Boise State University Special Collections and Archives
Boise Futures Foundation Records
MSS 044
2.75 linear feet
4 boxes
1974-1992
The Boise Futures Foundations Records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, research, studies, surveys, bibliographies, publications, and other documents about city planning and infrastructure from the 1970s-1990s.
English
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Collection process by Special Collections and Archives staff.
See also University Archives Publications series 2, 14, and 32.
See also Boise Redevelopment Agency Records, Community Council of Greater Boise Records, and Charles Hummel Collection on Boise, Idaho City Planning.
Collection is available for research.
The Boise Futures Foundation, a nonprofit research and educational organization, was established in 1978 to study the natural and human resource systems in Ada County. The Foundation was a private planning entity housed on the Boise State University Campus in the Office of Research Administration. The initial focus of its study was the carrying capacity, which is a measure of an area's ability to support varying numbers of people and their activities at different quality of life levels. The study analyzed the area's ability to accommodate development and recommended guidelines to be followed as the Boise area grew. In 1982, the Foundation published six volumes of their findings.
The Boise Futures Foundations Records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, research, studies, surveys, bibliographies, publications, and other documents about city planning and infrastructure from the 1970s-1990s.
[item description], Boise Futures Foundation Records, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Land use
Public buildings
Urban transportation
Water resources development
City Planning
Historic buildings
Architecture
Architecture
Boise
City Planning
Idaho
Transportation
Land use
Mission Statement
undated
1
1
Mission Statement
1992
1
2
Beginning Concepts
1982
1
3
Background
undated
1
4
Brochures
undated
1
5
Board of Trustees
1982-1993
1
6-9
Consultants
1983-1984
1
10
Contributors
1982-1993
1
11-22
Correspondence
1983-1991
1
23-28
Executive Committee
1982-1993
1
29-41
Fact Sheet
1985
1
42
Finances
1982-1989
1
43-49
Grants
1988
1
50
News Coverage
1984-1988
1
51
News Releases
1984-1988
1
52
Questionnaires, Outside Institutions
undated
1
53
Reports, Costs
1982
1
54
Boise Futures Committee
1989
1
55
Boise Vision Steering Committee
1989
1
56
Air Quality Resource
1982
2
1-2
Report: Basic Model
undated
2
3
Report: Boise R/UDAT
1985
2
4
Report: Boise 2010 Directions for the Future
1989
2
5
Report: Energy Resource System
1982-1984
2
6-9
Report: Greater Boise's Carrying Capacity
1982-1988
2
10-17
Report: Integrated Air Cancer Project
1985
2
18
Report: Land Resources
1984-1988
2
19-24
Report: Managing Community and Quality of Life
1987
2
25
Report: Paratransit Technical Information
1983
2
26
Report: Public Education System
1982-1983
2
27
Report: Public Servic System
1983-1987
2
28-33
Report: Quality of LIfe
1983
2
34-36
Report: Snake River Birds of Prey
1988
2
37
Report: Transportation System
1983-1987
2
38-40
Report: U.S. West and Idaho
1987
2
41
Report: Water Resources
1982-1985
2
42-44
Feasibility Analysis, Carrying Capacity Study for Boise Area
1979
2
45
Treasure Valley Infrastructure Study
1999
2
46-47
Proposed Boise Urban Design Plan
1979
2
48
Bibliographies
undated
2
49
Boise Metropolitan Transportation Study
1972
2
50
Carrying Capacity and Greater Boise
1982
2
51-56
U.S. Carrying Capacity: An Introduction by Maryla Webb and Judith Jacobsen
1982
3
1
Carrying Capacity APplicationsi n Growth Management by David R. Godschalk
1977
3
2
Carrying Capacity in Regional Environmental Management by Utah State University
1974
3
3
Carrying Capacity Analysis as a Practical Planning Approach by Norman Axler
1978
3
4
Carrying Capacity Study, Hawaii
1975-1977
3
5-6
Carrying Capacity Study, Texas
1977
3
7-8
Northwest Energy News
1987-1991
4
1-3
MANAS
1987
4
4