltd.
Dave Lawrence, Arts Council of Indianapolis
Tad Lupton, beyond Architecture
Andy Lutz, City of Indianapolis
Je Mader, Mader Design LLC
Ali Malek, Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz, Inc.
Scott Minor, Green 3
Ann Murtlow, Indianapolis Power & Light Company
Jackie Nytes, Mapleton-Fall Creek Development Corp
Kevin Osburn, Rundell Ernstberger Associates
Gail Payne, The Goods: Thoughtful Marketing, Authentic Living
Greg Perry, Writer / ProducerBrent Pierson, Documentary Film Maker
Maury Plambeck
Cindy Porteous, Indianapolis Parks Foundation
Bob Reynolds, Barnes & Thornburg
Aaron Reynolds, Jacobi, Toombs & Lanz, Inc.
Mindy Ross, Art Strategies, LLC
David Roth, Synthesis Incorporated
Douglas Scarboro, City of Memphis
Scott Schroeder, Turner Construction Company
Tysha Sellers, Edna Martin Christian Center
Kathy Shorter, HARMONI
Jay Slifer, Jay Slifer Design
Mike SmithDenny Sponsel, RJE Furniture
Tony Steinhardt, RATIO Architects
Steven Stolen, Indiana Repertory Theatre
Brian Sullivan, Shiel Sexton
Bill Taft, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Joanna Taft, Herron High School
Adam Thies, EDEN Collaborative
Jim Thomas, Hearthview Residential, LLC
Milt Thompson, Grand Slam Companies
Michael Twyman, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
Ryan Vaughn, Indianapolis City Council
Jim Walker, Big Car Gallery
Julia Watson, Indianapolis Downtown, Inc.Bob Weaver, Flat 12 Bierwerks
Joe Webb, Miami-Dade County Dept. of Parks & Recreation
Don Welsh, Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Bureau
Bob Whitt, White River State Park
Molly Wilkinson Chavers, IndyHub
Molly Williams, Indianapolis Downtown, Inc.
Rob Wynkoop, Indiana Department of Administration
Ace Yakey, Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Tamara Zahn, Indianapolis Dowtown Inc.
Raul Zavaleta, Volatus Advisors, LLC
SPECIAL THANKSThe Livability Challenge was made possible with generous support from the Central Indiana Community
Foundation and Indianapolis Downtown Inc. Additional in-kind support was provided by the Indiana Repertory
Theatre.
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