THE P LY– CENTRIC CITY

CNUXIII P ASADENA CA JUNE 9–12, 2005 CNU XIII SPONSORS

WELCOMING HOST IN-KIND DONORS PASADENA EXECUTIVE and Southern California Catellus Development Corporation COMMITTEE Building Industry Association County Metropolitan Jim Anderson, Anderson Pacific, LLP Channing Henry Transportation Authority Vinayak Bharne, Moule & Polyzoides Lynn Jacobs MAJOR EVENT SPONSORS Metrolink Howard Blackson, HB3 Urban Design Barbara Kaiser Lloyd Properties Art Cueto, LandTrans Susan Kamei Rossi Enterprises CNU XIII PARTNERS John Dutton, Nicholas Budd Dutton Sandra Kulli AIA Architects Jeff Lee FOUNDING URBANISTS America Walks William Lieberman, Transit Planning Ryan Lehman Anderson Pacific, LLC American Institute of Architects & Design Jane Lindsey-Wingfield Palmer Investments Building Industry Association of Alan Loomis, Moule & Polyzoides Andy Lipkis Southern California Elizabeth Moule, Moule & Polyzoides Doss Mabe TOWN BUILDERS California Department of Housing Jean-Maurice Moulene, Moule & Javier Mariscal Boyd Willat-7 Fountains Development and Community Development Polyzoides Wally Marks Cornish Associates, LP California Building Industry Association Gloria Ohland, Reconnecting America Kenneth McCormick Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company California Downtown Association Katherine Perez, Transportation and Mitchell Menzer Forest City Development Cal/EPA Land Use Collaborative Sue Mossman John Laing Homes Caltrans Stefanos Polyzoides, Moule & Deborah Murphy Moule & Polyzoides Architects Center for Civic Partnerships Polyzoides Nick Patsaouras and Urbanists Center for Neighborhood Technology Helen Rahder, City of Whittier Joyce Perkins Reconnecting America Central City Association Marsha Rood, Urban Reinventions Mark Pisano V2V Acquisitions and Development Co. Council for European Urbanism Jack Skelley, Roddan, Paolucci, Steve Preston Friends of the Los Angeles River Roddan Joel Reynolds MASTER BUILDERS Funders’ Network for Smart Growth Mott Smith, Civic Enterprises James Rojas BA Studios and Livable Communities Associates Jun Sakumoto Capri Capital Advisors, LLC Global Green USA Curt Stiles, CPS Landscape David Sargent National Association of Realtors Harborfront Community Coalition Architecture + Urban Design + Larry Segal Southern California Association Heal the Bay Town Planning Randy Shortridge of Governments INTBAU Bill Trimble, City of Pasadena Roger Snoble Studio One Eleven at Perkowitz + Latino Urban Forum Michael Woo, USC School of Policy, Laura Stetson Ruth Architects League of California Cities Planning, and Development Doug Storer Vista Del Arroyo Partners/ING Realty Local Government Commission Doug Suisman Walter N. Marks, Inc. Los Angeles Conservancy CNU XIII HOST COMMITTEE Martha Welborne Westwood Communities Corp Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative David Abel Kathryn Welch-Howe Los Angeles Walks John Andrews Walker Wells ENTREPRENEURS Metropolitan Transportation Authority Frank Artura Jennifer Wolch Arx Solutions Inc. National Association of Realtors John Baucke Al Zelinka Ayers/Saint/Gross Natural Resources Defense Council Maurie Biltz Economics Research Associates New Schools Better Neighborhoods Greg Brown CNU BOARD OF DIRECTORS Freedman Tung and Bottomley Pasadena Heritage Richard Bruckner Hank Dittmar, Chair Florida Atlantic University, Rail~Volution Mark Buckland Jacky Grimshaw, Vice chair Center for Urban and Reconnecting America Diego Cardoso Stephanie Bothwell, Treasurer Environmental Solutions Resources Agency Barbara Casey Jonathan Barnett Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Revitalization Institute John Chase Zach Borders Indivest Smart Growth America Tim Clark Peter Calthorpe Jensen Design & Survey Southern California Association Judy Corbett LeylandAlliance, LLC of Governments Paul Crawford Andrés Duany Looney Ricks Kiss Architects STPP Jonathan Curtis Raymond Gindroz Monrovia Growers Transportation and Land Use Vaughan Davies Art Lomenick New Urban News Collaborative of Southern California Nicholas Deitch Elizabeth Moule Opticos Design, Inc. TreePeople Michael Dieden Susan Mudd Solomon E.T.C. WRT Westside Urban Forum Dao Doan James Murley Woodbury University— Amy Forbes Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk SUPPORTERS School of Architecture and Design Gay Forbes Stefanos Polyzoides Cooper Carry, Inc. Doug Gardner Roxanne Qualls CPS Landscape Architecture John Given Daniel Solomon Crawford Multari & Clark Hassan Hagani Todd Zimmerman Georgino Development Veronica Hahni HB3 Urban Design Cyrus Hekmat Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc. Mainstreet Architects + Planners, Inc. CNU STAFF Phoenix Realty Group John O. Norquist, President and CEO Prairie Crossing Payton Chung, Membership Coordinator RBF Consulting Stephen Filmanowicz, Communications Director The Retrovest Companies David D. Hudson, Executive Vice President James Suhr Sandrine Milanello, Congress Coordinator Brenda Smith, Office Manager Heather Smith, Planning Director WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY KEY CNU XIII will examine the topic of the Polycentric City through both large plenary sessions—many of them on history—and smaller sessions organized around four topic threads that weave through JUNE 8 WEDNESDAY the program. After Thursday evening’s opening session, each thread will be represented in 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM most time slots for easy tracking over the three days of the GUIDED TOUR Congress. A URBANISM 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM H HISTORY A set of plenary addresses on the history of Los Angeles and 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM the history of the Polycentric City lays the foundation for the explo- CONGRESS REGISTRATION ration of the Congress theme. Civic Auditorium Lobby

T TRANSPORTATION Topics will include corridor JUNE 9 THURSDAY design, transit, smart cars, park- ing, and efforts by ITE and CNU to rewrite existing design guide- lines for major thoroughfares. 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM

ENVIRONMENT CONGRESS REGISTRATION E Civic Auditorium Lobby This thread will address urban design and environmental stew- ardship through sustainable land- 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM scape, intelligent water and ener- gy use, health and pollution NEW URBANISM 101 issues, and the development of Room 103/104 LEED neighborhood standards. This day-long New Urbanism primer includes an illustrated introduction to the movement’s history and principles, as P PHYSICAL DESIGN well as techniques from zoning to street design. Lecturers Topics include form-based codes, include some of the movement’s leading figures, with a spe- cial focus on Southern California. creative use of building typolo- Speakers: gies, sustainable landscape John Norquist, President and CEO, Congress for design, suburban retrofits and the New Urbanism town centers, the impact of retail, John Torti, Principal, Torti Gallas and Partners and how the rural-to-urban tran- Joe DiSteffano, Associate, Calthorpe & Associates sect can be applied to places of Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk and multiple centers. Company Galina Tahchieva, Associate, Duany Plater-Zyberk I IMPLEMENTATION and Company This thread will explore New Charles Bohl, Director, Knight Program in Urbanism’s response to social Community Building, University of Miami Laurie Volk, Co-Director, Zimmerman/Volk and demographic trends and its Associates, Inc. interaction with policy and gover- Peter Swift, Principal, Swift and Associates nance mechanisms. Topics also include finance, economics, and regional issues. 2 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY

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9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

