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NEW URBANISM: Rx FOR HEALTHY PLACES Organized with assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention May 19-22, 2010: CNU 18 The Congress for the New Urbanism appreciates the leadership SUNDAY, MAY 16, - and outreach of the following allies for CNU 18: WEDNESDAY CNU 18 LOCAL HOST Todd Greene Phyllis Bleiweis Iris Hudson, CDC BOARD EMERITUS Atlanta Committee TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2010 COMMITTEE Ashlee Halbritter, CDC Ben Brown Gregg Hudspeth for Progress Sheffield Hale Lori Thomas Bryant Drew Kane Peter Calthorpe Atlanta Development MAY 19 CNU 18 HONORARY CHAIR Bill Halter Rebekah Calvert Theresa Kanter, CDC Robert Davis Authority Dr. Howard Frumkin, CDC George Heery Chris Carrigan Katharine Kelley Andres Duany Atlanta Downtown CNU 18 EXECUTIVE Neal Heery Rodney Cook Pamela Lake Elizabeth Moule Improvement District & CHAIRS: Jeremy Hess Steve Cover Christopher Leersen Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Central Atlanta Progress GUIDED TOURS 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Ellen Dunham-Jones Jim Higdin Wendy Darling David Lintott Stefanos Polyzoides Atlanta Regional Health CONGRESS REGISTRATION / Main Lobby Charles Green, CDC Ciannat Howett Peter Drey Katie Madson Dan Solomon Forum 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM Laura Heery Prozes Walt Huntley Rick Duke Joel Mann BeltLine TOUR 1. 30 Years of New Urbanism in 2 Days: Fun Bus Tour & Critique of Tom Weyandt Jim Jacoby Robert Fowler David McQueen, CDC CNU STAFF CID Leading Projects CNU 18 CO-CHAIRS: Greg Jones David Green Randi Miller Cancer Schmancer Kevin P. Clark Katharine Kelley Will Herbig Bruce Morton John O. Norquist, C.E.U - Council for GUIDED TOURS Liza Mueller Sarah Heaton Kennedy, Herman Howard Keith Morton President and CEO European Urbanism All depart from and return to Atlanta Hilton Lobby. CDC Chris Kochtitzky, CDC Leah Palumbo Nora June Beck, Center for Neighborhood PRE-CONGRESS Sarah Kennedy Jay Kallos Jessi Pierce Project Manager Technology Require registration and a separate fee. ADVISORS & EXPERTS Ross King Geoff Koski Eric Pinckney Abigail Bouzan- Center for Quality Growth Kathryn Lawler Tony Leung Rachel Pomerance Kaloustian, and Regional THURSDAY, MAY 20 – 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Special Thanks to Brian Leary Jonathan Lerner Joel Putterman Administration and Development - Georgia TOUR 4. Roswell: The Town that was not Burned, plus Vickery Village Jennifer Ball Karen Leon de Nie Dee Merriam, CDC Caleb Racicot Finance Director Institute of Technology TOUR 5. Atlanta’s Beltline: America’s Largest Public Works Project / Brooke Jackson Edmond Jared Lombard Paul Moore Montrece Ransom, CDC Stephen Filmanowicz, Chattahoochee Hill SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010 Sponsored by The Beltline Partnership Hon. Shirley Franklin Tim Lowe Paul Muldawer Jamie Rayman Communications Director Country Alliance Hon. Ceasar C. Mitchell Gordon Kenna Nathan Norris Erin Rosintoski Juantiki Jones, Council for Quality Growth 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM Al Outland Steve Macauley Robert Reed Lucy Rowland Membership Assistant DeKalb County Board of TOUR 7. Covington and Clark’s Grove: A Small Town that Gets It Andrea Pinabell Afzaal Malick Dan Reuter Candace Rutt, CDC Mindy Martinez, Commissioners Dan Reuter David Marvin Jeremy Sommer Jay Scott Executive Assistant Georgia Cities Foundation AJ Robinson Ed McBrayer Bill de St Aubin Thom Shepard Sandrine Milanello, Georgia Municipal OPEN SOURCE CONGRESS 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM Trudy Strawn John McColl Bill Tunnell Katie Sobush, CDC Events Director Association The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is driven by small groups of TOUR 6. Gwinnett: Atlanta’s Hub for the New Urban Hi-Life and Susan Mendheim Ed Van Herik Rob Sollie Jeannette Mihalek, Georgians for enthusiastic people working together to tackle today’s challenges facing our W

Dr. Louis Sullivan Steve Nygren Randy Vinson Christian Sottile Development Director Passenger Rail built and natural environment. The Open Source Congress feeds that energy 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDNE Hon. Kasim Reed Michael Ogden Ross Wallace Lane Tharp Heather Smith, Gwinnett Place CID by providing a framework for freestyle, user-driven “mini-sessions” to form TOUR 3. Athens Tom Walsh Hon. Mike Bodker Egbert Perry Kate Thomas, CDC Planning Director Gwinnett Village CID in the midst of the larger Congress. Hon. Bill Floyd Alicia Phillips Bill Thompson, CDC Institute of Traffic 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM S DAY Judy Adler Marci Reed CNU 18 LOCAL Bruce Tolbert CNU CORPORATE Engineers How does the Open Source Congress work? TOUR 9. Creating a Healthy Community: Lessons in Active Living from the Tony Aeck George Rohrig HOST COMMITTEE Heather Van Sickle MEMBERS Livable Communities City of Decatur, GA John Ahman Michael Russell MEMBERS David VanGroningen Coalition: Have a topic that needs discussion? Pick a time, post it to the Open Source David Allman Susan Rutherford Angela Wagner, CDC Core Member: MARTA schedule board, interested people will show up at your meeting, collaborate Peter Aman Candace Rutt, CDC Ozgur Basak Alkan Latoria Whitehead, CDC HDR, Inc Midtown Alliance with you, take notes and create CNU’s next big innovation. Volunteer 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Townsend Bailey Chris Schoen Scott Ball Mary Helen Witten, CDC Key Member: Mothers and Others for facilitators help participants create and manage their own working sessions TOUR 8. New Developments in Historic Towns Established in The 1800’s: Barry Berlin Laura Seydel Enrique Bascunana Liz York, CDC Dover, Kohl & Partners Clean Air around questions they feel are of strategic importance. Just curious? Marietta and Woodstock (2008 Charter Award) Scott Bernstein Wilma Sothern Dawn Becker Margo Younger, CDC Duany Plater-Zyberk National Complete Streets Simply join a session that’s of interest to you, and let the collaboration begin. Sally Bethea Ron Stang Tucker Berta & Company Coalition Chirayu Bhatt CNU BOARD Robert Blake, CDC Mike Starr Urbanist Member: Park Pride What’s in it for me? ALLIED EVENTS The Honorable Dave Stockert Robert Blake, CDC Urban Design Associates PATH Foundation Do you have a new idea worth discussing? Are you looking for help with a Mike Bodker Brian Stone Tegan Boehmer, CDC Zach Borders Organization Member: PEDS current project? Are you doing something innovative? Ask a volunteer to point 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Jim Borders Trudy Strawn Vickie Booth, CDC Stephanie Bothwell GID Urban Development Trees Atlanta ND 301: IMPLEMENTING THE LEED FOR NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT Charles Brewer Keith Summerour Earl Bradbury, CDC Jack Davis Group The Trust for Public Land you to Open Source Central, and experience how effective the teamwork by RATING SYSTEM / Room 301-302 Catherine Brewton Julie Todd Don Broussard Hank Dittmar Martin/Alexiou/Bryson Resolution Fund, LLC Open Source can be. Newcomers are especially welcome! John Brock Ray Weeks Maggie Byrne, CDC Victor Dover PLLC Southface Learn how to apply the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system Kelly Brooks Dr. Arthur Wendell, CDC Rebekah Calvert Ellen Dunham-Jones Texas Tech University Sustainable Atlanta to a real project. Walk through the phases of a typical project and the Robert Bunker Harry West Ginger Chew, CDC Douglas Farr Urban Land Institute, key decisions that project teams must make, including key stakeholder Brad Calvert Charles Whatley Dan Cotter Norman Garrick ALLIED Atlanta District Council considerations. Engage with experienced LEED Faculty™ and other Ray Christman Vicky Lundy Wilbon Jeffrey Dimond Raymond Gindroz ORGANIZATIONS U.S. Green Building participants in interactive activities using case examples that enable you Judy Corbett Yvonne Williams Christa Essig Jacky Grimshaw Council Colorado Chapter to work hands-on with LEED implementation strategies and rating system Jim Cummings Lynette Young Sherry Everitt-Jones, CDC Jennifer Hurley AARP tools, including project forms. ND 251 or ND 252 is recommended prior to Woody Giles Douglas Kelbaugh Dr. Andrew Dannenberg, AIA Atlanta taking this course. CDC CNU18 COMMITTEE Helen Gordon Katharine Kelley American Cancer Society Jimmy Dills, CDC CHAIRS Andrew & Patti Green Mike Krusee America Walks Ideal audience: Professionals (planners, urban designers, architects, Kevin Doyle Scott Grosse, CDC Steve Maun American Society of Valerie Edwards Catherine Ross: Advisor: Jim Hackler Connie Moran Landscape Architects, engineers, etc.) already familiar with the basic concepts of the LEED for Bill Eisenhauer White House Office of Ryan Hagerty Scott Polikov GA Chapter Neighborhood Development Rating System, but new to implementing it on Steve Foster Urban Affairs Rodney Heard Russell Preston Association County projects; new LEED APs; LEED APs following the prescriptive path; LEED AP Ernestine Garey Heather Alhadeff Rebecca Heery Samuel Sherman Commissioners of ND credential holders seeking LEED-specific CEUs for GBCI’s Wylie Gaston Shan Arora Will Herbig Dhiru Thadani Georgia credential maintenance Renee Glover Scott Ball Vani Herlekar Todd Zimmerman Atlanta Bicycle Coalition John Goff Jackie Benson Herman Howard Dan Slone Atlanta Regional Scotty Greene Chirayu Bhatt Meredith Howell Commission

CNU 18 3 5:00 PM-6:30 PM OPENING NIGHT NETWORKING PRE-CONGRESS WELCOME FORUM / American Cancer Society Auditorium, 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM / Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St, Atlanta 250 Williams St. near Harris St. / Doors open at 4:30. Seating Limited to 400. Cash Bar

