This document summarizes a presentation on good urbanism and fronting the public right of way. It includes: 1) An overview of the presentation given by Dr. Suja Lowenthal on the City of Long Beach's process to create a downtown plan through extensive community visioning and input. This resulted in design principles and an increased focus on walkability. 2) A description of the Long Beach visioning process led by Michael Bohn, which included community workshops and comparative city studies to create a vision statement and preliminary design concepts. 3) The presentation was part of a larger event on good urbanism and fronting the public right of way, with the third presenter being Stephanie Reich from