NEW URBANISM 202: INTENSIVE REVIEW OF LEED-ND STREETS FOR PEOPLE Room 106 Room 101/102 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (lunch on your own) Traffic engineers have begun working with New Urbanists to Intensive Review of LEED-ND Draft design streets that fit their urban contexts, serve as valued This all-day session is targeted to LEED-ND Corresponding public spaces, and truly welcome users of all modes. Learn Committee members and CNU attendees with experience about streets around the country that achieve this goal and relevant to the content of this proposed neighborhood rating what it takes to get them built. system. The morning session will give participants a detailed Moderator: knowledge of the LEED-ND draft through a thorough intro- Rick Hall, President, Hall Planning and Engineering duction to each proposed prerequisite and an overview of the credits and weighting. The afternoon session will allow NEW URBANISM 202: DENSITY 202: for more focused feedback along expert lines. Small working MULTIFAMILY IN INFILL SITUATIONS groups—organized according to topic areas within the Room 211 draft—will discuss and debate individual prerequisites and New Urbanists need multifamily housing to achieve transit- credits. The outcome of the event will be a verbal reporting. and retail-supportive densities, but too often its design takes Corresponding Committee members will be asked to pro- a back seat, increasing community resistance. Take a look vide specific written guidance in the future during the formal back at the traditional multifamily building blocks such as comment period. Time permitting, we also anticipate a brief courtyards and palazzo blocks. Then examine adaptations presentation on the results of a literature search on the rela- that address today’s concerns, including parking, accessibility, tionship between land use and public health prepared for the construction cost, and gently raising densities within low- LEED-ND project by DC&E Planners. density contexts. ––– 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Moderator: QUICK OVERVIEW OF LEED-ND Micheal Bohn, Senior Associate, Moule & Polyzoides This session is for early arrivals to the Congress and others Architects and Urbanists who did not choose to attend the daylong intensive review. NEW URBANISM 202: BUILDING It will be primarily informative with limited opportunity for COST-EFFICIENT HOUSING WITH interaction and feedback. ARCHITECTURAL CODES OR CALIFORNIA PLANNING TODAY: PATTERN BOOKS TOP 5 CHALLENGES Room 107 Gold Room Most successful neighborhoods are built on a base of quali- This is a special all-day session led by CNU co-founder ty housing; in order to achieve this seemingly simple objec- Stefanos Polyzoides for officials, staff, and commissioners tive, builders need to be guided by developers and cities. from California Cities. This session will focus on five case This session will outline methods for assuring high-quality studies from CNU XIII’s host city of Pasadena. A panel of yet financially feasible housing. three New Urbanists will use the case studies to examine Speakers: and illuminate issues that are relevant to California. Todd Zimmerman, Principal, Zimmerman/Volk Advance sign up required. Associates Inc. Stephen Mouzon, Principal, PlaceMakers, Miami Nathan Norris, Director of Implementation Advisory, PlaceMakers, LLC Lou Marquet, Principal, Leyland Alliance, LLC Donald Powers, Principal, Donald Powers Architects Geoffrey Mouen, Principal-Owner, Geoffrey Mouen Architects Steve Lawton, Community Development Director, City of Hercules John Reagan, Principal, John Reagan Architects David Mayfield, President, Mayfield Development John Baucke, President and CEO, New Urban Reality Advisors, Inc.

Presented in cooperation with the National Town Builders Association CNUXIII PASADENA 3

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 2:15 PM – 5:15 PM

GUIDED TOURS NEW URBANISM 202: PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: B BUILDING COMMUNITY ALONG THE GOLD LINE WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN’T? 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room 101/102 C PUEBLO TO URBAN VILLAGE IN Financial feasibility of urban redevelopment increasingly DOWNTOWN LA depends on public sector involvement beyond TIFs and PILOTs. The city needs the developer to achieve revitaliza- 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM tion goals; the developer needs the city to make the num- D LATINO NEW URBANISM IN LA bers work. Explore the workings of successful deals and 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM outline common pitfalls. Moderator: E LOS ANGELES’ MOTHER LODE OF SPRAWL Todd Zimmerman, Principal, Zimmerman/Volk 8:00 – 12:00 AM PM Associates, Inc. F HISTORIC GREENFIELD TOWNS Speakers: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Chris Cole, Director of Projects, New Urban Builders James Gehman, Assistant Executive Director, Norfolk G SUSTAINABLE SANTA MONICA Redevelopment and Housing Authority 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Howard Kaufman, Executive Vice President, Leyland Alliance LLC H THE REAL LOS ANGELES David Scheuer, President, The Retrovest Companies 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Shawn Tillman, Senior Redevelopment Project I LONG BEACH GOES URBAN Coordinator, Redding Redevelopment Agency 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Macon Toledano, Vice President of Planning and Development, LeylandAlliance, LLC J EVOLUTION OF RETAIL IN Cynthia Van Zelm, Executive Director, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Mansfield Partnership 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Presented in cooperation with the K ORANGE COUNTY’S URBAN GROWTH IN National Town Builders Association FULLERTON AND BREA 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM NEW URBANISM 202: ENVIRONMENTAL PRIMER L GREAT PUBLIC BUILDINGS Room 107 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Following good urbanist practices takes one a big step M THE LOS ANGELES RIVER TODAY towards certification under the US Green Building Council’s AND TOMORROW LEED ratings system—but not far enough. A practitioner 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM with platinum- and gold-rated projects to his credit will pro- vide a primer on the green building techniques urbanists N COURTS, LOFTS, AND OTHER can’t afford to overlook, including water management, trans- URBAN HOUSING MODELS portation, energy, materials, and landscape design. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Speaker: Kevin Pierce, Principal, Farr Associates O GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS AND PUBLIC GARDENS NEW URBANISM 202: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM STRETCHING CODES P GREAT STREETS Room 211 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Do old zoning and building codes make life impossible, hindering good urbanism? Can’t wait for a multi-year code T DIRTY REAL URBANISM reform effort? Architects and municipal officials will give 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM tricks and tips for how to “stretch” your codes—through exceptions, variances, overlays and the like—without com- promising your principles. Speaker: Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company 4 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY

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OPENING RECEPTION AND WELCOME BY LOCAL COMMITTEE 7:30 AM –6 :00 PM Gold Room and Auditorium Terrace CONGRESS REGISTRATION Civic Auditorium Lobby 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

OPENING SESSION 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Auditorium Join us for the opening night of the 13th annual Congress. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST After a welcome from Local Host Committee Co-Chair Jim Auditorium Terrace and Convention Center Anderson and Pasadena Mayor , Los Angeles Lower Level Lobby Mayor Elect Antonio Villaraigosa will champion his vision for Los Angeles as the urban heart of polycentric Southern ASSEMBLY California. CNU Board Chair Hank Dittmar will open the Auditorium Terrace Congress with a brief report on CNU and its most vital initiatives. Hank will share a special message from His AM AM Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. Elizabeth Moule and 9:00 – 10:15 Stefanos Polyzoides, CNU co-founders and Board mem- T THE HIGH COST OF FREE PARKING bers, will welcome participants to the region with their SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION presentation, A Polycentric History: The Five Los Auditorium Angeleses. Since 1781, the city has been designed and Coffee Bar to Follow rebuilt four times; the region has a complex culture and Thread: Transportation rich history that reflects its diversity and unique urban Free parking isn’t really free. In fact, the average parking form. The presentation will explore the early roots of Los space costs more than the average car. Initially, developers Angeles as a pueblo, and the emergence of the town, the pay for the required parking, but soon tenants do, and then city, the metropolis, and finally the region. Moule and their customers, and so on, until the cost of parking has dif- fused throughout the economy. We pay for parking indirectly Polyzoides will introduce the audience to this complex because its cost is included in the price of everything from region, characterized by suburban sprawl, active downtown hamburgers to housing. The total subsidy for parking is stag- commercial districts, and extensive public transportation— gering. But free parking has other costs: It distorts trans- a multi-centered metropolis that makes up the Polycentric portation choices, warps urban form, and degrades the envi- City. CNU President and CEO John Norquist will deliver ronment. It doesn’t have to be this way. Donald Shoup pro- closing remarks. poses new ways for cities to regulate parking, namely charg- Speakers: ing fair market prices for curb parking, using the resulting Jim Anderson, President, AndersonPacific LLC revenue to pay for services in the neighborhoods that gener- Hon. Bill Bogaard, Mayor of Pasadena ate it, and removing zoning requirements for off-street park- Hon. Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor Elect, ing. Such measures, according to the Yale-trained econo- City of Los Angeles mist will make parking easier and driving less necessary. Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince’s Find out how free parking is devastating your city — and Foundation for the Built Environment what you can do about it. Elizabeth Moule, Principal, Moule and Polyzoides, Speaker: Architects and Urbanists Donald Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, University Stefanos Polyzoides, Principal, Moule and of California Los Angeles Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists John Norquist, President and CEO, Congress for E GREEN URBANISM the New Urbanism SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Room 106 COFFEE BAR CONVERSATIONS Coffee Bar to Follow Thread: Environment Following many breakout sessions will be a series of infor- Past CNU Charter Award winner and Los Angeles architect mal discussions on the Auditorium Terrace. Speakers and Elizabeth Moule has taken green urbanism to new heights panelists from previous sessions will seed these small, with the LEED Platinum rated Robert Redford Building for round-table discussions. The setting will allow for a more the Natural Resources Defense Council. Certified as green- direct and continuous exchange between Congress partici- est in the world, the NRDC building employs state-of-the-art pants and speakers. Check session descriptions to see environmental applications. Moule will discuss this award- whether a coffee bar conversation follows a session. CNUXIII PASADENA 5

