"The Three Planners: Rochester - An Unfinished symphony"
George Dark
Partner, Urban Strategies, Inc., Toronto, Canada
George Dark, urban designer and landscape architect with Urban Strategies, a prominent Canadian design firm, has led many of its largest, most complex projects. These include revitalization and growth management strategies and master plans for campuses, new communities, open space systems and institutions.
Jonathan Lane
Senior Principal, Icon Architecture, Inc.
Jon Lane’s expertise in planning for both heritage and housing districts is highly sought after both nationally and internationally. Mr. Lane’s research on modernization of public housing for US HUD and for the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing led to the development of the HOPE VI program.
Benjamin Wauford
Principal, Director of the New York Office, Cooper Carry, Inc.
Ben Wauford’s projects have received national attentionand awards including Underground Atlanta and the Master Plan for the Erie Canal Aqueduct and the Broad Street Corridor in Rochester, NY. Mr. Wauford’s writing and work have been published in Accent on Atlanta, Home Magazine and Better Homes and Gardens.
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Gianni LongoPrincipal, ACP Visioning and Planning, Ltd.
"Longing for Green Places"
For the past two decades, Gianni Longo has pioneered the development of planning programs designed to involve citizens in the decision making process. Mr. Longo conceived and developed Vision 2000, a first-of-its-kind community goal-setting process in Chattanooga, Tennessee that is credited with stimulating over a billion dollars in development projects in that community. Mr. Longo designed and facilitated Imagine New York: Giving Voice to the People's Visions, the APA award-winning effort to bring together people throughout the New York City region to share their ideas and vision for rebuilding downtown and memorializing the World Trade Center tragedy.
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Christopher LeinbergerVisiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; Professor of Practice and Director of the graduate Real Estate Program University of Michigan
"The New American Dream"
Christopher B. Leinberger is a land use strategist and developer, who combines an understanding of business realities with a concern for our nation's social and environmental issues. He is Professor of Practice and Director of the Graduate Real Estate Development Program at the University of Michigan, and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
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Howard Decker, FAIA"Rochester: Paradise Paved" URBAN OBSERVATIONS
Explore how we can be optimizing efficiency in a “no growth” world, following a route to better choices yielding positive economic andsocial outcomes.
Our community and the architecture profession is enriched by Decker’s passion for the built environment. An architect and Fellow (FAIA) of the American Institute of Architects and past Chief Curator of the National Building Museum in Washington, DC., Howard was a founding partner of DLK Architects, Inc. in Chicago, an award-winning historic preservation, urban design, and multi-scale design firm. He was Project Director at Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut, & Kuhn (EE&K) in Washington, DC and led several national multi-million dollar projects, one of which was awarded the AIA National Honor Award in Urban Design in 2007. Currently Howard is a consultant on urban design and transit matters for EE&K, while completing his research for a new book to be titled The Next City: Shaping a Usable Future.
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Dr. Timothy Beatley, PhDTeresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, Department of Urban & Environmental Planning, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
"100 Mile Thanksgiving-Celebrating local communities and economies"
Explore how we can be optimizing efficiency in a “no growth” world, following a route to better choices yielding positive economic andsocial outcomes.
Timothy Beatley’s primary teaching and research are in environmental planning and policy. In recent years much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable. Dr. Beatley’s most recently published books include Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities, and Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age.
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John Robert SmithPresident and CEO, Reconnecting America; Former Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi
Getting on the Right Track
John Robert Smith is the former Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, and a long-time activist on behalf of passenger rail. He is co-chairman of the National Forum on the Future of Passenger Rail, is a member of Amtrak’s board, and a member of the transportation committees of the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He is a veteran of the station-centered community development movement, and led the drive to renovate the City of Meridian’s Union Station, a $7 million historic restoration project that created a new multimodal transportation center, dramatically increased use of the station, raised property values and city tax receipts, and lowered crime in the station's neighborhood. He served on Reconnecting America’s board for five years, and was a founding partner and board member of Reconnecting America’s predecessor organization, the Great American Station Foundation, voting to expand its mission and change its name in 2004.
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Lawrence Frank
Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation, University of British Columbia. Co-Author: Urban Sprawl and Public Health
Sprawl: Unhealthy Consequences
Lawrence D. Frank, Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA, is the Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation at the University of British Columbia, Senior Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution, and President of Urban Design 4 Health. He specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality; and health and the fuel consumption and climate change impacts of urban form policies. Frank has been studying the effects of neighborhood walkability on travel patterns and sustainability for 20 years. He works directly with local governments to help translate results from research into practice-based tools that provide direct feedback on the health and environmental impacts of alternative transportation and land development proposals.