Odwalla “Haiti Hope” Tasting provided by The Coca-Cola Company 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Co-hosts: The Home Depot Foundation/Sustainable Cities Institute, CNU 18 OPENING SESSION: HEALTHIER CIRCULATION: BICYCLES, CITIES Central Atlanta Progress & Cousins Properties, and Green Street AND THE FUTURE OF GETTING AROUND / Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St, Atlanta Properties /Jamestown As CNU commences its 18th annual Congress, new urbanists gather to share effective strategies for overcoming the hindering effects of sprawl and To prepare for the 18th Congress to go into session, take part in quick disinvestment upon healthy, walkable urban environments. Key to our briefings by Allies, Partners and CNU Leadership as they set the stage for discussion is how to scale up our success at replacing dysfunctional discussion and advancing the Urban Labs. development with pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods that promote healthy lives, healthy environments, and even healthy wallets? Moderator: Jennifer Ball, Director of Planning, Central Atlanta Progress Kelly Brooks, Stakeholder Relations Director, International Government CNU 18 New Urbanism: Rx for Healthy Places will tackle this question and Relations Group. The Coca-Cola Company: Haiti Hope and International more, beginning with welcomes from Board Chair Ray Gindroz and from the Community/Economic Development former Mayor of the City of Atlanta, the Honorable Shirley Franklin. Hon. Ceasar C. Mitchell. President, Atlanta City Council: Invitation to CNU Jennifer Hurley will explain how the new format of Initiative Workshops Experts & Registrants to Study Atlanta address obstacles to good design and invite attendees to contribute to CNU’s Ray Gindroz, CNU Board Chair: Applying CNU Principles to Urban Lab work of reforming practices and regulations. Study Areas Andres Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co: Framing Priorities Honorary Chair, Dr. Howard Frumkin of the CDC, will introduce the evening’s for the 18th Congress main speaker, musician, environmentalist and philanthropist David Byrne. Laura Heery Prozes and Ellen Dunham-Jones, CNU18 Co-Chairs: The former “Talking Head” will discuss his recent endeavors into New Integrating Issues and Allies into Urban Labs Urbanism and the problems facing modern urban environments. Byrne’s new Sheffield Hale, American Cancer Society: Cancer, Obesity, & book, Bicycle Diaries, chronicles how his use of bicycles as his primary form Sedentary Lifestyles of transportation (and folding bicycles wherever he travels) taught him to Ernestine Garey, President, Atlanta Development Authority: view the world and its cities differently. Recent Successes and Priorities Brian Leary, CEO, Atlanta Beltline, Inc: The Beltline Before opening the floor to questions from the audience, the topic of W W Tad Leithead, Chair, Atlanta Regional Commission: District Strategies 2-wheeled, 2-footed movement will be augmented by cutting-edge EDNE EDNE and Regional Coordination urbanists Ellen Dunham-Jones, Charles Brewer and Scotty Greene. Georgia SMARTCODE INTENSIVE / Grand Salon B & Policy / Matthew J. Trowbridge MD,MPH, Assistant Professor, Department Laurie Volk, Zimmerman Volk Associates: Market Trends Tech architecture professor Dunham-Jones is CNU 18 Chair and co-author SmartCode Intensive is an advanced session meant for seasoned of Emergency Medicine University of Virginia School of Medicine Annick C. Beaudet, Neighborhood Connectivity Division, City of Austin: S of Retrofitting Suburbia; Brewer is the founder of Mindspring and developer S

DAY urbanists who have studied or used form-based codes intimately. Lessons from CNU 16 on Leaving a Legacy of the CNU Charter Award-winning Glenwood Park in Atlanta; Greene has DAY It’s everything you need to catch up on the SmartCode’s latest advances. Bill de St. Aubin, Principal, Sizemore Group: Retrofitting Suburban Corridors used enhanced bicycle networks and other urban strategies to energize the Top experts on the SmartCode will deliver a fast-paced 9.5 hour session on SESSIONS James Shelby, Commissioner, Bureau of Planning and Development, Buckhead area of Atlanta in his role as executive director of the Buckhead the power of this form-based code -- transect-based code -- unified Free with Congress Registration. City of Atlanta: Near-term Targets Community Improvement District. development code -- model ordinance. The SmartCode and its modules Andrea Pinabell, Director, Sustainable Cities Institute: SCI-CNU Web-blog represent the input of countless planners, politicians, developers and 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM To close the evening and encourage attendees to submit their remedies to citizens -- a collective knowledge base that spans decades. NEW URBANISM 101 / Grand Ballroom D The Home Depot Foundation has launched the Sustainable Cities Institute the downtown Urban Lab, Georgia Tech Professor Doug Allen will orient us to SPEAKERS: Nathan Norris, Rick Hall, DeWayne Carver, Hazel Borys, Ann This in-depth primer on the history, principles, and concepts of New (SCI) website and city program. SCI supports the CNU 18 Urban Labs and the fascinating – and hilarious - history of ’s street grids. Daigle, Laura Hall, Andrés Duany, Robert Gibbs, Galina Tahchieva, Doug Farr, Urbanism provides Congress attendees the opportunity to hear Andrés Duany invites you to provide feedback, search, sketch, & submit your concepts for Dan Slone, Sandy Sorlien, Jennifer Hurley, Peter Swift, Marina Khoury, Ken and other leading practitioners and authors of the movement discuss why making Atlanta a healthier place at the SCI kiosk. CNU 18 Opening: Raymond L. Gindroz, Co-founder and Principal, Groves, Chad Emerson. New Urbanism works. The day-long course provides an illustrated Urban Design Associates / The Honorable Shirley Franklin, Former Mayor introduction and a foundation in key concepts such as conventional vs. of the City of Atlanta; Regional Commission on Homelessness and Spelman Find out more and register at SmartCodeComplete.com. For questions email traditional development, the Charter, the transect, sustainable urbanism, College Center for Digital Equality / John O. Norquist, President and CEO, [email protected] or phone (204) 989-0217. Fee: $49 retrofitting suburbia and healthy communities. Attend this session and you Congress for the New Urbanism / Jennifer Hurley, President & CEO, will walk away with an excellent understanding of what makes a great Hurley-Franks & Associates / Douglas C. Allen, ASLA, Senior Associate 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM place and why! Dean and Professor, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology BUILDING SAFER STREETS FOR HEALTHIER NEIGHBORHOODS / Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Ellen Dunham- Grand Salon C Jones, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology / Doug Farr, President and PANELISTS: Safety standards, liability, and emergency response are often barriers to the Founding Principal, Farr Associates Architecture & Urban Design / Charles Charles Brewer, Managing Member, Las Catalinas Holding Company, LLC / implementation of successful livable streets. This 3-hour special session Green, Health Communication Specialist, Centers for Disease Control and David Byrne, Artist and Musician / Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor, Georgia examines the specific concerns that engineers, lawyers, and fire officials Prevention / Joseph Kohl, Co-founder, Dover Kohl & Partners / Jeff B. Speck, Institute of Technology / Scotty Greene, Former Executive Director, have with livable streets, and discusses how to overcome them. Learn how Speck & Associates LLC / Eleanor Smith, Director, Concrete Change Buckhead Community Improvement District the principles of the New Urbanism can be used to provide a broader, more Limited signed copies of Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries will be on sale at the comprehensive approach to health and life safety, and learn the latest news Tabernacle Theatre on May 19 and at the CNU bookstore through the from CNU’s Emergency Response & Street Design Initiative, which has duration of the Congress. engaged fire marshals and new urbanists to find common solutions that provide great streets. This session is free and open to all. Eric Dumbaugh, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University / Marcy McInelly, Associate Principal, SERA Architects / Sara Zimmerman, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Health Law