winning green building and will address how it fulfills the Speakers: Charter and sets an agenda for resource conservation within Joyce Perkins, Executive Director, Los Angeles the Transect, consummating the marriage of sustainability Neighborhood Initiative (LANI) and New Urbanism. Ellen Gelbard, District Deputy Director, City of Speaker: Santa Monica Elizabeth Moule, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Ron Posthuma, Program Manager, King County Architects and Urbanists E CROSSROADS AT THE CORNFIELD: P RE-CENTERING COMMUNITIES FROM BROWNFIELD TO PARKLAND AROUND TRANSIT-ORIENTED IN THE HISTORIC HEART OF DEVELOPMENT LOS ANGELES SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION MODERATED SESSION Gold Room Room 211 Coffee Bar to Follow Coffee Bar to Follow Thread: Physical Form Thread: Environment Planning and design for transit-oriented development (TOD) In 1999, the last, vast tract of vacant land in the heart of should be based on a neighborhood- and district-wide plan, downtown Los Angeles, the Chinatown Cornfield—a former embracing the presence of the station itself. Whether for rail yard—became the site of a proposed 40-acre ware- new or existing places, such plans should be varied by loca- house, backed by the Mayor, City Council, and HUD. The tion and intensity based on their Transect condition. These surrounding communities, including some of the most cultur- plans should be implemented through a form-based code, ally diverse yet underserved residents in the city, formed the so that incremental growth over time leverages the value Chinatown Yard Alliance to stop the industrial development of each transit station. and advocate instead for parkland. The panel will examine Speaker: how this brownfield became a state park. Stefanos Polyzoides, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Moderator: Architects and Urbanists Joel Reynolds, Co-Director, Urban Program, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council I BRITISH ARCHITECTURE’S Speakers: ADVOCATE FOR URBANISM James Rojas, Founder, Latino Urban Forum SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Robert Garcia, Executive Director, Room 103/104 Center for Law in the Public Interest Coffee Bar to Follow Lewis MacAdams, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Thread: Implementation Friends of the Los Angeles River As President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, William Delvac, Partner, Lathan and Watkins, LLP George Ferguson has helped shift the discussion from architectural star turns to the importance of context and P REGULATING NEW URBANISM: the urban form. Ferguson is a strong voice against the AN INTRODUCTION TO FORM- isolation of the design professions and for multi-disciplinary BASED CODES design education. He will discuss his desire to remove MODERATED SESSION the barriers between the various professions that share Room 101/102 responsibility for the way cities look and work. Coffee Bar to Follow Speaker: Thread: Physical Form George Ferguson, President, Royal Institute of Form-based codes are emerging as the best tool for the British Architects challenging job of implementing New Urbanist development plans. Learn about the defining features of this promising T BUS TODS: new regulatory approach. Join form-based coding experts COMMUNITY BUILDING WITH BUSES Paul Crawford, Geoff Ferrell, and Dan Parolek as they share MODERATED SESSION key techniques for the preparation of codes. Discussion will Room 212/214 focus on specific steps and processes, including analysis of Coffee Bar to Follow existing conditions, assessment of current codes, and the Thread: Transportation formulation of urban standards. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) with rail has become Moderator: more commonplace with over 100 built US TOD’s. But most Peter Katz, President of the Form Based Codes communities will never see a train. What are the prospects Institute for communities using buses to shape growth? This session Speakers: will look at lessons learned from three communities that Paul Crawford, Principal, Crawford Multari & Clark have gotten on the bus to create places of lasting value. Associates Moderator: Dan Parolek, Principal, Opticos Design Inc. G.B. Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, Geoffrey Ferrell, Principal, Geoffrey Ferrell Associates PB Placemaking 6 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY

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I CONSERVATIVES AND URBANISM Speakers: Ken Johnsen MODERATED SESSION , Principal, Shiels Obletz Johnsen Room 107 Rick Gustafson, Chief Operating Officer, Portland Coffee Bar to Follow Streetcar Thread: Implementation Tom Prendergast, President of Transit and Rail Systems, Is urbanism a partisan or ideological concept? Does New Parsons Brinckerhoff Urbanism thrive amid truly free markets or does it require Jeffrey Boothe, Partner, Holland & Knight, LLP support from strong government policies? Is the reality somewhere in between? A panel of elected officials, E CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE practitioners, and journalists will explore these and other BUILT ENVIRONMENT questions as New Urbanism transitions from concept to TALK SHOW SESSION implementation across the country. Room 106 Moderator: Thread: Environment Scott Polikov, Urbanist and City Engineer, Opening with some analysis of recent climate trends and the Gateway Planning Group implications for communities and the environment, this panel Speakers: will then cover some of the ways that New Urbanism can Mike Krusee, State Representative, Texas House of help reduce heat-trapping pollution. Topics will include green Representatives building, location efficiency and its effect on travel demand, Steven Greenhut, Editorial Writer, Orange County greenspace policy in the L.A. region, and growth patterns and Register travel growth in China. Ken Masugi, Director, The Claremont Institute Moderator: John Norquist, President and CEO, Congress for the Deron Lovaas, Smart Growth Policy Deputy Director New Urbanism and Vehicles Campaign Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Speakers: 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Carolyn Ramsay, Executive Director, Olive Branches Bruce Appleyard, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Portland BREAK State University Auditorium Terrace and Convention Center Jennifer Henry, LEED-ND Program Manager, Lower Level Lobby U.S. Green Building Council P HAGIOGRAPHY VS. HEY, GEOGRAPHY: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NEW URBANISM AND THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE IN LOS ANGELES T HOW STREETCARS CAN PROMOTE TALK SHOW SESSION NEW URBANIST DEVELOPMENT Room 103/104 IN YOUR TOWN Thread: Physical Form TALK SHOW SESSION Los Angeles is the record of aspirations that are frequently Room 101/102 untouched by traditional canons of urbanism. Generations of Thread: Transportation artists and architects have found their spiritual home in the The cutting edge of transit and transit-oriented development iconoclasm of Los Angeles, free from conventional notions of is the re-emergence of streetcars. These local circulators rectitude. This session will explore the relationship between connect to regional networks and are uniquely suited to pro- New Urbanism and Los Angeles’ tendency to treat dogma of mote New Urbanist development because they stop fre- any sort with suspicion and disregard. quently and generate an intensity of development that Moderator: makes for terrific pedestrian neighborhoods. Because these Daniel Solomon, Principal, Solomon E.T.C. WRT systems are small, lightweight, and relatively inexpensive, Speakers: cities can build them without waiting for federal funding. In John Kaliski, Principal, Urban Studio over 70 U.S. cities, developers and elected officials are pur- James Rojas, Founder, Latino Urban Forum suing streetcars as neighborhood amenities and economic John Chase, Urban Designer, City of West Hollywood development tools. Hear development, transportation, and Stephanie Reich, Urban Planner, City of Santa Monica finance experts talk about the innovative partnerships and Planning Department sources of financing that are making streetcars feasible and Jane Blumenfeld, Principal City Planner, Los Angeles hear about prospects for streetcar funding in the federal City Planning Department transportation bill. Lian Hurst Mann, Coordinator of the National School Moderator: for Strategic Planning, The Labor Strategy Center Shelley Poticha, Executive Director, Reconnecting America CNUXIII PASADENA 7

P SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STRATEGIES 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-DENSITY URBAN CORES T TRANSIT IN THE POLYCENTRIC CITY SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION SINGLE SUBJECT SESSION Gold Room Room 103/104 Thread: Physical Form Coffee Bar to Follow High-density redevelopment in urban cores in existing city Thread: Transportation centers presents complex challenges to urban designers, Transit expert Bill Lieberman sketches the historical relation- where the traditional principles of urbanism must contend ship between urban form and public transportation before with the complicated legacy of generations of infrastructure plunging into the complexities of transit today. Special atten- and development and the accommodation of contemporary tion will be given to public transit systems that successfully economic forms. Through three recent projects — the adapt to contemporary urban forms, with an emphasis on Toronto waterfront in Canada, a massive infill project in why people use transit, where to site transit-oriented devel- Seoul, Korea, and the revitalization of Leeds City Center in opments (and where not to site them), and the ways to the UK — the accomplished architect and urban designer accommodate the necessity and desirability of transfers. Fred Koetter will demonstrate how responses to three radi- Speakers: cally different urban situations yield unique design solutions. William Lieberman, Deputy Director for Planning, Informed by specific cultural conditions, these design strate- San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency gies provide economically and environmentally sustainable Joe DiSteffano, Associate, Calthorpe Associates futures for these three cities. Speaker: E LANDSCAPE INSPIRED BY PLACE — Fred Koetter, Principal, Koetter Kim & Associates IN TOWN, NEW TOWN, NO TOWN SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Gold Room PM PM 12:00 – 2:00 Coffee Bar to Follow Thread: Environment CHARTER AWARDS LUNCH Dennis McGlade of the acclaimed Olin Partnership introduces Exhibit Hall three very different visions of landscape designs for three Join our special ceremony honoring the winners of the 2005 very different “towns.” In Milan, the rehabilitation of down- Charter Awards. The program honors projects that fulfill and town fair grounds resulted in a new urban neighborhood. On advance the Charter of the New Urbanism. Members of the Grand Cayman Island, designers created a new town, not awards jury will present the winning projects and invite the only for tourists and émigrés but also for the island’s citizens. winning teams to accept their awards. Luncheon requires In Napa, a derelict trailer park was transformed into a new pre-paid ticket. hotel village, a miniature town for its guests. McGlade discuss- es the common and divergent approaches of these projects. Speaker: PM PM 2:00 – 3:00 Dennis McGlade, Principal, Olin Partnership H THE HISTORY OF I REPLACING WESTERN SYDNEY’S POLYCENTRIC CITIES SPRAWL WITH AUSSIE NEW PLENARY SESSION URBANISM: THE WESTERN SYDNEY Auditorium URBAN LAND RELEASE Thread: History SINGLE SUBJECT SESSION This session will present a history of planned polycentrism. Room 101/102 The idea is long-standing — since industrialization, people Coffee Bar to Follow have tried to channel urban growth into finite, complete units Thread: Implementation as a counter-proposal to urban growth by unplanned spread. The Western Sydney Urban Land Release will deliver a fully The session will focus in particular on the garden city model integrated urban extension for about 500,000 residents. as an approach to planned agglomeration. Ebenezer With $6 billion budgeted and a government agency commit- Howard’s 19th century polycentric vision is a direct precur- ted to carefully integrating all infrastructure and develop- sor to the New Urbanism movement. ment, this will be a rare example of New Urbanism imple- Speaker: mented on a regional scale. Lessons include the integrated Emily Talen, Associate Professor, Urban and Regional government-led approach, the use of workshops to resolve Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign competing interests, innovative governance and financing mechanisms to ensure implementation, and the use of regional structuring design principles and codes. Speakers: Chip Kaufman, Director, Ecologically Sustainable Design Wendy Morris, Director, Ecologically Sustainable Design Evan Jones, National Planning Director, Multiplex 8 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY

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T CORRIDORS: THE URBAN DESIGN Moderator: CHALLENGE Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director & Associate Professor, MODERATED SESSION Georgia Institute of Technology Room 211 Speakers: Coffee Bar to Follow Michael Freedman, Principal, Freedman Tung and Thread: Transportation Bottomley Rarely a destination itself, the urban corridor resists the Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Calthorpe Associates design strategies—such as compaction, shared uses, and localized identity—applied so successfully to neighborhoods I RELIGION AND CIVIC ART and districts. Corridors extend beyond the 5-minute walk, MODERATED SESSION frequently cross multiple jurisdictions and interest groups, Room 212/214 attract automobile-oriented commercial uses, and shoulder Coffee Bar to Follow high volumes of traffic. But corridors are being urbanized. Thread: Implementation This session will explore urban design responses to the For 60 years, sprawl has challenged American urbanism. unique characteristics of the corridor—an essential part of It has affected almost everything, including religion and reli- the skeletal structure of the Polycentric City. gious buildings. As the complexity of the city gives way to Moderator: tract housing, big boxes, and office parks, the corner church Alan Loomis, Urban Designer, Moule & Polyzoides is giving way to the mega church. What would Jesus say? Architects and Urbanists We can’t be sure, but a panel will convene in Pasadena to Speakers: discuss contemporary religion and civic art. Lisa Padilla, Principal, Zimmer Gunsal Frasca Moderator: Partnership John Norquist, President and CEO, Congress for the Gregory Tung, Principal, Freedman Tung & Bottomley New Urbanism Speakers: E CONTENT MEETS CONTEXT: Eric Jacobsen, Reverend, Fuller Theological Seminary GREEN BUILDING GUIDELINES Philip Bess, Professor of Architecture, University of FOR NEW URBANIST CITIES Notre Dame MODERATED SESSION John Massengale, Architect and Urbanist, Traditional Room 106 Architecture and Urbanism Collaborative Coffee Bar to Follow Emily Talen, Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Thread: Environment Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A truly sustainable city requires not only the right planning to create walkable, human-scale cities, but also the right P THE TRANSECT IN THE buildings within that context. Progressive cities are promot- POLYCENTRIC REGION ing green building principles as part of an overall smart SINGLE SUBJECT SESSION growth strategy. This session will present the country’s lead- Auditorium ing municipal green building programs and lessons learned. Coffee Bar to Follow Moderator: Thread: Physical Form Greg Reitz, Green Building Program Advisor, The urban-to-rural Transect can play a critical role in manag- City of Santa Monica ing growth across regions encompassing multiple centers Speakers: and jurisdictions. As an organizing framework, the Transect Rob Bennett, Senior Program Manager, City of Portland can rationalize the diversity of land use, transportation, and Rebecca Flora, Executive Director, Green Building Alliance environmental conditions in polycentric regions. This session Katie Jensen, Austin Energy Green Building Program will present a system of regional sectors for preserving Anthony Floyd, Senior Building Consultant, City of open space, prioritizing infill, and staging new growth areas Scottsdale as well as introduce a method for calibrating and delineating such a transect on regional geography. P RETROFITTING SUBURBS: Speaker: NEXT STEPS Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & MODERATED SESSION Company Room 107 Introduction/Response: Coffee Bar to Follow Ray Gindroz, Principal, Urban Design Associates Thread: Physical Form Speaker: This session begins with an overview of successful subur- Eliot Allen, Principal, Criterion Planners/Engineers Inc ban retrofits—dead malls, dying office parks, strip corridors, and edge cities all redeveloped as neighborhoods and town centers. The panel will then focus on the next steps. What 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM tools and strategies are needed for greyfield sites as opposed to greenfied sites? How do we connect the dots BREAK between individual projects to begin systemically retrofitting Auditorium Terrace and Convention Center sprawl itself? Lower Level Lobby CNUXIII PASADENA 9

