NPSG13-102

Crowd-sourced Urbanism: No One Knows as Much as Everyone

Speakers: Jase Wilson, CEO, Neighbor.ly; Zach Flanders, AICP, Urban Planner, BNIM

Technology is enabling a radical democratization in the planning and development of cities. Social media and crowd-sourcing tools are revealing a preference for smart growth principles and vibrant urban districts, and they are giving citizens the power to transform urban spaces to fit their preferences. During this session, participants learn how to use social media technologies and crowdsourcing to build movements for urban change and raise funds for implementation. Real-world examples include crowd-funding for the Kansas City Streetcar, Better Block KC (a crowd-sourced temporary transformation of Grand Boulevard), and KCMomentum, a tool for Kansas Citians to improve their city. Whether you represent the public sector, a private business or an invested citizen, this session gives you the tools to engage the crowd and build something great!

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$15.00

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NPSG13-210

Streetcar Projects Encouraging Smart Growth Coast to Coast

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

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NPSG13-305

Howling Winds and Ominous Skies: Disaster Resilience in the Age of Climate Change

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-302

Planning and Implementing Smart Growth in Native Communities

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-225

Looking Back, Moving Ahead: Green Building and Historic Preservation in Transit Stations

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

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NPSG13-304

Food Access Equity: From Policy to Action

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-157

Land Use Planning for Coastal Communities

Speakers: Flo Meadows, Realtor, Coldwell Banker; Camille Manning-Broome, Director of Planning, Center for Planning Excellence. Moderator: Janet Tharp, Principal, Tharp Planning Group.

Combined risks of erosion, subsidence and sea level rise are making coastal living much more challenging. How can we assist citizens, officials and developers in making critical (re)development decisions with living in risky places? Using chips depicting flood reduction features and building types, groups of participants will map complete communities in an environment that has constraints such as a 100-year floodplain, forested areas, water bodies, and agricultural land. Hear participants discuss the development choices they made and their consequences on the natural environment and the communities.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

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NPSG13-300

Morning Plenary — Smart Growth and Your Tax Dollar, Making Sense of It All

Charles Marohn, Jr., Executive Director, Strong Towns Joe Minicozzi, Urban 3, Ashley Swearengin, Mayor, City of Fresno

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-156

Do it Here, You Can Do it Anywhere! Complete Streets in Missouri

Speakers: Ed Kraemer, Co-Chair, Lee’s Summit City Health Education Advisory Board; Michael Park, City Traffic Engineer, City of Lee’s Summit, MO; Marlene Nagel, Community Development Director, Mid-America Regional Council.

(2 hour session) Just six years ago, Missouri had only three Complete Streets policies. Now the state has more than 20 Complete Streets policies at the local, regional and statewide level, and has been identified as one of the leaders in the nationwide Complete Streets movement. All six of the state’s six largest cities have now adopted Complete Streets policies; citywide Complete Streets policies cover over 1.4 million of the state’s residents. At the metropolitan planning organization level, Complete Streets policies cover more than half of the state’s residents. How were these policies created and adopted? What were the strategies used by advocacy groups, agencies and local citizens? What challenges did they face in creating and adopting policies? How did they overcome the objections? How successful have the policies been? What challenges are advocates, citizens and agencies facing now? Get a take-home list of strategies, ideas and examples.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-112

Greening Rural Communities: Smart Growth, Sustainability & Small to Mid-sized Town Neighborhood Development in North Carolina

Speakers: Frank Wilson, Mayor, City of Bolton, NC; Terry Bellamy, Mayor, City of Ashville, NC. Moderator: Deeohn Ferris, President, Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc.

The challenges of transitioning to the new more energy-efficient economy and achieving smart growth and sustainable development take on different dimensions in rural and small municipalities due to smaller economies. Transitioning to a green economy is complicated by the challenges of attracting and retaining employers, the tax base, and the scale of rural unemployment. Mayors are the front-line policy decision-makers at the local level who are responsible for ensuring that all citizens benefit from the tools and resources of the emerging green economy while addressing key issues that principally affect distressed neighborhoods. In this session, rural and small to mid-sized town mayors discuss ways that their development strategies have addressed equity issues in North Carolina communities. The audience is encouraged to share rural and small to mid-sized town initiatives that have worked in other states, challenges, best practices and lessons learned.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-101

Intercity Passenger Rail in America: Creating Regional Centers

Speakers: Wayne Aldrich, Development Director, Town of Normal, IL; Brian Harner, Architect, Union Station Redevelopment Corporation; Wilma Quan, Urban Planning Specialist, City of Fresno, CA