4 WWW.CNU18.ORG CNU 18 5 Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health, Centers for 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM editor of Megaregions; Planning for Global Competitiveness and Andrew Disease Control and Prevention / Dr. Richard Jackson, Professor and Chair, COMMUNITY-DRIVEN AND HEALTH-CENTERED: REDEVELOPMENT AT Dannenberg speaking relative to his work leading the CDC’s Healthy Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health / Moderator: FORT MCPHERSON / Grand Ballroom AB Community Design Initiative. THURSDAY Bill Gilchrist, Senior Associate and Project Manager, AECOM Peter Calthorpe, Calthorpe Associates / Catherine Ross, Director, Center for Redevelopment projects are not always welcomed by existing communities. Using the BRAC closure of Fort McPherson as an example, four speakers Quality Growth & Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology / 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM will have a conversation about the role of charrettes, Health Impact Moderator: Scott Polikov, Gateway Planning Group THE NEXT GENERATION OF NEW URBANISTS: A ONE-DAY CONGRESS / Assessments, community benefit programs and other means of working MAY 20 Room 208 with neighbors to advance social justice and equity. A one-day forum for newcomers and veterans alike; students, professionals, Michael Dobbins, Georgia Institute of Technology / Jane Branscomb, NEW URBANISM 202s advocates, and new members interact, debate, present ideas and explore Research Associate, Georgia Health Policy Center / Deborah Scott, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM innovative ways to improve our built and natural environment. NextGen Executive Director, Georgia Stand Up / Herman Howard, HOK, / Require registration and separate fee. CONGRESS REGISTRATION / 2nd Floor Lobby seeks to advance CNU through open source collaboration and encouraging Moderator: Bill Lennertz, Executive Director, National Charrette Institute participation among a diversity of experience levels, backgrounds and fields. Help us build momentum and join the discussion. www.cnunextgen.org 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM A- DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR MASTER PLANNING PURSUANT TO A URBAN LAB BOX LUNCH imagine ATLANTA healthy, livable, & FORM-BASED CODE / Grand Salon A 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM sustainable Co-hosts: Sustainable Cities Institute, Central Atlanta Progress, Leading designers will share the various principles, approaches and tricks of BREAKFAST / Grand Salon D ALL TALK? --- HERE’S THE ACTION: HOW CIDS AND OTHER INNOVATIVE Atlanta Regional Commission the trade they use to design within the parameters of a form-based code. ALTERNATIVES HAVE TRANSFORMED DISTRICTS / Grand Ballroom AB Seating and Box Lunches limited to 60-75. Panelists will share their approach to designing buildings, blocks, and ORIENTATION BREAKFAST FOR FIRST-TIME ATTENDEES / Room 212-214 Looking back at the past decade, Atlanta utilized new implementation and Livable Corridors with Biking for Children to Seniors neighborhoods to make the most out of form-based zoning. Following brief financing innovations for transit oriented development, parks and housing. Dive into concepting and sketching over base maps of how to connect presentations from the panelists, attendees will have the opportunity to 12:30 PM – 6:30 PM With approvals from the City government and agencies, many Downtown and the Beltline to recreation “Centers of Hope” and MARTA implement the designers’ approaches in a hands-on design session. This EXHIBITS / Grand Salon D transformations of Atlanta’s business districts were led by Community Transit Stations – while improving how we handle water! interactive session is an excellent opportunity for designers and developers Improvement Districts, self-taxing quasi-governmental organizations, Moderators: Laura Heery Prozes, Pre-Congress & Urban Labs Chair CNU18 interested in building within form-based codes. For regulators responsible GUIDED TOURS steering design and implementation of vital capital improvements. How do / Jennifer Ball, Director of Planning, Central Atlanta Progress / Dan Reuter, for enforcing form-based codes, there will be a separate breakout session All depart from and return to Atlanta Hilton Lobby. CIDs work? District leaders have as many stakeholders as mayors of small Atlanta Regional Commission / Bill de St. Aubin, Principal, Sizemore Group / aimed at identifying and resolving designs that conflict with regulations. Require registration and a separate fee. towns. From behind-the-scenes of public-private partnerships during Allies: Hon. Ceasar C, Mitchell, President Atlanta City Council / Robert Alminana, AICP, LEED AP, Principal of Hall Alminana Inc. / James 2000-2010, these leaders who will show “before and after” and discuss how Commissioner Rob Hunter, Department of Watershed Management / Dougherty, Director of Design, Dover, Kohl & Partners / Geoff Dyer, Director 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM they implemented infrastructure retrofits and livable community projects. Commissioner James Shelby, Department of Planning and Development / of Canadian Operations, PlaceMakers, LLC; Principal and Urban Designer, TOUR 10. Downtown: Atlanta’s Corridor Susan Mendheim, President, Midtown Alliance/Midtown Improvement Jodi Merriday, Atlanta Committee for Progress / Ernestine Garey, President, T-Six Urbanists Inc, Placemakers LLC / Daniel Parolek, AIA, Principal, TOUR 11. Atlanta’s Local Food Movement District / Shannon Powell, COO, Midtown Alliance/Midtown Improvement Tyrone Rachal, Atlanta Development Authority / Mandy Mahoney, City of Opticos Design, Inc. / Moderator: Caleb Racicot, Senior Principal, Tunnell- District / Scotty Greene, Former Executive Director, Buckhead Community Spangler-Walsh & Associates, Joni Priest, Planner, Nashville Metro T Atlanta Sustainability Officer / Robert Reed / Shan Arora, Southface Energy T HU 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Improvement District / Yvonne Williams, President, Perimeter Instittute / Lynnette Young/Townsend Bailey*, Sustainable Atlanta / Planning Department HU Community Improvement District / Ernestine Garey, RS TOUR 13. Midtown’s Got Legs (and Wheels) sponsored by Bicycle Briefings: Brian Leary, CEO Beltline Partnership / Ed McBrayer, PATH RS Tours of Atlanta President, Atlanta Development Authority / AJ Robinson, President, Central Foundation / Susan Rutherford, Department of Watershed Management / B- INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR ASSESSING HEALTH AND CLIMATE IMPACTS DAY DAY Atlanta Progress/Atlanta DID / Jennifer Ball, Vice President, Planning, Table Discussion Leaders / Andrea Pinabell, Director Sustainable Cities OF DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS / Grand Salon B 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Central Atlanta Progress / Atlanta DID / Charles Whatley, Director of Institute & The Home Depot Foundation / Judy Adler & Laura Seydel, Turner Learn innovative, state-of-the-art tools for planners, architects, engineers TOUR 12. Inman Park and Inman Park Village: Atlanta’s First and Most Business Development Moderators: Tyrone Rachal, Senior Development Foundation / Faye DiMassimo, Director, Cobb County Dept. of Transportation and public health officials and researchers in order to assess and Recent Planned Community Manager, Atlanta Development Authority / Laura Heery Prozes, Chair, Charles Green, Healthy Community Design Initiative, CDC / David Green, quantify relative climate and health impacts of contrasting land use and TOUR 14. Serenbe: Organic Planning, Architecture and Farming Pre-Congress & Urban Labs Perkins & Will / Norman Garrick, University of Connecticut / Herman transportation investment proposals for area-specific and region scale Howard, HOK / Gianni Longo, Principal, ACP Visioning & Planning / Tom Low considerations. Presentations include in-depth case study demonstrations 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM / Monica Carney Holmes, Duany Plater Zyberk / Nathan Norris, of such approaches followed by analyses and step-by-step methods and HIA INITIATIVE WORKSHOP: HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT BASICS FOR Placemakers / Ben Jordan / Trudy Strawn, The Coca-Cola Company / James strategies to meet requirements. SESSIONS HEALTHY PLACES / Room 207 Shelby / Charletta Wilson Jack, City of Atlanta, Bureau of Planning / Dhiru Scott Bernstein, Center for Neighborhood Technology / Lawrence Frank, Increasing concerns about obesity and other chronic diseases have led to Thadani, CNU Board & Charter Member / Brett Van Akkeren, Smart Growth Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA, Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Urban questions about how the places where we live, work, play and learn can Analyst, US EPA / Tom Walsh, Tunnell, Spangler Walsh / Lynnette Young / Transportation Systems, Institute for Resource and Environment, University 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM influence public health. In response, Health Impact Assessments, or HIAs, Townsend Bailey*, Sustainable Atlanta of British Columbia AFTER URBAN SPRAWL AND PUBLIC HEALTH: NEW AGENDAS ON HEALTH can be used to measure a proposed development plan’s potential effects on AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT / Grand Ballroom AB human health. HIAs result in evidence-based recommendations designed 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM C- RETAIL LOUNGE 2010:CREATING THE MIXED-USE “HEART” – THE REAL Six years after publishing their remarkable book on the health impacts to enhance positive health outcomes and minimize negative ones. Seasoned TODAY’S BEST FORM-BASED CODES / Room 207 CENTER OF TOWN OF NEW URBANIST PROJECTS / Room 201 of sprawl, the three authors – each distinguished leaders in the impact of HIA practitioners will provide introductory tools to show you how to conduct Join us for in-depth analysis of the 2010 FBC Award winners: The Denver Have you ever contemplated the attributes of a thriving mixed-use town, or the environment on health – will speak to the new opportunities advancing an HIA, integrate it into the urban design process and provide resources on Commons, with extensive on-the-ground results; the Heart of Peoria wondered what it takes to create such a healthy retail environment? Come design, research, and policy on healthy placemaking. Dr. Howard Frumkin how to build your capacity to promote health and equity in the communities Form-Based Code written for specific areas with high potential for listen to some of North America’s experts in planning, development and and Dr. Richard Jackson have both served as director of the National Center where you work. The workshop will conclude with discussion of CNU revitalization; and Miami 21, a clear and concise new code for the entire leasing, as well of some of our nation’s leading retailers and business for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control. Still with the member interested in establishing a health-based initiative and workplan. City of Miami. operators as they discuss lessons learned, proven strategies, and real life CDC, Dr. Frumkin is honorary chair of CNU 18 and working on health and James Dills, ORISE Fellow, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and examples for the successful development and implementation for creating climate change. Dr. Jackson led the California Department of Public Health, Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM the central “heart” of town. Presenters will forge a comprehensive definition chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Promotion, CDC / Sarah Heaton Kennedy, MPH, Public Health Analyst, VISION CALIFORNIA: CLIMATE CHANGE METRICS AND MANDATES FOR of mixed-use town centers and provide effective “roll up your sleeves” Health and is chair of environmental health sciences at UCLA. Director of Healthy Community Design Initiative, CDC / Karen Leone de Nie, Research HEALTHY REGIONS / Grand Ballroom AB approaches that are working in today’s difficult real estate marketplace. the seminal SMARTRAQ study and numerous others, Dr. Lawrence Frank is a Manager in Community and Economic Development, Federal Reserve Bank CNU co-founder Peter Calthorpe presents Vision California, a statewide Macon Toledano, Vice President, LeylandAlliance LLC / Michael D. Watkins, landscape architect and holds the Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Trans- of Atlanta / Richard Jackson, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health effort to coordinate land use and transportation investments in meeting the AIA AICP LEED-AP CNU-A, Architect, Mike Watkins Architecture / Moderator: portation Systems at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health / Michelle J. Marcus, MPH, Research state’s environmental and fiscal changes. He will also debut Rapid Fire Max Reim, Principal and Co-Managing Partner, Live Work Learn Play LLP University of British Columbia. Scientist, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia software that projects GHG, health, and other impacts relative to regional Lawrence Frank, Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA, Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Institute of Technology / Amanda Thompson (invited) - Planning Director, VMT scenarios. This work is being conducted in relation to high-speed rail Urban Transportation Systems, Institute for Resource and Environment, City of Decatur, GA planning and progressive MPO sustainability planning requirements. University of British Columbia / Howard Frumkin, M.D., Ph.D., Special Is metric-based statewide land-use planning politically feasible throughout the country? Respondents to this and other questions include Catherine Ross in her capacity as advisor to the White House Office of Urban Affairs and

6 WWW.CNU18.ORG CNU 18 7 D- RETROFITTING SUBURBIA / Room 202 G- SMART GROWTH 101-999 / Grand Salon C Learn from the authors of Retrofitting Suburbia, A Legal Guide to Urban and Is it possible to cover all of the bases of smart growth in a single half-day Sustainable Development, and the forthcoming Sprawl Repair Manual about session? Jeff Speck and Mike Lydon vow to try. Creators of the new Smart the proposed and implemented range of innovative urbanizing solutions Growth Manual alongside Andres Duany, the instructors will critically to retrofit single-use, low-density, car-dependent property types for a address the topic from the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the sustainable metropolitan future. Designers, developers and public window-box. Duany will kick off this discussion before introducing planners will learn successful techniques - as well as potential pitfalls - for fellow presenters. transforming dying malls, moribund strip centers, outmoded office parks, Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Mike Lydon, aging garden apartment complexes and more. The presentation of key The Street Plans Collaborative / Jeff B. Speck, CNU-A, AICP LEED-AP, urban design principles, prototypical techniques, in-depth case studies and Speck & Associates LLC regulatory frameworks for implementation will be followed by discussion of the frontiers of innovation for the next generation of suburban retrofits. New H- “CODING” FOR LEED FOR NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT urbanists are well positioned to respond to ongoing wrenching shifts in the / Grand Salon B real estate “sprawl machine” with sustainable redevelopment solutions to Many municipalities are using LEED for Neighborhood Development the pressures of future population growth. Join us to learn how you can (LEED-ND) as a sustainability benchmark and to audit their development successfully contribute to meeting this challenge. codes. Unfortunately, such code audits routinely reveal that some or most Daniel K. Slone, Esquire, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP / Galina Tachieva, of LEED-ND is locally illegal. The strategic response often has three steps: Partner, Duany Plater-Zyberk / June Williamson, Associate Professor of make ND legal, encourage ND, and ultimately require ND. This workshop Architecture - Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York/ focuses on the techniques of meeting LEED-ND prerequisites and credits CUNY through revisions to laws and codes governing existing and new development. This interactive session has three parts: 1) Easy Fixes, E- RESUSCITATE, REPOSITION AND REGENERATE – DEVELOPMENT 2) Legal Limitations to achieving LEED-ND through codes, and 3) Case STRATEGIES TO ADAPT TO THIS RECESSION / Grand Salon C Studies of using LEED-ND as an audit tool (Denver/Boulder/DC). A basic Hear what experienced developers across North America are doing to familiarity with LEED-ND is assumed. adjust projects and, some cases, even thrive during this recession. Case Doug Farr, President and Founding Principal, Farr Assoc. Architecture & studies will focus on New Urbanist projects that successfully completed Urban Design / Leslie Oberholtzer, Principal And Director of Planning, Farr several phases before this economic recession and how they adjusted Associates / Daniel K. Slone, Esquire, Partner, McGuire Woods LLP projects to respond to market conditions. Learn from esteemed developers as they reflect on competitive advantages and disadvantages of New I- YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL - GREAT PLACES AND PRACTICAL Urbanist planning, product types, amenities and other elements relative THOROUGHFARES- WITH THE CNU/INSTITUTE OF TRAFFIC ENGINEERS to more conventional development. Panelists will share insights on MANUAL / Room 202 T T