(NRDC), and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)— PM PM 4:45 – 6:00 will explain their current proposals and invite comparisons, discussion, and suggestions. Both systems attempt to incor- I BEYOND SUBSIDIES: porate elements of urbanism, green building techniques, and THE FUTURE OF LOW-INCOME smart growth principles. Do they remain faithful to the princi- HOUSING ples of New Urbanism and create national standards for TALK SHOW SESSION neighborhood design? Gold Room Moderator: Thread: Implementation Susan Mudd, Environmental Attorney, CNU Board The last five years have seen a drastic shift in the federal Member government’s role in housing policy. Yet unlike with welfare Speakers: reform of the 1990s, there has been little debate or engage- Laurence Aurbach, Editor and Graphic Designer, ment across ideological lines. In March 2005, CNU hosted a The Town Paper housing policy summit attended by some of the most inno- Douglas Farr, Founding Principal, Farr Associates vative thinkers in housing policy to begin the engagement. Jessica Cogan Millman, Maryland Director, Join the next great CNU debate. Coalition for Smarter Growth Moderator: John Norquist , President and CEO, Congress for I RETHINKING SMART GROWTH: the New Urbanism LOS ANGELES AT THE Speakers: CUTTING EDGE Ray Gindroz, Principal, Urban Design Associates TALK SHOW SESSION Howard Husock, Director, Case Programs , John F. Room 101/102 Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Thread: Implementation Daniel Solomon, Principal, Solomon E.T.C. WRT This panel will discuss the importance of regional diversity in Los Angeles and consider how race, class, and ethnicity T REVIVING BOULEVARDS AND result in important and, at times, cutting edge illustrations of AVENUES AS MAJOR urban transformation. Additionally, the panel will identify criti- THOROUGHFARES cal urban needs that are not being met. TALK SHOW SESSION Moderator: Room 106 Robert Gottlieb, Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Thread: Transportation Institute, As far back as CNU V in 1997, Transportation Task Force Speakers: members have had their eyes on the daunting goal of James Rojas, Founder, Latino Urban Forum reforming engineering standards for major thoroughfares. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Department Chair, Their efforts started bearing fruit in 2003 when CNU Department of Urban Planning, University of Southern entered into partnership with the Institute of Transportation California Engineers. This session will provide a project overview fol- lowed by a lively exchange about the challenges of introduc- ing urbanism to the engineering world and to the federal 6:00 PM 8:00 PM standards that guide engineers. – Moderator: DINE AROUNDS Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk Enjoy the local flavor of Pasadena with fellow CNU mem- & Company bers. Local volunteers will lead a group of up to 15 people Speakers: to a restaurant. Each group will meet at a prearranged spot Ellen Greenberg, Principal, Freedman Tung & Bottomley and walk or take transit to the restaurant. Entrées will gener- Rick Hall, President, Hall Planning & Engineering ally be $10-$35. This price does not include alcoholic drinks, Jim Daisa, Senior Project Manager, Kimley-Horn and gratuity, or tax. Diners need to be willing to split the bill Associates, Inc. evenly. The dress code for all restaurants is casual. Sign Brian Bochner, Senior Research Engineer, Texas up for a Dine Around at the bulletin board near the registra- Transportation Institute tion table. Peter Swift, Principal, Swift and Associates

E CERTIFYING NEIGHBORHOODS: PM PM LEED-ND AND TND RATINGS 8:00 – 10:00 TALK SHOW SESSION PIN UPS AND EXHIBITS Room 103/104 Convention Center Lobby Thread: Environment Pin Ups and Exhibits allow participants to review CNU mem- The neighborhood scale is key to good urbanism. This ses- ber work posted in the lower lobby of the convention center. sion will focus on two newly proposed systems to rate Pin-Ups allow practitioners to share expertise and partici- neighborhoods. The author of the Traditional Neighborhood pate in the kind of dialogue that keeps New Urbanism vital. Development (TND) rating system and selected members of Pin Up space is first come, first served. Check the bulletin the LEED for Neighborhoods (LEED-ND) partnership— board near the registration table for detailed information. including CNU, the National Resources Defense Council 10 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY SATURDAY JUNE 11 SATURDAY and infill sites. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to meet the requirements and a broad array of tools for creating more vivid, more compelling places through sustain- 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM able site design. Speaker: CONGRESS REGISTRATION Tom Richman, Principal, Catalyst Civic Auditorium Lobby P NEW AND EVERYDAY URBANISM IN DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM TALK SHOW SESSION Gold Room CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Coffee Bar to Follow Auditorium Terrace and Convention Center Thread: Physical Form Lower Level Lobby San Diego has undergone a transformation of its downtown beginning with City Architect Michael Stepner’s creation of ASSEMBLY the Gaslamp District in the mid-1980s. Architect/developer Auditorium Terrace Ted Smith (Smith and Others) and architects Eric Naslund (Studio E) and Tom Anglewicz (M.W. Steele Group, Inc.) have been creating multifamily housing and mixed-use infill 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM projects through innovative building typologies, urban char- acteristics, and strong design sensibilities that are shaping T THE ART OF PLACE AND THE San Diego into a model for the 24-hour City of Tomorrow. SCIENCE OF SPACE Moderator: SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Michael Stepner, President, Stepner Design Group Auditorium Speakers: Coffee Bar to Follow Ted Smith, President, Ted Smith and Others Thread: Transportation Tom Anglewicz, Vice President, M.W. Steele Group, Inc. Can we design places according to how ordinary people use Eric Naslund, Principal, Studio E Architects them? Architectural and urban theorist Bill Hillier leads us through space syntax, a tool that can be used to forecast I METROPOLITAN ECONOMICS, how people will move through urban environments and show SUSTAINABLE GLOBALISM, AND how good places emerge from the balanced meeting of THE QUALITY OF URBAN LIFE local and broader urban patterns. Space syntax can help SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION design street networks that work with the natural move- Room 106 ments of their users, and so help put things in the right Coffee Bar to Follow place. Planners, architects and developers have used Thread: Implementation space syntax to enhance the navigability and walkability The most important engines of global prosperity in the twen- of designed spaces. With applications ranging from public ty-first century are cities and urban regions, in which all space and transit design to crime deterrence, space syntax public and private stakeholders must collaborate to develop deserves your attention. and implement strategies for increasing productivity and Speaker: innovation. Marc Weiss argues that quality of life leads to a Bill Hillier, Professor of Architecture and Urban healthy economy. Sustainable environments, social equity, Morphology, University of London physical and cultural heritage, New Urbanist community and regional planning and design, and other key factors are now E WHERE THE WATER MEETS THE fundamental building blocks enabling metropolitan economic ROAD: THEORY AND PRACTICE strategies to succeed worldwide. FOR SUSTAINABLE SITE DESIGN Speaker: SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Marc Weiss, Chairman and CEO, Prague Institute for Room 103/104/105 Global Urban Development Coffee Bar to Follow Thread: Environment T SMART ABOUT CARS Federal regulations now obligate almost every new develop- MODERATED SESSION ment and redevelopment project to meet storm water quality Room 101/102 and stream protection requirements. Yet many storm water Coffee Bar to Follow strategies are anti-urban, especially at higher densities. This Thread: Transportation session provides an overview of the regulatory context, This session will offer insights into creative new solutions to explains the basic theory of storm water management, and reduce the footprint of automobile dependency. As conges- offers a simple three-step process for arriving at optimal tion continues to plague urban areas, the cost of owning, design solutions. Examples from leading practitioners will operating, and parking a car continues to rise. Convenient illustrate solutions for greenfields, greyfields, brownfields, new personal transportation systems are gaining momentum around the . Learn about the latest in car CNUXIII PASADENA 11