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Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA
Director, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture; Author: Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
Retrofitting Suburbia
Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, a world-renowned expert on urban and suburban design, is director of architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, and on the board of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Widely recognized as a leader in finding solutions for aging suburbs, she co-authored Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs and more than 35 other articles and book chapters. Dunham-Jones has received more than 20 awards for her work in architectural design, education and research and is a frequent speaker on urban design, sprawl, planning, and changing demographics appearing on CNN and CBS, and in Newsweek, Time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Boston Globe.
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Emily Talen, PhD
Professor School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Diversity & the Power of Place
Emily Talen is a professor at Arizona State University (ASU), where she has two affiliations: the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Sustainability. She holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Ohio State University. Prior to joining ASU, she was a professor in the department of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana for eight years.
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Geoffrey Anderson
President and CEO Smart Growth America
Smart Choices/Smart Growth
Geoff Anderson is the President and CEO of Smart Growth America. Prior to joining Smart Growth in 2008 Anderson spent 13 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where he headed the Agency's Smart Growth Program. At the EPA, he was instrumental in creating the Agency's Smart Growth program. He helped found the Smart Growth Network, the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, and the popular Web site smartgrowth.org. In addition, he provided seed funding for and helped to catalyze the creation of the National Vacant Properties Campaign, The LEED for Neighborhood Development Certification program, and the Governors' Institute for Community Design.
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Alan Greenberger
Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission
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Planning for the Post-Industrial City, Initiatives from Philadelphia
Planning for the Post-Industrial City addresses long-term growth strategies, issues of now-fallow land, connections between communities and a city's natural resources, understanding of current and future economic drivers, and how improved linkages between all are key to growth and success in a very competitive world. Also discussed “Urban Acupuncture” – a concept to describe how energy flows in cities and how, when it is blocked, both government and citizens have to step in to unblock it.
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Jacky Grimshaw
Vice President, Policy, Transportation, and Community Development Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Neighborhood Revitalization & the Importance of Transit-Oriented Development
Jacky Grimshaw explains how Transit-Oriented Development serves as a powerful Economic Engine & catalyst for neighborhood revitalization. She is the Vice President for Policy, Transportation, and Community Development at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago.
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Mayor George Heartwell & Suzanne Schulz, AICP
Mayor & Director of Planning, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The New Green Cities: A Model for Municipal Stewardship
George Heartwell & Suzanne Schulz, AICP, the mayor and planning director of Grand Rapids, Michigan, share with Rochester how they have earned their city the distinction of being the "Center of Expertise" in sustainability. Grand Rapids' Master Plan has been updated to include 21st century ideals including citizen-based planning, walkability, placemaking, and green guidlines.
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Robert Fishman, PhD
Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Author: "Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia"
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The Fifth Migration: Return to the Urban Core
Robert Fishman discusses the evolution of human patterns after sprawl, describing the potential, or possibly the imminent return to central cities and its challenges for planning. He is one of the country's most insightful historians and is a nationally recognized expert in urban history, urban policy and urban planning.
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Douglas Farr, AIA
President & CEO, Farr Associates
Author: "Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature"
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Planning for Rochester's Green Surge
Doug guides us as we "Plan for Rochester's Green Surge". A new administration and new ways of thinking about the economy dictate how our communities will prevail. Doug has been instrumental in establishing "green" guidelines for land use planning and neighborhood development.
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W. Cecil Steward, FAIA
Founding President, Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities, Omaha, NE
Profiles in Leadership for Sustainability
Cecil is a world expert on design practices for green building, sustainable community development, and preservation of environmental quality. He offers examples and presenting case studies of how leadership can effectively enhance Quality of Life by promoting economic and environmental stewardship.
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Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
Visiting Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UCLA
Planning & Designing Healthy Environments for Healthy People
Richard Jackson addresses how land use and transportation planning policies have negatively impacted personal and public health and environmental quality.
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William Hudnut, III
Senior Resident Fellow, Urban Land Institute, Washington DC
First Tier Suburbs and Partnering to Promote Revitalization Benefits to Suburbs and City
William Hudnut is probably best known for his sixteen-year tenure as Mayor of Indianapolis, 1976-1991. He spearheaded the formation of a public-private sector partnership that led to Indianapolis’ emergence during the 1980s as a major American city.
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David Boehlke
Founding Member, Healthy Neighborhoods Group
Healthy Neighborhoods: a Revitalization Strategy
David Boehlke is a nationally recognized expert in neighborhood revitalization and our country’s leading authority on Healthy Neighborhoods. He has worked with over 100 cities and towns, emphasizing older neighborhoods with declining or stagnant populations.
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