HU breathing new life into stalled markets, projects and financing, The CNU/Institute of Traffic Engineers manual gives us a guidebook on how HU restructuring and repositioning, investor relations, marketing strategies for to design “big” streets that balance among the sometimes competing modes RS RS generating traffic, tenant negotiations, sales and leasing incentives, public and uses of a public street. Skepticism on the parts of both citizens and DAY agency assistance with infrastructure funding and entitlement flexibility, public agencies that this is even possible can be a barrier to achieving the DAY redesigns that respond to shifting consumer fundamentals and more. goals of the manual. This presentation includes practical tips and case Tom Troy, Senior Vice President, Sharbell Development Corp / studies for how to convince the “traveling public” and agencies that we can Vince Graham, President, I’On Group / Moderator: Jim Constantine, design streets that are both great places and serviceable for traffic. 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Looney Ricks Kiss / Sam Sherman, Partner, Sam Sherman Assoc. LLC; Philip Erickson, AIA, President, Community Design + Architecture / Lucy THURSDAY NIGHT SALONS AND ART AUCTION / The Wieland Pavilion at The New Urban Ventures LLC / Frank Starkey, President Longleaf Development Gibson, Principal, Smart Mobility, Inc. / Paul Moore, PE, Principal, AECOM , 1280 Peachtree St / MARTA Arts Center Station N5 Company Design + Planning / Edward Schock, Mayor, City of Elgin, IL Take in dinner in Atlanta’s popular Midtown neighborhood and then come to the Richard Meier/Renzo Piano-designed High Museum to join in the Salons. J- SMALL-INCREMENT URBANISM: FUN WITH CHALLENGING A great CNU tradition, tables on a variety of topics hosted by the witty and NEW URBANISM 202s DEVELOPMENT MATH / Grand Salon A the wise invite members to meet, brainstorm, and challenge their thinking 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Developing small-scale urban projects is one of the few viable development – aided by a cash bar. Several tables will focus on this year’s Pre-Congress strategies for times of constrained access to capital. It is likely to be key Urban Labs and engage with issues of water stewardship, sprawl repair, and to development as America recovers and resumes the process of responses to civil rights legacies. Other topics include “Sustainability as a re-urbanization. This session examines the mechanics of developing small National Imperative,” “Meta-Physical Planning,” “The Shrinking Cities F- INNOVATIONS IN COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING / Room 201 urban infill properties: completing or enhancing urban neighborhoods, Debate,” “Growing Local: CNU 19,” and “Public Health Meet-Up.” Got a Following a brief introduction concerning the many ways New Urbanism retrofitting suburban locations, and breaking larger parcels into manageable better idea? Come and host a table on your own topic! Attendance is free. has dramatically changed the creation and implementation of development increments. Emphasis will be on the influence of the pro forma comprehensive plans, this session focuses on techniques and tools planners on scale and form, exploring what elements trigger increased costs and Unique to this year’s Salons will be the introduction of an Art Auction. can use in their practice and presents examples drawn from established influence phasing potential. Pieces from established artists as well as your favorite New Urbanists will best practices and evolving ideas. Participants will gain a practical John Anderson, Principal, Anderson Kim / Ari Heckman, HM Ventures LLC / be on display in the exhibit hall and the evening will culminate with a Live understanding of how to create extensive plans that elevate the importance Michael Lander, Lander Group / Todd Zimmerman, Co-Managing Director, Auction, featuring John Norquist as the auctioneer! Some of the highlights of character and quality of place while pursuing the goal of creating healthy Zimmerman/Volk Associates Inc include an original watercolor painting by author James Howard Kunstler, communities. Topics include using visualizations to set the plan’s vision, a one-of-a-kind quilt entitled “Transect Zones” by Karen Tunnell, and creating a place-based plan framework through transportation, incredible photographs from Paul Muldawer and Phillip Jones, among many, incorporating form and character into the plan, and linking sustainability 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM many others. In addition to the beautiful works of art, we will auction off a and health-in-the-city principles. EXHIBITS RECEPTION / Grand Salon D weekend stay at Alys Beach, the stunning new beach town on Florida’s Bill Gilchrist, Senior Associate, AECOM Design + Planning / Gianni Longo, Meet our CNU 18 exhibitors and network with other New Urbanists. panhandle. The auction starts at 9:30. Principal, ACP Visioning & Planning / Matt Raimi, Principal, Raimi + Cash Bar. Associates, Inc.

8 WWW.CNU18.ORG CNU 18 9 SESSIONS Initiative, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Control and Prevention/ Moderator: Tegan K Boehmer, PhD MPH, GOING MODULAR: HOW TO ASSEMBLE A HEALTHY ZONING CODE / FRIDAY Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control Grand Salon C Learn about the latest and greatest shareware modules that plug into 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT (TOD) form-based codes from the authors of these helpful tools. Modules profiled WORK IN ATLANTA? / Grand Ballroom AB HOW PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS CAN LEVERAGE CODES FOR HEALTHIER include the Base Articles of the new “modularized” v10 SmartCode and the For over 30 years, Atlanta has pursued a vision of transit investment leading COMMUNITIES (AND HOW CODE WRITERS CAN LEVERAGE PUBLIC HEALTH following Supplementary Modules appropriate for all transect/context based MAY 21 to dense infill and real estate developers have invested heavily in codes: (1) Complete Streets; (2) Lifelong Communities; (3) Transit Oriented OFFICIALS FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES) / Room 207 transit-oriented development To date, however, there has been limited In this session, public health officials will learn how codes are the strongest Development; (4) Sustainable Urbanism; and (5) Agriculture & Healthy Food. success in achieving transit networks and neighborhoods to support this tools for improving the health of the built environment. Simultaneously, M. Scott Ball, Senior Project Manager, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / vision. How have other cities dealt with this challenge and what options new urbanists will learn how they can utilize health data and information DeWayne Carver, Senior Project Manager, Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc. 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM might Atlanta pursue? This session matches planners, transit providers to address concerns of other officials, such as fire chiefs and public works / Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince’s Foundation / Christina Miller, CONGRESS REGISTRATION / 2nd Floor Lobby and private investors to identify specific actions available to Atlanta for officials. Moreover, presenters will demonstrate the historic basis for Designer, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Leslie Oberholtzer, Principal successful TOD. considering health in zoning codes, as well as the fast-growing role of And Director of Planning, Farr Associates / Moderator: Sandy Sorlien, Charles A. Konas, Executive Vice President, Construction & Property Health Impact Assessments. Director of Technical Research, Center for Applied Transect Studies 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM Services, Post Properties / Catherine Ross, Director, Center for Chris Brewster, Associate Vice President, Gould Evans Associates / Shaunna BREAKFAST / Grand Salon D Quality Growth & Regional Development, Georgia Institute of Technology / Burbidge, PHD, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of INTERSECTION OF GREEN AND GRAY INFRASTRUCTURE Dr. Beverly A. Scott, General Manager/CEO, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Utah / Daniel Parker, MSP, Sustainability Director, Division of Environmental / Grand Ballroom AB 7.45 AM – 2:15 PM Transit Authority / Fred Yalouris, Design Director, Atlanta Beltline, Inc. / Public Health, Florida Department of Health / Arthur M. Wendell, Healthy New Urbanist block patterns are well documented. Not so well documented EXHIBITS / Grand Salon D Moderator: Paul Moore, PE, Principal, AECOM Design + Planning Community Design Initiative, National Center for Environmental Health, are successful adaptations of these patterns where they intersect natural Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Moderator: Laura Hall, features. As demand for green performance grows, how is New Urbanism GUIDED TOURS 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Principal, Hall Alminana, Inc. incorporating natural systems into the Transect? All depart from and return to Atlanta Hilton Lobby. NEW URBANISM AS AN ANTIDOTE TO URBAN WATER WOES: WATER Peter Drey, Architect /Urban Designer, Peter Drey Design / Brian M. Leary, Require registration and a separate fee. SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD (AND REGIONAL) DESIGN CREATING LIFELONG COMMUNITIES / Grand Salon B President and Chief Executive Officer, Atlanta Beltline Inc. / Jaquelin T. / Room 208 Initiative workshop While many policy makers, designers, architects and builders have Robertson, FAIA. FAICP, Founding Partner, Cooper Robertson & Partners / 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Like traffic, we often try to manage water in broad terms of flow and researched and discussed extensively the kinds of homes and neighborhoods John Torti, President, Torti Gallas and Partners TOUR 17. Midtown: Atlanta’s Creative Class Mecca performance levels. Like transportation, regional water resource the growing older adult population will require, change is not occurring on management by way of engineered collection and diversion has often par with the need. This discussion will examine the most important issues IN SEARCH OF GOOD NEWS: ASSESSING THE NEW URBANISM IN THE FACE 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM spread without regard to environmental scale or development context, that communities must address in order to accommodate the aging of the OF THE RECESSION / Grand Salon B TOUR 15. : Quality Growth Emerges from Urban Brownfield with predictable declines in watershed health. Taking cues from CNU’s population and highlight several programs that are attempting to scale up As the dramatic “Great Recession” continues to unfold, almost no real transportation reform agenda, this workshop compares sustainable estate projects have been immune. Will an equally dramatic “re-set” take 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM community transformation. F urbanism’s water strategies to current conventional standards and F Harrison Rue, Principal, ICF International / Brett VanAkkeren, U.S. place in the industry? Will walkable neighborhood and compact urban RI TOUR 19. Smyrna and Post Riverside Tour regulations that are intended to protect and enhance water resources. RI Environmental Protection Agency: Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation development be shining lights to follow as the market emerges from this D TOUR 18 DAY . Glenwood Park: From Brownfield with Green Street In addition to addressing policy and technical barriers to expanded use of retraction, decline in values and significant cessation of development? This AY / Respondent: M. Scott Ball, Senior Project Manager, Duany Plater-Zyberk green infrastructure, participants can expect a lively discussion on CNU & Company / Kathryn Lawler, External Affairs Manager, Atlanta Regional session will evaluate the past, current and future performance of urban 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM water sustainability priorities, a research agenda, critical partnerships development from cross-cutting perspectives. Attendees will hear the TOUR 20. Commission Evening Tour and Cocktails: Antebellum Roswell Temple House and potential funders to launch a new CNU initiative. foremost forward-thinking on ways to evaluate the investment performance and Mill Village Tour - co-sponsored by the ICA&CA Paul Crabtree, President, Crabtree Group, Inc / Danielle Gallet, WHERE TO GO FROM HERE? RETHINKING STALLED SUBURBAN of urban development. Panelists will discuss the “Property Value Theory” Infrastructure Strategist, Center for Neighborhood Technology / Jacky DEVELOPMENT / Grand Salon C of urbanism, 21st-century household, the new housing paradigm, and the Grimshaw, Vice President for Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology The recession has left many towns and cities with unfinished projects in the marketability of “Green” in the face of the recession, and possible 8:00 AM-9:00 AM / Rob Hunter, Commissioner of Watershed Management, City of Atlanta / suburbs. As we anticipate resurgence in growth, what will become of these investment value vs. cost of Health Impact Assessments. FRIDAY MORNING PLENARY-PARTNERING TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE Thomas E. Low, AIA, LEED, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk projects? Will they continue to promote sprawl and traffic congestion, or Jonathan Bartlett, Vice President, RCLCO (Robert Charles Lesser & Co) COMMUNITIES: A SPECIAL ADDRESS BY U.S. HOUSING AND URBAN & Company / John Jacob, Coastal Community Development Specialist, Texas can they be retrofitted for better, healthier built environments? By studying / Andrew Burleson, President, CNU Houston / Laurie Volk, Co-Managing DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY SHAUN DONOVAN / Grand Ballroom AB Sea Grant, Texas A&M University / Dee Merriam, Community Planner, alternatives and their forms, economics, and phasing now, feasible solutions Director, Zimmerman/Volk Associates Inc / Moderator: Candace Rutt, Health This year, CNU has the privilege of welcoming the Honorable Shaun Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Lisa Nisenson, Principal, can be prepared to convert cul-de-sac neighborhoods into more sustainable Psychologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Donovan, the 15th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Nisenson Consulting / Milt Rhodes, Director, New Urban Water Works / communities. Overseeing a housing sector ravaged by market shock and the near-failure Surabhi Shah, Internal Consultant, USEPA Office of Water and Watersheds Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology / Shyam FREEWAY TEARDOWNS / Grand Salon A of lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Donovan has responded with / Moderator: Steve Wise, Natural Resources Program Director, Center for Kannan, Vice President of Research & Development, RCLCO / Michael G. CNU’s successful campaign to replace unnecessary urban freeways with visionary leadership. Recognizing that a U.S. economy in desperate need Neighborhood Technology boulevards continues to accelerate. Learn how well the removal of the West of a recovery can no longer afford to have Federal departments working at Messner, General Partner, Seminole Capital / Milt Rhodes, Planning Director, Bluffton, South Carolina Daniel K. Slone, Esquire, Partner, Side Highway in NYC, has worked out for 35 years. Come learn about the cross-purposes, he has joined with his counterparts at the U.S. Department removal of the West Side Highway in NYC, CNU’s work on the Claiborne of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the McGuireWoods LLP / Dhiru Thadani, AIA, Architect + Urbanist / Moderator: Bill Tunnell, President, Tunnell Spangler Walsh & Associates Expressway in New Orleans’ historic Treme District, and the City of Atlanta’s innovative Partnership for Sustainable Communities, through which the three 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM plans relative to the I-75/85 entry and exit ramps. This session will build agencies target policies that promote automobile dependency and energy BREAK / Grand Salon D HEALTH AND TRANSPORTATION / Grand Salon A on the poignant lessons learned from the 1970s success of Atlanta inefficiency and reorient them around six livability principles that echo the Refreshments provided. neighborhood activists at stopping an intown freeway from being Charter of the New Urbanism. Donovan brings to the Congress an important What if we designed our cities to be healthy? How would we change transportation networks to provide opportunities for physical activity, constructed – however only after 500 homes had already been destroyed. and welcome message about the elimination of government silos and the The land now houses Freedom Parkway, the six-mile Freedom Park, removal of policy barriers in order to make neighborhoods more walkable, improve safety and respiratory health, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure the benefits and burdens are distributed equitably? In this higher-density infill development, the Carter Center and Presidential Library connected and diverse — all at a tremendous value to the economy. Board and bike and jogging paths that demonstrably contribute to healthy living. Executive Committee Member Stephanie Bothwell has been leading CNU’s session, attendees will be given an overview of transportation-related health impacts; challenged to rethink commonly held assumptions; and provided Heather Alhadeff, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner, Perkins & Will / efforts in DC and will introduce the Secretary to “what is CNU.” John O. Norquist, President and CEO, CNU / Sam Schwartz, President and Stephanie Bothwell, John O. with data to support healthy and sustainable transportation networks. Principal, Urban & Landscape Design / CEO, Sam Schwartz Engineering / Moderator: Jee Mee Kim, Vice President/ Norquist, Laurie Beck, MPH, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and President and CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism / Director of Planning, Sam Schwartz Engineering the Honorable Kasim Reed, Mayor of Atlanta / the Honorable Shaun Prevention / Vickie Boothe, EE, MPH, Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Donovan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Control and Prevention / Audrey de Nazelle PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology / Kenneth E. Powell, MD, MPH / Arthur M. Wendell, Healthy Community Design