sharing and other new mobility offerings and step outside I EUROPEAN REGIONALISM to explore the lightweight community electric vehicles after MODERATED SESSION the session. It is possible to be smart about cars. Room 107 Moderator: Coffee Bar to Follow Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President for Policy, Thread: Implementation Transportation, and Community Development, A core aspect of new urban practice has always been at the Center for Neighborhood Technology regional and metropolitan scale—whether regional visioning Speakers: in Chicago, Austin, and the Twin Cities or structuring growth Dan Sturges, Senior Program Manager, WestStart- around transit in Charlotte, Denver, and Los Angeles. This CALSTART session presents recent innovations in regionalism in William del Valle, General Manager, Flexcar Europe, including an overview of work on the continent, a Sharon Feigon, CEO, I-Go Car Sharing review of regional spatial planning in the United Kingdom, and a transect-based regional plan from Sweden. E TRANSCENDING STYLE: Moderator: LANDSCAPE INSPIRATION Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince’s Foundation MODERATED SESSION for the Built Environment Room 211 Speakers: Coffee Bar to Follow Peter Hetherington, Regional Affairs Editor, Thread: Environment The Guardian Landscape design provides an opportunity to integrate site Torbjorn Einarsson, Principal, ARKEN Arkitekter specific issues and environmental opportunities more fully Susan Parham, Chair, Council for European Urbanism into the work of New Urbanists. Environmentally sensitive design philosophy and methods—and projects reflecting this approach—will be presented to illustrate form and land- 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM scapes derived from regional influences. Moderator: BREAK Susan Van Atta, President, Van Atta Associates, Inc. Auditorium Terrace and Convention Center Speakers: Lower Level Lobby Marc Fisher, Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Design and Facilities, University of California, Santa Barbara 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Steve Hammond, Principal, Solomon E.T.C. WRT T RAZING FREEWAYS, P HOUSING TYPOLOGIES AND RAISING VALUES THE REURBANIZATION OF THE TALK SHOW SESSION POLYCENTRIC CITY Gold Room MODERATED SESSION Thread: Transportation Room 212/214 Cities across North America are removing freeways to ignite Coffee Bar to Follow reinvestment. Recognizing the destruction of neighborhoods Thread: Physical Form and land values caused by urban freeways, communities are How can creative design and use of housing typologies give choosing alternatives that restore torn fabric through rich structure and coherence to the Polycentric City? What are street networks and create value through good design. new and innovative typologies that reinforce the urban struc- Going beyond reactive solutions to traffic, communities are ture at all scales, from that of the city to the neighborhood developing proactive approaches to place-making. This ses- and corridor to the block and street? sion will focus on balancing transportation with land use and Moderator: designing infrastructure to leverage opportunities for urban John Dutton, Partner, Nicholas Budd Dutton Architects development. The talk-show format will provide a lively Speakers: examination of the dynamics of real estate development Eric Olsen, Thomas P. Cox Architects before, during, and after urban freeways are replaced with Kevin Wilcock, Principal, David Baker and Partners beautiful streets, blocks, and squares. Stefanos Polyzoides, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Moderator: Architects and Urbanists Peter Park, Development Manager, Community Planning and Development, Denver Speaker: Elizabeth Macdonald, Professor, University of California, Berkeley John Ellis, Principal, Solomon E.T.C. WRT 12 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY

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E GREEN GABLES, FABLES, and continued life—differently than most preservationists. AND LABELS This session will discuss traditional design as a living tradition TALK SHOW SESSION and consider the implications of that for contemporary archi- Room 106 tecture, urbanism, and preservation. Thread: Environment Moderator: This panel will describe, discuss, and debate green, environ- John Massengale, Architect and Urbanist, Traditional mentally sensitive, energy conscious, and ecologically sound Architecture and Urbanism Collaborative design and planning from the scale of the building to the Speaker: metropolitan region. Mark Mack and Larry Scarpa, archi- Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk tects from the Los Angeles area, will present a project, & Company followed by an open discussion and question and answer period led by Doug Kelbaugh, Dean of the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Planning. Moderator: SALONS Doug Kelbaugh, Dean of the Taubman College of Auditorium Terrace Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Salons are informal gatherings for CNU members to discuss Speakers: their work. Check the bulletin board near the registration table Lawrence Scarpa, President, Pugh & Scarpa for the list of topics. Box lunches available for purchase. Mark Mack, Principal, Mack Architects Elizabeth Moule, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides CHARTER AWARDS SALON Architects and Urbanists Gold Room Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Calthorpe Associates Join jurors for a behind-the-scenes look at the selection process, the merits of winning projects, and advice on submit- I THE CHALLENGES AND ting work for consideration. OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW URBANISM IN LOW-GROWTH TASK FORCE LUNCHES COMMUNITIES Task forces are where some of CNU’s most groundbreaking TALK SHOW SESSION projects began. Bring a lunch, choose your task force, and Room 103/104 get updates on the latest CNU initiatives from task force Thread: Implementation co-chairs. Box lunches available for purchase. Dead mall rescue, infill housing in struggling neighborhoods, DESIGN TASK FORCE Room 106 and risk averse lending institutions can be problematic when developing under the best circumstances. These challenges EDUCATION TASK FORCE Room 103/104 can be especially daunting for the New Urbanist in cities and ENVIRONMENT TASK FORCE Room 107 regions with low-growth economies. A panel will explore these challenges and introduce successful strategies and PLANNERS TASK FORCE Room 211 positive trends that New Urbanists can exploit to “make place TRANSPORTATION TASK FORCE Room 101/102 for people” in communities that are sometimes left behind. Moderator: Kara Wilbur, President, CNU New England PM PM Speakers: 1:30 – 2:30 Mark Nickita, Archive Design Studio H Howard Katz, Senior Fellow, American Architectural LEARNING FROM LOS ANGELES: Foundation CITY OR ANTI-CITY, TYPE OR Tim Wanamaker, Office of Strategic Planning, PROTOTYPE? PLENARY SESSION City of Buffalo Auditorium Mark Hinshaw, Director of Urban Design, Thread: History LMN Architects I People tend to equate Los Angeles with sprawl, smog, and TRADITION AND PRESERVATION urban violence. Often the city and region are cast as the great “what not to do” of twentieth-century urbanism. These TALK SHOW SESSION accounts obscure a rich legacy of city-building and a history Room 101/102 of innovations in urban planning. Planning has been ubiqui- Thread: Implementation tous in Southern California; ubiquity has not always meant Modern historic preservation is a product of modernism and policy implemented toward ideal ends. Join Greg Hise as he looks on traditional buildings as relics of the past. It often considers Los Angeles’ legacy and history in light of current prohibits both contemporary traditional design and contextu- paradigms such as the New Urbanism. al building. Yet, in the 21st century, traditional architecture Speaker: and urbanism is thriving. Traditional designers approach tra- Greg Hise, Associate Professor, University of Southern ditional buildings and neighborhoods—and their preservation California CNUXIII PASADENA 13

