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6th
Annual Urban Design Conference
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Raleigh Convention Center
2 East South Street
8 am to 4:30 pm
Healthy City
> Healthy People: Design Solutions
The
6th Annual Urban Design Conference, Healthy City > Healthy People:
Design Solutions, will provide case studies and strategies for design
and planning of urban environments that enhance the health and well-being of
their citizens. Presenters will address specific issues of transportation
choices, open space, mixed-use development, promotion of physical activity and
social opportunities, initiatives that reduce human impact on the environment
and spur progressive economic development, and planning processes which promote
a healthy built environment.
SPEAKERS:
Eugene Conti, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Transportation, The
Road to Healthy Living: Strategic Transportation Planning and Prioritization
Sadhu Johnston, Chief
Environmental Officer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office, City of
Chicago, Chicago Climate Action Plan: 35 Ways to Ensure a Resilient City
Lawrence Scarpa, AIA.
Pugh + Scarpa Architects, Santa Monica, Ca.
Livable Places: Ideas for Affordable and Sustainable Mixed-use
Communities
James Charlier,
AICP,
Charlier Associates, Boulder, Co. (transportation planning; growth management) Five
Practical Steps to Healthy, Sustainable Mobility
Cynthia Girling, Professor and
Chair of Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia (author of
“Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods: Design for Environment and
Community”) Sustainable Urbanism: integrating density, livability,
transportation and healthy environments
Mindy Fullilove,
M.D.,
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Sociomedical
Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center (author of “Root Shock: How
Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurt America and What We Can Do About It”)
Public Psychology of Urban Design
Jesse Day
Piedmont Triad Council of
Governments
2216 W. Meadowview Road Suite 201
Greensboro, NC 27407-3480
Phone: 336.294.4950
Fax: 336.632.0457
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