10 WWW.CNU18.ORG CNU 18 11 HEALTHY RETROFITS OF COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS, REGIONAL MALLS 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM AND SUBURBAN VILLAGES IN A NEW ECONOMY / Room 207 ACADEMIC PAPER SESSION – FOCUS ON TRANSPORTATION AND CITIES / Commercial vacancies continue to climb. The shift from a consumption- Grand Salon B economy to an experiential economy may further reduce the amount and Showcasing research on a range of topics about New Urbanism, papers type of viable commercial space. What can be done with these underutilized were peer reviewed and selected for their academic rigor, originality, areas? How are they being retrofitted for healthier lifestyles in the scholarship, and creativity. If you are interested in the most recent Charter Award-winning Woodstock Village; along the strip corridor of US 441 investigations and trends, you won’t want to miss this session and it’s in Broward County, FL; and at the regional mall Val D’Europe? Attendees will particular focus on transportation. learn how these retrofit examples are overcoming the economic and health Michelle Marcus, Research Scientist, Center for Quality Growth and Regional challenges of auto-dependent suburban patterns in order to become healthy Development, Georgia Institute of Technology “New Tools for New Urban walkable communities. Transportation Planning” / Christopher McCahill, Graduate Student, Paul Milana, AIA, Partner, Cooper, Robertson & Partners / Cheri Morris, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering “Losing President, Morris & Fellows / Brian Traylor, AICP, ASLA, Senior Planner, Hartford : Transportation Policy and the Decline of an American City” / South Florida Regional Planning Council / Liz York, LEED AP, CNU A Chief Christopher Miller, Graduate Coordinator, Department of Architecture at Sustainability Officer, Centers for Disease Control / Moderator: William de Judson College “Visualizing Morphological Conditions for Pedestrian St. Aubin, Sizemore Group Connectivity “ / Steven Semes, Academic Director of the Rome Studies Program, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture “The City of 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM continuity vs. the City of contrasts: New Urbanism and Historic Preservation” CNU/ULI LUNCHEON: CREATING A MODEL FOR WALKABLE CAMPUS / Pere Vall Casas, Architect; Doctor in Urban Design and Planning, COMMUNITIES, TICKETED EVENT $35 / 191 Peachtree Tower at 191 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya “Retrofitting suburbia through , 41st Floor pre-urban patterns” / Moderator: David Goldberg, Communications Director, ULI Atlanta is welcoming CNU registrants to walk over to HOK’s offices to Transportation for America share lunch and lessons on healthy campus planning. With assistance from ULI, has developed a Walk N’ Roll Campaign to GREAT AMERICAN GRID / Room 208 integrate simple exercise into the busy lives of its students and staff. A This session focuses on the historic American urban patterns of grids and variety of techniques from design changes to new technologies encourage squares, and challenges the New Urbanist trend of emulating European walking and biking so as to improve mental and physical wellness. town planning traditions instead of following American ones. The session will undertake a brief historical review followed by outlining the advantages and 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM desirability of grids and squares. The focus will be on lotting, infrastructure MID-DAY PLENARY: ADVANCING FEDERAL POLICY AND THE SUSTAINABLE development and costs, cost efficiencies, and the health aspects of getting COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP / Grand Ballroom AB around on a gridded street network of interconnected blocks. This session

F How can CNU assist the Sustainability Partnership with implementation? will challenge practitioners to get out of their comfort zone when it F RI What role in silo-busting can CNU and the New Urbanism play to leverage comes to urban plans. Traditional American grids are part and parcel of RI DAY the Partnership? How can new urbanists’ experience with sustainable walkability, aging in place, healthy living and easy to retrofit over the DAY neighborhood and regional planning assist the federal agencies while long-term for Complete Street programs. learning from them? How can LEED ND and the ITE/CNU Street Guide enrich Douglas C. Allen, ASLA, Senior Associate Dean and Professor, College of the Sustainability Partnership? A panel of CNU leadership will discuss the Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology / Jonathan Ford, PE, Principal, Partnership’s agenda and deliberate with leaders from HUD and EPA over Morris Beacon Design / Kevin Klinkenberg, Principal, 180 Degrees Design specific policy recommendations. Come see the Congress live up to its name! Studio / Lee Sobel, Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst, U.S. Shelley Poticha, Director, Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, Environmental Protection Agency: Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation Housing and Urban Development and Tim Torma, Acting Assistant Director for The Smart Growth Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM join CNU leadership to chart strategy for the future. AGRICULTURAL URBANISM PART 1 / INITIATIVE WORKSHOP / Grand Panel of CNU Board members: Raymond L. Gindroz, Jacky Grimshaw, Scott Ballroom AB Polikov, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, John Norquist, Peter Calthorpe, Stephanie The workshop begins with an overview of present-day facts and conditions Bothwell, Norman Garrick, Mike Krusee, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Doug Farr, that challenge the health of developed nations today, including the Scott Bernstein / Moderator: Victor Dover negative impacts of separating eaters from food sources and subsequent health, environmental, economic, political and social repercussions. Once the importance of incorporating agriculture into contemporary life has been 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM demonstrated, examples of evolving and in-practice solutions to these BREAK / Grand Salon D problems will be shared. These will introduce the theory of Agricultural Refreshments provided. Urbanism and the experiences of developers who have built and are building communities around the growing of food. NEXT GENERATION OF NEW URBANISTS COFFEE BREAK / Grand Salon D David Crossley, President, Houston Tomorrow / Andrés Duany, Missed the NextGen on Thursday? Feeling lost in the lobby? Are you a Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Christa Essig, MPH, Public student, new professional, activist or just wondering what we’re all about? Health Analyst, National Center for Environmental Health and Division of Stop by and connect with other energetic New Urbanists and find out about Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, CDC / Sean Hodgins, Century Group/ future events and initiatives. All are welcome. Southlands / James Howard Kunstler, Author / Steve Nygren, Founder/ Managing Partner, Serenbe / Julia S. Sanford, President, White Starr, Inc. Starr Sanford Design Associates / Marina Khoury, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Victoria Ranney, Co-Founder, Prairie Crossing; President, Prairie Holdings Corporation / Moderator: Marina Khoury, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

12 WWW.CNU18.ORG CNU 18 13 CREATING AUTHENTIC PLACES: EMERGING BEST PRACTICES FOR NEW New Urbanism delivers ranging from greater property appreciation to URBAN DEVELOPERS PART 1 / INITIATIVE WORKSHOP / Grand Salon A lower infrastructure costs, current conditions represent a new window of For more than 20 years, the country’s most innovative development opportunity to discuss New Urbanism in more urgent and relevant terms. professionals have been building authentic places. Our speakers will be What framing works best? How can we position key projects, decisions and discussing emerging opportunities for New Urbanism. With a focus on public code changes in terms that are compelling to this most crucial audience? private partnerships and inclusionary housing, this session will look in depth And how does that discussion link to other important audiences including at how post-recession projects can advance several key points of the Charter the general public, developers and neighborhood leaders. This session will of the New Urbanism. To help give a real world example to the discussion, we include insights from top consultants, developers and regional decision will look at how these opportunities can apply locally to key TOD sites along makers who have been in the trenches. the proposed Macon to Atlanta passenger rail line. Don’t miss the insights, Stephen Filmanowicz, Communications Director, Congress for New breaking news and best practices that will be discussed during this Urbanism / Robin Rather, CEO, Collective Strengths / Sam Sherman, interactive session. Learn more at www.creatingauthenticplaces.com. Partner, Sam Sherman Assoc. LLC; New Urban Ventures LLC / Hon. Shirley Alexander Gorlin, Principal, Alexander Gorlin Architects / Roseanne Franklin, former Mayor of Atlanta (invited) Haggerty, President & Founder, Common Ground / Gianni Longo, Principal, ACP Visioning & Planning / Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Principal , CLEAN WATER CORRIDORS, GREENED ACRES, AND ECO-DISTRICTS: Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Moderator: Russell S. Preston, Design COMMUNITY SCALE URBAN RETROFIT STRATEGIES / Room 208 Associate, Cornish Associates Cities across the country are pursuing district level, integrated design strategies to improve sustainable water infrastructure performance at AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SUSTAINABILITY / Room 207 neighborhood scales. This session will explore efforts in this arena from Affordable housing is one of New Urbanism’s most challenging principles three metro areas: Philadelphia, which is implementing a series of Greened to realize. This session will explore the roles of physical design and public Acres, integrating natural drainage across the city to manage stormwater policy in producing affordable housing in the context of sustainable sustainably; Portland, Oregon, which is developing water and energy neighborhoods. The presentations will provide an update on efforts in several efficient Eco-Districts to accelerate neighborhood- scale sustainability; and cities. A panel of respondents will comment on the challenges that lie ahead. Minneapolis-St. Paul, where neighborhood and light rail redevelopments are Shelley Poticha will describe the new Sustainable Communities program of re-opening stream channels and creating a water sensitive transit corridor. the Federal Government. The final hour will be organized as small Glen Abrams, AICP, Watershed Program Manager, Philadelphia Watersheds group discussions in order to debate and define CNU’s role moving this / Paul Crabtree, President, Crabtree Group, Inc / Martin Felsen, AIA, agenda forward. UrbanLab / Danielle Gallet, Infrastructure Strategist, Center for Co-Moderator: Raymond L. Gindroz, Principal Emeritus, Urban Design Neighborhood Technology, Tim Griffin, Director, St. Paul on the Mississippi Associates / Co-Moderator: Dan Solomon, Principal, WRT/Solomon E.T.C. / Design Center / Moderator: Steve Wise, Natural Resources Program Speakers: Thomas “Danny” Boston, Georgia Tech Economics Department, Director, Center for Neighborhood Technology