Vision helped foster a common vision, the role the region’s 2:45 PM 3:45 PM – centers will play in Southern California’s future, and how the T SHARED SPACE-RECONCILING vision is being implemented. Join the award winning plan- PEOPLE, PLACES AND TRAFFIC ners who designed the Envision Utah process as they dis- cuss their work in the Los Angeles region. SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Speakers: Auditorium John Fregonese, Principal, Fregonese Calthorpe Coffee Bar to Follow Associates Thread: Transportation Peter Calthorpe, Principal, Calthorpe Associates For several generations, the spaces between buildings have been dominated by the requirements of traffic engineering, T PARKING ALONG THE TRANSECT with its language of signs, traffic signals, bollards, barriers, MODERATED SESSION curbs, and road markings. As a result there has been little Room 211 opportunity to express community values, history, or a Coffee Bar to Follow sense of place through the configuration of streets and the Thread: Transportation spaces between buildings. In many mainland European coun- Parking is the poor sibling of architecture. If the parking sys- tries this is beginning to change. The assumption that high- tem works well, nobody notices. If it doesn’t, it can under- way engineering and urban design are irreconcilable has mine a city’s best efforts to improve urban design and to been challenged by new approaches to safety and traffic manage traffic. This session will explore the myths and facts management. Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a specialist in urban about parking, describing how it can be gracefully accommo- design and movement, describes some of these changes dated at every point along the transect. Panelists will exam- and sets them in their broader historical context. Examples, ine appropriate parking requirements, tools for minimizing drawn from work in Denmark, Germany, Sweden and The the negative traffic and urban design implications of parking, Netherlands, outline a radical approach to the design and and offer specific solutions. management of the public realm. Moderator: Speaker: Jeff Tumlin, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Traffic Engineer, Hamilton-Baillie Associates Associates Ltd. Speakers: E ENERGY AND SUBURBANIZATION Patrick Kennedy, Principal, Panoramic Interests Neal Payton, Associate, Torti Gallas and Partners SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Room 106 E SLOW FOOD AND THE FAST LIFE Coffee Bar to Follow SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Thread: Environment Room 103/104 This presentation will cover recent trends in suburbanization Coffee Bar to Follow and travel demand in the United States and their contribu- Thread: Environment tions to energy use. The focus will be on America’s growing The Slow Food Movement believes that respecting the con- dependence on oil and the implications for national security vivial traditions of the table, and celebrating the diversity of and the environment. The session will conclude with a dis- the earth’s bounty can help prevent succumbing to the cussion of policy and planning solutions to oil dependence effects of the fast life, which manifests itself through indus- and the role of planners and designers. trialization, standardization of the food supply, and degrada- Speaker: tion of farmland. Join renowned chef Evan Kleiman as she Deron Lovaas, Smart Growth Policy Deputy Director discusses her work with Slow Food eco-gastronomy in an and Vehicles Campaign Director, Natural Resources urban setting. Chef Kleiman is the author of many best- Defense Council selling cook books, such as Pasta Fresca and Cucina Rustica, P GROWTH VISION AND and hosts the weekly radio food show “Good Food.” IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES Introducer: FOR POLYCENTRIC SOUTHERN Lisa LaCorte-Kring, Co-chair Wine Committee, CALIFORNIA Slow Food USA Speaker: SINGLE SUBJECT SESSION Evan Kleiman, Executive Chef, Angeli Caffe Room 101/102 Coffee Bar to Follow P THE GREAT URBAN Thread: Physical Form RETAIL CHALLENGE With over 18 million residents and many major urban cen- MODERATED SESSION ters, Southern California is the quintessential polycentric Gold Room region. The Southern California Association of Government Coffee Bar to Follow has worked closely with residents and local governments to Thread: Physical Form craft Compass Growth Vision, a plan to maintain the The struggles of retail venues in early New Urbanist towns region’s livability and to accommodate the 6 million addition- taught the lesson that the traffic from individual traditional al residents expected by 2030. Learn how Compass Growth neighborhood development is not enough to support a retail center. Recent town centers have achieved success by 14 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY

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accommodating the needs of big-box retailers with regional PM PM customer bases. Some like Belmar and Mashpee Commons 3:45 – 4:00 have won praise for creating valuable urban environments. BREAK But are there tradeoffs that come with large-format retail- Auditorium Terrace and Convention Center ers? How much do their infrastructure needs distort tradi- Lower Level Lobby tional neighborhood developments, especially those in lower intensity T-3 settings? This session will bring fresh thoughts to a perennial challenge, exploring these questions along- PM PM side potential new models for viable town centers. 4:00 – 5:00 Moderator: T PUTTING OUT THE FIRES ON Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & STREET DESIGN Company TALK SHOW SESSION Speakers: Room 103/104 Seth Harry, President, Seth Harry & Associates Inc. Thread: Transportation Ken Potts, Senior Development Manager, Smart To a New Urbanist, narrowing streets and creating pedestri- Growth Initiatives, Target Corporation an friendly environments can help calm auto traffic, save Karl Ehrlich, President, Retail Leasing Solutions lives, and reduce injuries. To an emergency responder narrow Arnold B. Chace, Jr.,President, Cornish Associates, LP streets and other traffic calming devices may slow response I ETHNICITY, ECONOMY, AND times and impede operations. This session continues a great URBAN FORM tradition of inviting critics of the New Urbanist approach to share their arguments and explore solutions. Join experts MODERATED SESSION from both sides of the issue as they discuss whether new Room 212/214 urbanist streets compromise citizens’ well-being. Coffee Bar to Follow Moderator: Thread: Implementation Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government This panel will examine how different ethnic groups create Commission economic vitality in their communities through commerce Speakers: and how these activities impact public space. Immigrants Thom Glonchak, Assistant Fire Chief, Los Angeles use their social capital and other cultural resources to sell County Fire Department things to each other in their neighborhoods and outside of Daniel Slone, Partner, McGuire Woods LLP them. From street vendors to small local businesses, these Mark Nelson, Battalion Fire Chief , Los Angeles forces shape the urban form. This panel will examine how County Fire Department different ethnic groups create economic vitality in their com- Peter Swift, Principal, Swift and Associates munities through commerce and how these activities impact public space. E DESIGNING HEALTHY CITIES Moderator: TALK SHOW SESSION Diego Cardoso, Director, Central Area Team, Los Room 101/102 Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Thread: Environment Speakers: The location and environmental design of urban neighbor- James Rojas, Founder, Latino Urban Forum hoods has implications for health and well-being. This ses- Jack Wong, President, JWA Urban Consultants, Inc. sion brings together top academic scholars and prominent Mary M. Lee, Attorney and Community Activist, activists to discuss the links between community design, Peter Elmlund, Project Leader for Urban City Research physical activity, pollution exposure, and diet—and what Ax:son Johnson Foundation these links mean for public health. I WILLIAM FULTON: REGIONAL Moderator: Jennifer Wolch FRAMEWORK AND GOVERNANCE , Professor, University of Southern California SINGLE SPEAKER SESSION Speaker: Room 107 Jim Sallis, Professor of Psychology, San Diego State Coffee Bar to Follow University Thread: Implementation David Sloane, Associate Professor, University of William Fulton has played a key role in reshaping the way Southern California urban and metropolitan growth issues are debated in the Angela Johnson Meszaros, Director of Policy and post-suburban era. Fulton is president of Solimar Research General Counsel, California Environmental Rights Group, a California-based public policy research firm. Alliance He is also economic development columnist for Governing magazine and founding editor of California Planning & P Development Report. He will discuss framing the debate UNDERSTANDING COLLEGE TOWNS around regional governance in Southern California. TALK SHOW SESSION Room 106 Speaker: Thread: Physical Form William Fulton, President, Solimar Research Group To meet the needs of students and faculty, small commercial districts frequently evolve adjacent to colleges and universities. CNUXIII PASADENA 15 SUNDAY

