Community Service Practice in Geography:
​Research and Resources


​2014: Urban Ecology
(Chico General Plan):
Community Design
Open Space & Environment
Safety

Aquatic/Biotic Resouces Inventory

The Importance of Nature and Wilderness in Our Urban Lives
Timothy Beatley (Biophilic Cities)

Chico Draft Urban Forest Management Plan

The Ecological Footprint: An Indicator of Progress Toward Regional Sustainability
Mathis Wackernagel & J. David Yount

Growth: Of What? For What?
Northwest Environment Watch (This Place on Earth 2002)

Iron Canyon Fish Ladder Project: Description

Iron Canyon Fish Ladder Project: Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration

Little Chico Creek Watershed Existing Conditions Report

Little Chico Creek: Pomona Avenue - Salem Street

An Overview of Greenways
Daniel S. Smith (Ecology of Greenways)

What Can Communities Do?
Rob Hopkins (The Post Carbon Reader Series: Building Resilience)

Planting a Tree
Michael Pollan (Second Nature: A Gardener's Education)

Sandy Gulch (Lindo Channel) Resource Inventory
Geo Environmental Management

Assessing Urban Forest Effects & Values

This Place on Earth 2002
Northwest Environmental Watch

Totem Salmon
​Freeman House


​2015: Informal Geography
Happy Enough
Dee Williams (The Big Tiny)

California Uniform Building Code
(California Residential Code)

Cartopia
Kelly Rodgers & Kelley Roy

Campus Map
(California State University, Chico)

Katherine McCamant & Charles Durrett (Creating Cohousing):
Chapter 1: Addressing Our Lifestyle Changes
Chapter 2: How Cohousing Works
Chapter 3: And Old Idea-A Contemporary Approach

Cottage Food Operation
Cathy A. Raevsky & Mark D. Lundberg, M.D., M.P.H. (Butte County Public Health)

Sordid Signs
Jeff Ferrell (Empire of the Scrounge)

Part 1
Steven Shomler (Food Cart Stories)

Rich Mintzer (Start Your Own Food Truck Business):
Social Media
From Hot Dog Wagons to Bustaurants
Can I Park Here?
The Work Environment

David Weber (The Food Truck Handbook):
Social Media
Playing by the Rules
Picking Vending Locations

Garage and Yard Sales
(Chico Municipal Code)

How to Study Public Life
Jan Gehl

Introduction
Vinit Mukhija & Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (The Informal American City)

The Garage Sale as Informal Economy & Transformative Urbanism
Margaret Crawford (The Informal American City)

Mobile Food Facility
(Butte County Public Health)

Andrew Heben (Tent City Urbanism)
Introduction & Chapter 1: Tent Cities Today
Chapter 2: Controlling & Reclaiming Space
Chapter 3: Tiny Houses

Tent Cities in America (National Coalition for the Homeless)

Michael Janzen (Tiny House Floor Plans):
Introduction
Chapter 10: 12x16 + Loft
Chapter 11: 12x20
Chapter 12: 12x20 + Loft

Ryan Mitchell (Tiny House Living)
Chapter 1: The Tiny House Lifestyle (A)
Chapter 1: The Tiny House Lifestyle (B)
Chapter 2: Why Choose Voluntary Simplicity? (A)
Chapter 2: Why Choose Voluntary Simplicity? (B)
Chapter 3: The Tiny House Movement

Tiny House Codes
​(California Residential Building Code)

Tiny Revolution


​2016: Climate Change
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