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DAY Shannon Chance, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture, Hampton 5:30 PM - 7:15 PM DAY University / Frances Ferguson, National Real Estate Programs, FRIDAY NIGHT PLENARY / Grand Ballroom AB NeighborWorks America / Renee Glover, President and CEO, Atlanta Housing Authority / Doug Shoemaker, Mayor’s Office of Housing, City and County of THE SHIFTING FINANCIAL LANDSCAPE Ray Christman, Director of San Francisco / Emily Talen, PhD AICP, Professor, School of Geographical metropolitan Atlanta’s Livable Communities Coalition, is a prominent banker, Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University / Facilitator: Steve A. affordable housing expert, and member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Mouzon, AIA LEED, Principal, Mouzon Design Atlanta’s Real Estate Analytics Center’s Advisory Council. He will speak to the finance questions on new urbanists’ minds before discussing future GOING BEYOND LEED-ND: EXAMINATION OF COMMUNITY-WIDE economic challenges and opportunities with CNU Board members and SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS - Two Back-to-Back Sessions developers Sam Sherman and Katharine Kelley. Kelly Caffarelli of the Home / Grand Salon C Depot Foundation will launch the Sustainable Cities Initiative. New certification programs are going beyond LEED-ND and aspire to assess the sustainability of entire communities and cities. Our cities are built ATHENA MEDAL TO JAQUELIN T. ROBERTSON The annual awarding of the pursuant to codes. Do existing form-based codes produce sustainable cities? Athena Medals honor inspirational leaders who laid the groundwork for New If not, where do they come up short? This session will examine codes through Urbanism. Tonight Dhiru Thadani will present the Athena Medal to Jaquelin the prism of four programs: STAR, Living Building Challenge, One Planet T. Robertson, former Dean of The School of Architecture at the University Communities, and EarthCraft Communities. of Virginia and Founding Partner, Cooper Robertson & Partners. Renowned Lyyne Barker, Program Director, International Council for Local theorist and architect Peter Eisenman will join Jaquelin and Dhiru for a Environmental Initiatives-Local Governments for Sustainability / Christina tribute and discussion on Jaque’s contribution to the field of planning and Corley, Program Manager, Earthcraft Communities / Victor Dover, Principal , urban design. Dover, Kohl & Partners / Doug Farr, President and Founding Principal, Ray Christman, Executive Director of Livable Communities Coalition of Metro Farr Associates Architecture & Urban Design / Laura Hall, Principal, Hall Atlanta / Sam Sherman, Partner, Sam Sherman Assoc. LLC; New Urban Alminana, Inc. / Eden Brukman, Reg Arch, LEED AP Vice President, Ventures LLC / Katharine Kelley, President and CEO, Green Street Properties International Living Building Institute / Walter Brown, Senior Vice / Jaquelin T. Robertson, FAIA, FAICP, Founding Partner, Cooper Robertson & President Green Street Properties / Greg Searle, Respondent, Bioregional Partners / Peter Eisenman, FAIA, Founder and Principal, Eisenman North America, One Planet Communities / Moderator: Robert Reed Architects / Dhiru Thadani, AIA, Architect + Urbanist

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FRIDAY DAY SATURDAY R E U T DAY T ontinued... A RI DA F C S C CNU 18 19 Open to all CNU attendees. 17th Street. CHAPTER MEET-UPS NU NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER MEET UP / Living Room at W Hotel, SESSIONS 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM 45 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard Chapter Meet-Ups are an opportunity to gather with other new urbanists Californians from the “upper 48”, join us for news about the chapter, an SATURDAY 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM from back home to network and learn about what’s happening in your region. informal meeting and discussion about upcoming chapter events, and HOSPITALS AND NEIGHBORHOODS / Grand Salon C For more information about chapters, visit www.cnu.org/chapters meet-and-greet with other chapter members. No RSVP or ticket required, The modern hospital, whether urban or rural, exerts an impact on an entire for more information visit http://cnu-california.blogspot.com/. Walking region. Too often, the impact is detrimental to adjacent neighborhoods. The 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM distance from the Hilton. MAY 22 redesign of the health care campus to community design standards with CNU CASCADIA CHAPTER MEET-UP / McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood mixed-use, residential, and public space yields attractive, sustainable, and Restaurant, 190 Marietta Stree, One CNN Center 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM better performing health care facilities that appeal to patients, families, CNU Cascadia welcomes any Congress participant to attend an informal CNU ATLANTA CHAPTER MEET UP / Baraonda Cafe Italiano, 7:30 AM - 7:00 PM medical staff, employees, and neighbors alike. gathering for cocktails at McCormick & Schmick’s. We will be celebrating 710 Peachtree Street Northeast CONGRESS REGISTRATION / 2nd Floor Lobby Dougal Hewitt, Senior Vice President , Bon Secours Richmond Health our formal chapter status and third annual summit in Vancouver, B.C. this Join CNU Atlanta for a fun evening of evening of good conversation and System / Parry La Gro, Principal, Kathy Helm Associates / June. Hope to see you there. This event is open to all, contact Lauren Hauck some of Atlanta’s best Italian food. Great networking with Atlanta Chapter Moderator: Joanna Lombard, Professor, University of Miami at [email protected] with any questions. Within a 0.7 mile walk from members; Kudos to Congress Host Committee; Announcements about the conference hotel. upcoming events and Congress legacy for the future in Atlanta. $50 ticket 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM URBAN SUCCESS STORIES: HEALTH-DRIVEN POLICY CHANGES / Room 208 required via check or cash, hors d’oeuvres and two drinks will be provided. CNU MEMBER FORUM / Room 208 Looking for great examples at all scales of how planners and public health CNU CAROLINAS CHAPTER MEET UP / Max Lagers, 320 Peachtree Street Contact CNU Atlanta board members or visit www.cnuatlanta.org Join CNU President and CEO John Norquist and CNU Board members and leaders have collaborated to promote healthier communities? Dr. Dick The CNU Carolinas Chapter will host a networking social with fresh brewed Walk 0.9 mi up Peachtree Street from the hotel, or MARTA bus #110 up share your ideas about how the Congress for the New Urbanism should move Jackson will talk about his work at the federal and state level, Dr. Daniel beer and other drinks at Max Lagers for CNU members from the Carolinas, Peachtree to 3rd Street. forward! Bring an appetite for good conversation. Parker will present outcomes of PACE EH projects in Florida, and Dr. Craig and elsewhere, to meet each other and find out what everyone has been Zimring will discuss how New York City produced and adopted its Active working on. CNU Carolinas Chapter members will enjoy the first round of CNU TEXAS CHAPTER MEET UP / 11 Stories at the Glenn Hotel, 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Living Guidelines. drinks on the Chapter and anyone is free to stay for dinner. Come hear what 110 Marietta St NW BREAKFAST / Grand Salon D Richard J. Jackson, MD MPH, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health our chapter has been doing this past year and learn our plans for the future! CNU Central Texas, CNU North Texas and CNU Houston invite all Texas New Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health / Daniel Parker, MSP, Sustainability Open event. Please RSVP to [email protected] if you plan to attend. Walk Urbanists and their friends to join them for a fun evening. This is an open UNDER-REPRESENTED PROFESSIONS BREAKFAST MEET UP / Director, Division of Environmental Public Health, Florida Department of two blocks west on Baker Street and then one block northeast on event, as big as all of Texas with correspondingly sized drink tickets. Folks, Grand Salon D Health / Craig Zimring, Georgia Institute of Technology / Margo Younger, Peachtree Street. you don’t want to miss this! CNU aims to break down professional silos but it’s also good to find those Centers for Disease Control / Moderator: Chinyere O. Ekechi, JD, Public facing similar challenges. Come meet other professionals in engineering, Health Analyst, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CNU COLORADO CHAPTER MEET UP / Max Lagers, 320 Peachtree Street finance, marketing, landscape architecture and your profession or group. Grab a drink and a bite to eat with your fellow CNU members from Colorado. All are welcome. Want to connect but can’t make the event? Email myspace@ THE SUSTAINABLE REGION – GREENING THE LAND, THE ECONOMY, AND Open event, for more information contact [email protected] cnunextgen.org. Brought to you by NextGen (cnunextgen.org). THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT / Room 207 S A F

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of land use, urban heat islands, albedo, forestation, transportation, greener DAY Please join us for a cocktail reception to honor this year’s Athena Medal buildings and communities will be discussed along with greener regional winner, Jaque Robertson, and a fun opportunity to reconnect with friends economies, including the creation of local jobs and supply chains - with some from the Washington DC and New England regions. Open event for chapter 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM promising and not-so-promising examples from Atlanta, the United Kingdom members – find a Board Member for a free drink ticket. SATURDAY MORNING PLENARY / Grand Ballroom AB and Dubai. Join us at our Saturday morning plenary for a look at New Urbanism’s past, Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince’s Foundation / Brian Stone, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM present, and future, as CNU co-founder Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk honors Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology / Moderator: Doug Kelbaugh, CNU GREAT LAKES CHAPTER MEET UP / Beleza, Vincent Scully with an Athena Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and Mayor FAIA, Professor at Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, 905 Juniper Street @ 8th Street Dave Cieslewicz previews CNU 19: Growing Local, June 1-4, 2011, in one of University of Michigan Meet and greet fellow New Urbanists from the Great Lakes Region the nation’s leading bicycle capitals, Madison, WI. Eleanor Smith of Concrete including CNU Illinois and CNU Michigan chapter members as well as the Change, and Andres Duany will discuss CNU’s role in accessibility and new 9:45 AM - 12:45 PM growing Wisconsin and Minnesota chapter organizing committees. Learn first houses and highlight a new pattern book on accessibility. TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS / INITIATIVE WORKSHOP / Grand Salon B hand about plans for CNU 19 in Madison Wisconsin. Light Hors D’oeuvres Dave Cieslewicz, Mayor, City of Madison / Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany The sustainable transportation network supports the creation and and desserts will be served for a modest cover charge at the Brazilian Plater-Zyberk & Company / Jane Grabowski-Miller, RLA, ASLA, CNUÐA, Vice maintenance of great places—those high-quality environments that inspired Beleza Lounge, just one mile north of the convention hotel, one President of Planning & Urban Design, Erdman Development Group / strengthen neighborhood identity and culture. Networks are the key element block east of Peachtree St. in the Midtown neighborhood. Moderator: Chris Kochtitzky, MSP, Associate Director for Program of the public realm; they provide the context for blocks, parks, and buildings Development, Div. of Emergency & Environmental Health Services, CDC’s and the setting for human interaction served by a truly supportive pedestrian CNU FLORIDA CHAPTER MEET UP / Location updates at www.cnuflorida.org National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) / Eleanor Smith, Director, environment. A highly connected, human-scaled network supported by a Join CNU Florida in Atlanta for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Meet new Concrete Change diversity of streets is essential to a healthy urban environment. officers and board members, catch-up on the latest news, connect with old Philip Erickson, AIA, President, Community Design + Architecture / Norman friends, and meet new ones. Show your support for your CNU Florida Garrick, Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Chapter. This is an open event. of Connecticut / Lucy Gibson, Principal, Smart Mobility, Inc. / Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President for Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology / 7:45 PM - 9:30 PM Thomas Kronemeyer, Senior Associate Principal, Community Design + CNU NY, NJ & PA CHAPTER MEET UP / Millennium Gate, Architecture / Marcy McInelly, AIA, Associate Principal, SERA Architects / 395 17th Street at State St. John Peponis, Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology / Sally Flocks, CNU New York and CNU New Jersey along with the Pennsylvania chapter Executive Director PEDS / Moderator: Joseph P. Readdy, AIA, Architect, JRA organizing committee invite all chapter members to a party inside the Millennium Gate, a new Triumphal Arch and Atlanta city museum in Station development. Our co-hosts will be Rodney Cook, the Council for European Urbanism and the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. Free food & cash bar. Take MARTA to Arts Center, ASAP+ (free shuttle bus) to 17th Street at Atlantic Drive, then walk one short block to 395