As the nation considers building new high-speed rail connections and strengthening existing intercity passenger rail networks, communities large and small are thinking about leveraging rail assets in new ways. Many metropolitan areas have plans to revitalize historic stations into multimodal and economic centers, while smaller communities reassess how to leverage intercity rail stations into a regional economic development strategy. This session addresses such questions as: How can stations catalyze TOD-like development patterns and help curb sprawl? How can high-speed rail stations become regional growth centers? How can good station area planning concentrate jobs and growth? Speakers offer case studies from a metropolitan area focusing on economic development and multimodal connectivity at Washington, DC, Union Station; planning for a new High Speed Rail station in Fresno, CA, to refocus economic growth and jobs downtown; and revitalization of a small-town Main Street centered on rehabilitation of an historic train depot.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-306

Smart Growth Citizenship: How Grassroots Action is Transforming Communities

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-01D

WORKSHOP: Using Regional Equity Indicators

Speakers: John Fierro, Alfred Henson, Amanda Martin, Victor Rubin

Participants learn about a new methodology and a set of indicators for analyzing regional equity, and how to use this analysis to inform regional and sustainable community planning, economic and workforce development, and land use transportation planning efforts. A trainer from PolicyLink instructs attendees on how to conduct a regional equity analysis, and how to interpret demographic, economic, educational, health, housing and transportation indicators. Government staff and community leaders discuss how they are translating equity analyses to policy and on-the-ground work.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-322

New Approaches to Engaging Industrial Neighbors in Community Planning and Smart Growth Development

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-104

Small Housing Trends: Recession Survival Tactics & Moving Forward

Speakers: Debra Bassert, Vice President of Land Use Policy, National Association of Home Builders; Donald Powers, Founding Partner, Union Studio; Dena Belzer, President, Strategic Economics; Toby Rittner, President and CEO, Council of Development Finance Agencies; John Williams, Chair and CEO, Impact Infrastructure

Entrepreneurial builders have worked through the recession by capitalizing on trends toward smaller housing. Demographic trends and housing surveys identify a growing interest in buyers and renters for smaller housing units. In new communities or infill projects, big or small markets, these builders have noticed the trends and have responded with new models for attached and detached units at various price points. With changing preferences among Generation Y and boomers, unstable oil prices and volatility in the costs of construction, builders are giving more consideration to what and where they build. The demand for smaller housing transcends economic conditions. Hear what these builders are saying about working through the recession, and what is needed to thrive as the housing market improves and a New Normal is established. The panelists offer insight into finance, zoning, design, construction, demographics and placemaking, as we explore the growing opportunity in small housing.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-151

Cleaning-Up Freight Projects through Community Tools and the National Environmental Policy Act

Speakers: Kim Gaddy, Environmental Justice Organizer, New Jersey Environmental Federation and Clean Water Fund; Alexandra Bambas Nolen, PhD, MPH, Director, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities; Denny Larson, Executive Director, Global Community Monitor; Melissa Lin Perrella, Senior Attorney, Natural Resource Defense Council. Moderator: David Fukuzawa, Program Director, The Kresge Foundation

(2 hour session) Ports, rail yards and truck corridors are creating increased health, environmental, community and labor costs. Air pollution created by the freight transportation industry is associated with increased asthma in children, cancer, heart attacks, strokes and premature death. Currently, many freight projects go through a public process mandated by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before they can be approved. In this session, we describe ways communities can influence the NEPA process to ensure the environmental and public health impacts of freight projects are adequately disclosed. We also provide hands-on instruction on community-based participatory research tools including, health impact assessments (HIA), and community-led air quality monitoring and mapping, which can help communities build capacity to address air pollution.

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$20.00

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NPSG13-154

Building Blocks: Making Smart Growth Happen at the Local Level

Speakers: Roger Millar, PE, AICP, Vice President, Smart Growth America; Phillip Myrick, AICP, Senior Vice President, Project for Public Spaces; Jeff Aken, Communities Program Manager, Forterra; Scott Allen, AICP, Community Development Director, City of Blue Springs, MO; Raymond Lai, AICP, Deputy Director, City of University City, MO; Barbara Goode, Pollution Prevention Specialist, Kansas State University Pollution Prevention Institute. David Doyle, Sustainable Communities Coordinator, U.S. EPA, Region 7

Many communities around the country are asking for tools and resources to help them achieve their desired development goals, improve the quality of life for their residents, and make their communities more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. In response to this demand, EPA developed the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program. Building Blocks seeks to provide quick, targeted technical assistance to communities using a variety of tools that have demonstrated results and widespread application. This technical assistance helps selected local and tribal governments implement development approaches that protect the environment, improve public health, create jobs, expand economic opportunity, and make communities more livable. The panelists present an overview of the tools being offered and a summary of the experiences over the first two rounds of this program, and also provide information on how to apply for technical assistance in the future.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

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Subtotal

$365.00