Complementing the academic community and developing lives JUNE 12 SUNDAY of their own, these retail districts mature into endearing places that help define a student’s college experience. However, cre- 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM ating an urban district that is sensitive to town-gown relations and serves both populations equally well is a special challenge CONGRESS REGISTRATION for planners and designers. Focusing on what makes these Civic Auditorium Lobby districts vital and how they relate to and support their adjacent institutions and neighborhoods, this session will offer solutions to these inherent challenges. AM AM Speaker: 9:00 – 10:00 Dhiru Thadani, Principal, Ayers/Saint/Gross CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST I ATLANTA AND LOS ANGELES: Auditorium Terrace & Convention Center POLYCENTRISM COMPARED Lower Level Lobby TALK SHOW SESSION Room 107 ASSEMBLY Auditorium Terrace Thread: Implementation Atlanta and Los Angeles are two of America’s poster chil- dren for runaway sprawl. In both cities, choking traffic con- AM PM gestion and new transit have catalyzed pockets of real 10:00 – 12:00 urbanism in both fairly dense inner suburbs and former satel- ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT lite cities. Today’s challenge is to channel and sustain growth NEXT YEAR’S CONGRESS to create centers and corridors within a healthy, polycentric Auditorium framework. Participants will focus on strategic programs like Atlanta’s Livable Centers Initiative grants. Join the hosts of the 2006 Congress as they reveal exciting Moderator: details of next year’s big event in Providence, Rhode Island. William Fulton, President, Solimar Reasearch Group . Speakers: CLOSING PLENARY SESSION Mike Dobbins, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Auditorium Hattie Dorsey, President and CEO, Atlanta Neighborhood Join renowned urbanists Jan Gehl and James Kunstler for a Development Partnership, Inc. two part plenary session that explores how cities can meet challenges posed by today’s public spaces and tomorrow’s 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM resource constraints. Harald Kegler of the Council for European Urbanism will deliver special closing remarks. CIVIC ART AWARDS CEREMONY Auditorium URBANISM’S HUMAN DIMENSION: This ceremony will acknowledge the important contributions of LOOKING AFTER THE LIFE OF individuals and organizations to urbanism throughout Southern PUBLIC SPACES California. Their exemplary work illustrates the impact of the Contemporary public spaces are a fragile species. People Charter of the New Urbanism when clearly understood and today use public space not because they have to, but applied. Award winners are distinguished leaders who demon- because they want to. The optional character of much public state excellence in community investment and dynamic city life in today’s cities places very high demands on the quality planning. Please join CNU in acknowledging the important of public spaces offered. Renowned Danish architect Jan work of: The Honorable Phil Angelides, California State Gehl has developed a method for creating irresistible public Treasurer; The Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor Elect of spaces. Gehl’s work builds on systematic recording of how Los Angeles; Rick Cole, City Manager of Ventura; and the people use the city — a process that makes people in the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). city visible. In this plenary session, Gehl will reveal precisely how quality improvements in a range of downtowns — from Copenhagen and Oslo to downtown Melbourne —have led 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM to impressive increases in the use of public spaces. Gehl maintains that when quality spaces are provided, people PARTY AT UNION STATION come. Methods for achieving lively, attractive and safe Feel the pulse of New Urban Los Angeles at the restored urbanistic projects will be the underlying theme. Union Station, the emerging hub of LA's urban rebirth. Take Speaker: in the city lights as you step off your Gold Line rail car from Jan Gehl, Principal, Gehl Architects Pasadena. Then make your way to our special indoor-out- door oasis for wining, dining, and grooving the night away — THE LONG EMERGENCY AND California style. Don't miss this train! Ticket required. NEW URBANSIM With a world decline in oil extraction on the horizon, urbanist James Howard Kunstler predicts a coming period of eco- 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM nomic turbulence, energy shortages, and geopolitical turmoil that he terms “The Long Emergency.” Kunstler argues that LA GALA 16 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY

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these crises will strongly impact the fields of building and design. The far-ranging effects include the contraction of industrial economies, the collapse of oil- and gas-fed indus- trial agriculture, the restoration of rural and urban distinc- tions, and the revision of land development practices. Mega-cities, mega-structures, and mega-financing of mega- developments will be things of the past. In this plenary address, Kunstler considers what New Urbanism can bring to such a radically transformed scene. Speakers: James Kunstler, Author, The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency

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T Bus TODs >>>>>>>> COFFEE BAR Room 212/214

E From Brownfield to >>>>>>>> COFFEE BAR Parkland in LA Room 211

P Form-Based Codes >>>>>>>> COFFEE BAR Room 101/102

I Conservatives and Urbanism >>>>>>>> COFFEE BAR Room 107

T Streetcars Promote NU Room 101/102

E Climate Change Room 106

P Hagiography Room 103/104

P Designs for Urban Cores Gold Room CNUXIII PASADENA 19

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Congress Registration Civic Auditorium Lobby

Opening Opening Session Recpt. Terrace Auditorium

New Urbanism 202: Public/Private Partnerships Room 101/102

New Urbanism 202: Environmental Primer Room 107

New Urbanism 202: Stretching Codes Room 211

Quick Overview of LEED-ND

Dine Arounds Pin Ups and Exhibits Lower Lobby

History of Transit in the Polycentric City >>>>> COFFEE BAR Polycntrc Cities T Auditorium Room 103/104

E Landscape Inspired By Place >>>>> COFFEE BAR Gold Room

I Aussie New Urbanism >>>>> COFFEE BAR Room 101/102

T Corridors: The Urban Design >>>>> COFFEE BAR Challenge Room 211

E Content Meets Context >>>>> COFFEE BAR Room 106

P Retrofitting Suburbs >>>>> COFFEE BAR Room 107

I Religion and Civic Art >>>>> COFFEE BAR Room 212/214

P Transect in the Polycentric >>>>> COFFEE BAR Region Auditorium

I Beyond Subsidies: Gold Room

T Reviving Blvds and Aves Room 106

E LEED-ND and TND Room 103/104

I Rethinking Smart Growth Room 101/102 20 THE POLYCENTRIC CITY AT A GLANCE

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SAT Congress Registration JUNE Civic Auditorium Lobby 11 Continental Brkfst Art of Place/Science of Space >>>>> COFFEE BAR Salons Learning fr T H Terrace Auditorium Auditorium Terrace Auditorium

Sustainable Site Design >>>>> COFFEE BAR Charter Awards Salon E Room 103/104 Gold Room

Urbanism in San Diego >>>>> COFFEE BAR Design Task Force Lunch P Gold Room Room 106

Metropolitan Economics >>>>> COFFEE BAR Education TF Lunch I Room 106 Room 103/104

Smart About Cars >>>>> COFFEE BAR Environment TF Lunch T Room 101/102 Room 107

Transcending Style: Landscape >>>>> COFFEE BAR Planners TF Lunch E Room 211 Room 211

Housing Typologies >>>>> COFFEE BAR Transportation TF Lunch P Room 212/214 Room 101/102

European Regionalism >>>>> COFFEE BAR I Room 107

Razing Freeways T Gold Room

Green Gables, Fables, Labels E Room 106

Low-Growth Communities I Room 103/104

Tradition and Preservation I Room 101/102

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JUNE Congress Registration Guided Tours 11 Civic Auditorium Lobby

Continental Brkfst Closing Plenary Session Open Mike Terrace Auditorium Auditorium CNUXIII PASADENA 21

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Civic Art Awards Party at Union Station Auditorium 8:00 pm – 12:00 am

LA T Shared Space >>> COFFEE BAR Auditorium

E Energy/Suburbanization >>> COFFEE BAR Room 106

P Growth Vision ... >>> COFFEE BAR Room 101/102

T Parking Along the >>> COFFEE BAR Transect Room 211

E Slow Food/Fast Life >>> COFFEE BAR Room 103/104

P Urban Retail Challenge >>> COFFEE BAR Gold Room

I Ethnicity, Economy... >>> COFFEE BAR Room 212/214

I William Fulton: Regional >>> COFFEE BAR Framework Room 107

T Street Design Room 103/104

E Healthy Cities Room 101/102

P College Towns Room 106

I Atlanta & LA Room 107

s Congress for the New THE SPIRIT OF Urbanism NEW URBANISM

The Marquette Building COMMITMENT 140 S. Dearborn Street Suite 310 TO COMMUNITY Chicago, Illinois 60603 tel (312) 551-7300 fax (312) 346-3323 www.cnu.org CNUXIV JUNE 1–4 2006 PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND

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