20 WWW.CNU18.ORG CNU 18 21 AGRICULTURAL URBANISM PART 2 / INITIATIVE WORKSHOP / NEW TRENDS IN THE RETAIL INDUSTRY FOR THE RECESSION RECOVERY: AFFORDABILITY MEETING / Grand Ballroom AB SESSIONS Grand Ballroom AB AN INCREASED RELIANCE ON SMALL RETAILERS / Room 208 Grab a box lunch and join others interested in advancing CNU’s initiative on The second part of this workshop will give some historical perspective In response to the latest economic meltdown, the shopping center industry is affordability. Discuss new hurdles, next steps, and how to build on this year’s surrounding the incorporation of growing food in post-industrial agricultural once again reinventing itself. Walkable communities, historic downtowns and Initiative Workshop. What will you volunteer to do? 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM communities within the past 100 years. Presentation highlights include an small specialty retailers are now considered as the best economically Moderator: Emily Talen, PhD AICP, Professor, School of Geographical HAITI: POST-EARTHQUAKE INTERVENTIONS WITH THE MIAMI DIASPORA / overview of new towns in Spain in the 1950s, the 1986 founding of the Slow sustainable option by developers and financial institutions. Gain an insider’s Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Grand Ballroom AB Food Movement, and the more recent work of progressive cities such as look at how leading shopping center developers, retailers, department The devastation caused by the rupture of the Enriquillo Fault, on January 12, Vancouver (Note: Cities in developing countries maintain a close connection stores, and architects’ programs are planning for the next cycle. The panel PROJECT FOR TRANSPORTATION REFORM MEETING / Grand Salon B 2010 affected urban and rural areas in the Island of Hispaniola-from Santo to intra-urban agriculture; this discussion focuses on affluent nations, will discuss what types of financing, retailers and commercial formats are The Project for Transportation Reform (PTR), a CNU initiative promoting the Domingo to Haiti. This session will present a public involvement model for now). The session will then examine contemporary local examples of emerging in 2011 and beyond. In addition, we will discuss integrating large implementation of connected, multi-modal street networks as the answer to for disaster response and will focus on issues of temporary housing, growing food in Atlanta, including a discussion of business. The session format retailers in the city and new town centers. This program is ideal for many of our transportation, safety, land use and urban design problems, has decentralization of resources, regional planning, economic development, will end with a panel discussion some of the challenges facing the architects, developers, planners, retailers, and public officials. made significant progress since its initiation. In addition to reducing carbon informal urbanism, and their relationship to urban design, management implementation of these communities today, including zoning and a call Robert Gibbs, President, Gibbs Planning Group / Francis Scire, Senior emissions, improved street network connectivity has been demonstrated to and policy. for volunteers to organize an official CNU initiative on the subject. Leasing Executive, Simon Property Group / Terry Shook, Founding Partner increase pedestrian safety, increase vehicular capacity, reduce emergency Sonia Chao, Director, Center for Urban and Community Design / Jaime Vinayak Bharne, Associate, Moule and Polyzoides / Janine de la Salle, and Principal, Shook Kelley Architects / Rob Spanier, Vice President, Live response time, create higher land values, promote economic viability of Correa, Founding Partner, Jaime Correa and Associates / Andrés Duany, Director, Food Systems Planning, HB Lanarc Consultants Ltd. / Bryan Hager, Work Learn Play LLP cities, towns and main streets and contribute to a sense of place. Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Crager Hager Farm / Daron Joffe, CFO, Chief Farming Officer, Farmer D Moderator: Joseph P. Readdy, AIA, Architect, JRA Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company Organics / Jean-Francois LeJeune, Professor and Director of Graduate REINVIGORATING SUBURBAN CENTERS AND SMALL TOWNS: THE LCI Studies, University of Miami / Christina Miller, Duany-Plater-Zyberk & EXPERIENCE / Room 207 SPRAWL RETROFIT INITIATIVE MEETING / Room 207 LIGHTNING ROUND LESSONS FOR CODING / Room 208 Company / Ben Northrup, Architect / Daniel K. Slone, Esquire, Partner, How can existing towns, villages, and suburban centers within a Sprawl is the least sustainable growth pattern, and as increasing evidence Pressed for time? So are we. In this fast-paced session, leading practitioners McGuireWoods LLP / Moderator: Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany metropolitan area reduce auto-dependence? This session showcases shows, has unsupportable environmental, social, economic and even will share the most important lessons learned from the most recent coding Plater-Zyberk & Company successes from the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Livable Centers medical costs. Yet it still represents a major portion of the built environment efforts around the country. Topics include the Top 10 Lessons Learned from Initiatives (LCI) 10-year program. Winner of the EPA’s 2008 national award for that can’t be ignored. For many years, New Urbanists have been engaged in Big City Code Replacement efforts; Top 10 Lessons Learned from Small CREATING AUTHENTIC PLACES: EMERGING BEST PRACTICES FOR NEW smart growth, this program puts transportation funds towards urban design repairing sprawl into quality human environments. Now we have launched Town Coding Efforts; Top 15 Techniques for Building support for Adopting a URBAN DEVELOPERS PART 2 / INITIATIVE WORKSHOP / Grand Salon A planning and implementation of more transportation efficient, healthy, a major initiative to develop a new generation of effective strategies and Form-Based Code; and Top 10 Lessons Learned from the Administration for Join some of CNU’s best development professionals for the second half of and livable places. Over 100 communities have engaged in the program, policies to retrofit sprawling regions. Grab a box lunch and join us to Form Based Codes. a collaborative workshop exploring how to improve the implementation of incrementally building a more sustainable region. Experiences in the process discuss and develop important tools, such as the Sprawl Repair Act -a Jeff Bounds, Planning Consultant, Mississippi Renewal Coalition / Kenneth the Charter of the New Urbanism. Building on the discussions of Part 1, as well as early retrofit results will be highlighted in a Pecha Kucha format legal document that will be a key focus of this critical effort. J. Groves, AICP, Director, Planning & Development, City of Montgomery, our speakers will focus on the details of building and developing authentic to quickly give participants an overview of several projects with ample Doris Goldstein, Law Office of Doris S. Goldstein / William S. Wright, Balch Alabama / Marina Khoury, Partner, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / places. Market conditions and positioning, improvements to the development opportunity for follow-up discussion. & Bingham LLP / Daniel K. Slone, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP, and Galina Matthew Lewis, Assistant Director of Development Services, Planning process and dealing with today’s financing environment will be discussed Marty Allen, City of Suwanee / Andrew Dannenberg, Centers for Disease Tachieva, Partner, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company S Department of San Marcos, TX / Nathan Norris, Director of Implementation S A as well as how these might apply to several local TOD sites. Join this Control and Prevention / Kay Lee, The Center, Covington / Lyn Menne, City of A

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U collaborative session, and help advance CNU’s mission by sharing you Decatur / Tom Weyandt, Atlanta Regional Commission / Yvonne U Group / Moderator: David Green, AIA, LEED® AP, Associate Principal, Senior R thoughts and experiences on the best practices for creating authentic Williams, President, Perimeter Community Improvement Districts R

DAY Urban Designer, Perkins + Will DAY places. Learn more at www.creatingauthenticplaces.com. Katharine Kelley, President and CEO, Green Street Properties / Pam Sessions, Founder, Hedgewood Properties / Todd Zimmerman, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Co-Managing Director, Zimmerman/Volk Associates Inc / Moderator: Russell INITIATIVE MEETINGS S. Preston, Design Associate, Cornish Associates This is your chance to get updates on the latest CNU Initiatives that advance the practice of New Urbanism throughout the year. Whether it is updates on 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM affordable housing, accessibility or the Project for Transportation reform, BREAK / Grand Salon D bring your lunch and join the movement leaders. Refreshments provided. ACCESSIBILITY MEETING / Room 208 Attendance at this year’s Accessibility Luncheon is worth professional 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM development credit! Participants will learn the essential features of a ACADEMIC PAPERS: FOCUS ON HEALTH / Grand Salon C “Visitable” home, discover the basic differences between Visitable and Showcasing research on a range of topics about New Urbanism, papers Accessible housing, and learn how to use the Pattern Book of Inclusive were peer-reviewed and selected for their academic rigor, originality, Housing. Join us for a fun and informative session aimed at helping scholarship, and creativity. If you are interested in the most recent designers and developers support aging-in-place. investigations and trends, you won’t want to miss this session. Edward Steinfeld, Professor of Architecture and Director, Center for Wesley Marshall, PhD, PE, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Center for Inclusive Design Engineering, University of Colorado Denver “Evidence on Why bike-friendly and Environmental Access, School of Architecture and Planning, cities are safer for all road users” / Michael Mehaffy, Managing Director, SUNY/Buffalo / Shannon Chance, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture, Sustasis Foundation“Medical science, evidence-based design, and the Hampton University evolving implications for best practice in Urban Design” / Steven Ryherd, Principal, Arpeggio Acoustic Consulting, LLC “Acoustic expectations, health ACADEMIC PAPER MEETING / Grand Salon C effects and design techniques in the urban environment” / Bill Sadler, Join others interested in advancing academic theory, research, and Graduate student in Master of Urban & Regional Planning, University of publications on new urbanism. Get involved in CNU’s peer review process Colorado Denver“Complete streets make healthier people: reforming street for academic papers for next year and share news of academic programs design policies to combat obesity” / Moderator: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, engaging new urbanism. Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Convener: Lucy M. Rowland, Moderator: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & MS, MLS Head, Science Collections & Research Facilities University of Company / Convener: Lucy M. Rowland, MS, MLS Head, Science Collections Georgia Libraries & Research Facilities University of Georgia Libraries

22 WWW.CNU18.ORG CNU 18 23 TALK NERDY TO ME: HOW DO WE GET TO HEALTHIER OPEN SPACES? / THINKING ABOUT INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL, HIGH SPEED RAIL, Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University / Galina Tachieva, DEVELOPING A MANIFESTO TO SPREAD THE BIKING REVOLUTION TO MORE Grand Salon A AND URBANISM / Grand Salon C Partner, Duany Plater-Zyberk / Bill Wright, Partner, Balch & Bingham LLP BIG AMERICAN CITIES / Grand Salon C Discerning the ideal points of collaboration between design This session will explore the connections between urbanism and intercity More and more American cities are adopting plans to increase bicycle mode professionals and public health researchers will lead to more efficient passenger rail. Intercity passenger rail, specifically the high speed variety Cumberland TOD Workshop: Tad Leithead, Chair, Atlanta Regional share and improve the urban environment. We will look at some of the cities and mutually beneficial partnerships. Open space is generally held to be a has become a hot topic in the United States due to more focus from the Commission / Galina Tachieva, Partner, Duany Plater-Zyberk / June that have had the most success incorporating bikes into their existing tight healthy amenity in communities, and designers pay special attention to the current Administration in Washington. However because our current Williamson, Associate Professor of Architecture - Spitzer School of urban context and have reaped the rewards that result from changing the public space components of their plans. This session focuses on the “how” infrastructure is limited and models are untested, this session will start us Architecture, The City College of New York/CUNY / Lee Sobel, Real Estate culture and expectations about travel in cities. Speakers will share tactics behind open space, and what professionals from each discipline can do to thinking about how we can apply urbanism to the station areas and ensure Development and Finance Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: and war stories that will help other cities craft winning strategies for facilitate the other’s work. positive impacts. Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation / Liz York, AIA, LEED AP, CNU-A, bringing about their own biking revolutions. Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Principal, Urban & Landscape Design / George John Robert Smith, President and CEO, Reconnecting America / Jeff Wood, Chief Sustainability Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Mike Lydon, The Street Plans Collaborative / Rebecca Serna, Executive Dusenbury, Executive Director, Park Pride / Barbara Faga, Principal, AECOM Reconnecting America / Moderator: David Taylor, Senior Vice President, William de St. Aubin, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Sizemore Group Director, Atlanta Bicycle Coalition / Moderator: Norman Garrick, Associate / Greg Heath, Guerry Professor and Head, Department of Health & Human HDR Inc. Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Connecticut / Performance, University of Tennessee Chattanooga / Karen Lee, Deputy Ken Rose, Assoc Director of Policy, NCEH/ATSDR, Centers for Director, NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene / Dee Merriam, Community 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Disease Control Planner, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Latetia Moore, SPRAWL RETROFIT INITIATIVE & CUMBERLAND TOD WORKSHOP / BREAK / Grand Salon D Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Room 207 Refreshments provided. 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM Nutrition Physical Activity, and Obesity / Karen Mumford, Assistant Can we retrofit our sprawling communities through repair and CHARTER AWARDS / Grand Ballroom AB Professor, University of Minnesota, Morris / Stephan G. Poulakos, Director redevelopment? Find out at the interactive Sprawl Retrofit Initiative work- Vince Graham, founder and president of the I’On Group based in Mt. of Town Development, Seabrook, Washington / Moderator: James Dills, shop! The first hour includes a dynamic Pecha Kucha presentation by mem- 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Pleasant, S.C. and Jury Chair for the CNU 2010 Charter Awards, will ORISE Fellow, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National bers of the initiative, overviewing ideas in design, regulation and implemen- COMBATING URBAN DESTRUCTION: HAVANA AND BOMBAY/MUMBAI / conclude CNU18 by honoring the best of the New Urbanism. The 2010 Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Centers for tation of sprawl retrofit to achieve healthier communities. The second part Room 208 Charter Awards ceremony acknowledges eleven works that fulfill the Disease Control and Prevention will evolve around an interactive review of the ground-breaking Cumberland Urban destruction can occur by neglect, abject poverty, financial distress promise of the Charter of the New Urbanism through outstanding Edge City retrofit to a green TOD (transit-oriented development) with local, and by the toxic import of American post-World War II planning. Havana, urbanism, often in contexts that cry out for repair and re-establishment of HARNESSING THE MARKET TO CREATE LIFELONG NEIGHBORHOODS / regional and federal implications. Initiative members, national experts and a Caribbean metropolis with a European influence, has been spared the resilient urban communities. Vince Graham will describe leading lessons and Grand Salon B project stake holders will discuss the design approach and recommend a damage of the global overdevelopment of the second half of the 19th Century. trends learned from this year’s award winners and frame how New Urbanism From active adult retirement communities to nursing homes, the seniors framework for implementation. Finally, we will have a conversation about the However, its harmonious juxtaposition of impressive buildings, is currently is reshaping and redeeming our cities and towns. As CNU 18 marks the 10th housing industry most often responds to aging as a series of specific, future of our Sprawl Retrofit Initiative and what we want to accomplish in the threatened by overdevelopment, sprawl and neglect. Bombay flourished in anniversary of our first awards program, we look forward to discussing the “needs-based” market segments requiring specialized building types and upcoming year in terms of design, policies or research. the 19th and early 20th centuries as the gateway to India’s riches through its impacts of applying new urbanist principles to the built environment. Prior to unique urban forms. This panel looks at how the expertise developed in Pecha Kucha Presenters: John Anderson, Principal, Anderson Kim / Steven mercantile port. Since Independence in 1947, the island city has been a the ceremony, outgoing CNU Board President and noted principal of Urban these specialized seniors’ communities can be redirected to better serve the Coyle, Owner, Town-Green / Paul Crabtree, President, Crabtree Group, Inc / magnet for migration making it the densest city in the world, with over Design Associates, Ray Gindroz will present a retrospective of his work, A life continuous life spans of residents in traditional neighborhoods. Thomas E. Low, AIA, LEED, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk 200 persons per acre. Learn how these two cities are facing twenty first in Urbanism 46 years in 20 minutes. S S

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R Principal & Founder, BluePond Wellness LLC Foundation / Emily Talen, PhD AICP, Professor, School of Geographical Hernández, President Cuban Chapter of C.E.U. and I.N.T.B.A.U., Architect Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology R DAY and Urban Planner DAY 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM ASSESSING NEIGHBORHOODS AT THE BLOCK LEVEL / Grand Salon A SATURDAY NIGHT RECEPTION / The Shed, Drawing from original and peer-reviewed research on the impact of the built 475 Bill Kennedy Way Southeast, Atlanta, GA 30316, environment on public health, the Florida Department of Health and www.theshedatglenwood.com University of Miami’s School of Architecture and Miller School of Medicine An Evening of Farm-to-Table Food, within the CNU Charter Award formed an interdisciplinary team to develop an accessible Walkability winning Glenwood Park Assessment tool. Describing the initial research and the online tool, the Please join your friends and colleagues in celebrating the conclusion of our panelists present practical design strategies that enhance public health. 18th Congress for the New Urbanism on Saturday evening, May 22, from Scott C. Brown, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology 7:30pm to 11:30pm at the CNU Charter Award winning development, and Public Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine / Glenwood Park. The evening will feature a menu of local food from The Moderator: Joanna Lombard, Professor, University of Miami Shed, including organic vegetables, goat cheese and additional local fare combined to create imaginative “sliders” and various side dishes. Along with THE NEXT URBANISM IS NOT NEW URBANISM / Grand Ballroom AB the mouth-watering array of food, your first beverage is also included with Join Andres Duany as he challenges new urbanists to look at the future your ticket. An Organic Yogurt “Sundae Bar” will cap off the evening. through the lens of landscape urbanism. What can we learn from the In addition to dining, participants will be treated to a taste of New Urbanism landscape urbanists’ aestheticized embrace of environmental issues? at night. The Seed and Feed Marching Abominables will lead a “march” and Their strategic positioning relative to the power bases of high culture, elite performance throughout the neighborhood, including stops at some of the education, and green design? great restaurants, parks, and homes that animate and illuminate Glenwood Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company / Matthew Park. Several New Urbanist homes will be open to welcome attendees to a Lambert, Director of Technology, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. / private, insider’s view of life in this great new neighborhood while several Representatives from Next Gen new urbanist troubadours will surprise us with their musical tributes to zoning reform, street widths, planning commissions and other wonky entertainments. Meet at 7:00PM at the Hotel Entrance for bus transportation to Glenwood Park.

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AARP Georgia Eco Systems, Inc Island Press Sustainable Cities Institute of Booth 15 Booth 2 Table Top 6 The Home Depot Foundation AARP has long played a key role in Eco Systems is a multidisciplinary, Island Press is a leading publisher Booths 27 & 28 supporting livable communities. professional service firm of books about the environment. The Home Depot Foundation focuses Locally, AARP has collaborated with specializing in civil and Our titles reflect the breadth and on supporting nonprofits that are the Atlanta Regional Commission environmental engineering planning immediacy of global environmental dedicated to helping families thrive to promote Lifelong Communities, and consulting services. problems and the range of by creating and preserving healthy, highlighted at our CNU18 exhibit. appropriate responses to them. affordable homes as the cornerstone EpsteinBeckerGreen of sustainable communities. Allison Ramsey Architects, Inc. Booth 19 PlaceMakers Booths 11 & 12 Please join us at the Booth 23 Town Planning and Urban Design Allison Ramsay Architects provides EpsteinBeckerGreen booth for more Planning for resilience in the new Collaborative services from single family homes information about our practices, economy? Sparking economic Booth 1 to town homes to town centers, Health Care and Life Sciences, Labor development with the form-based TPUDC is a boutique New design concepts to construction; and Employment, Litigation, Real SmartCode? Improving odds through Urbanist town planning and urban from the scale of the building to Estate and Business Law. stronger outreach and brand design firm specializing in the the scale of the neighborhood. communications? We’re design and implementation of We provide development Farmer D Organics PlaceMakers, and that’s what we do. projects across the United States. consultation, implementation, Booth 26 Visit us in Booth 23.. and planning services. Farmer D Design Studio provides Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh organic farm planning, design, and Sizemore Group, Cumberland & Associates BeltLine Partnership, Inc. implementation services for private Community Improvement District Booth 3 Table Top 1 and public developments, including and Gordon Burns Associates TSW is an Atlanta-based Non-profit organization committed farms, community gardens and Booth 29 planning, architecture, and to raising funds to support the agriculture based communities. landscape architecture firm. Some BeltLine; working with Notable projects; Serenbe, Virgin Streetscapes, Inc. of TSW’s award-winning projects in neighborhoods, businesses and Spa at Natirar and Hampton Island. Booth 32 the Atlanta region include Glenwood other groups to raise general Park, Woodstock Downtown, Vickery, awareness and support for Form-Based Codes Institute and Sustainable Atlanta and . the BeltLine. National Charrette Institute Booth 4 Booth 22 Sustainable Atlanta is a catalyst, Vinyl Siding Institute Centers for Disease Control and Form-Based Codes Institute and facilitator and voice of sustainable Booths 17 & 18 Prevention National Center for the National Charrette Institute progress in Atlanta. Its unique, Vinyl Siding Institute (VSI) is the Environmental Health / Agency are sister non-profit research and consensus-driven policy trade association for manufacturers for Toxic Substances and education organizations. model improves the health, of vinyl and other polymeric siding Disease Registry http://www.charretteinstitute.org, competitiveness and economic and suppliers to the industry. VSI will Booth 20 http://www.formbasedcodes.org/ vitality of Atlanta. showcase architectural styles that CDC’s National Center for can be achieved with vinyl siding. Environmental Health and the HDR, Inc. The Coca-Cola Company Agency for Toxic Substances and Booth 9 Live Positively - our platform Disease Registry scientifically HDR’s Community Planning & Urban for sustainability. consider all factors that affect the Design group focuses on creating Booth 5 & 6 health of people, including healthy community, expanding mobility, and Live Positively is our commitment community design. enhancing the natural environment. to make a positive difference in the Our goal is to create sustainable world by redesigning the way we DMB Redwood City Saltworks development solutions that optimize work and live so sustainability is Booth 24 quality of life for all users. part of everything we do. Together Redwood City Saltworks 50/50 we can make a difference. Through Balanced Plan. Learn about one of Historical Concepts - Architects, collaboration and partnership, Peter Calthorpe’s current projects in Planners & Place-Makers we can build solutions, create Redwood City, CA. 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