NPSG12-122

Smart Growth Performance Measurement

Speakers: Jonathan Sage-Martinson, Director, Central Corridor Funders Collaborative; Andrew Hume, AICP, Planner, Las Cruces Metropolitan Planning Organization; Doug Johnson, Senior Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission; Jeff Ang-Olson, Principal, ICF International; Kevin Ramsey, Ph.D., Policy Research Fellow, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA

This interactive session explores the benefits of implementing a system of performance measurement for evaluating progress towards desired community outcomes, such as reducing household transportation costs, increasing the number of affordable homes that are well served by transit, or preserving agricultural and natural resource lands. Panelists present short case studies that demonstrate how performance measures have been used to inform planning, policy, and investment decisions in a variety of rural, suburban, and urban communities.

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$10.00

$10.00

AGPA10-313

Scapegoating in Group Therapy: Integrating Girard’s Mimetic Theory & Agazarian’s Systems-Centered Approach

Speakers: Alexis Abernethy, Alvin Dueck, Lisa Danner Finlay, Scott Garrels, Christopher Waters

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$25.00

$25.00

NPSG12-252

Implementing Green Infrastructure: Creative Approaches to Reducing Regulatory and Financial Barriers in Rural and Urban Communities

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-223

Revitalization, Gentrification, and Equitable Development: Evaluating a Decade of EPA's Programs

Speakers: Mary Nelson, Founding President, Bethel New Life; Deeohn Ferris, JD, President, Sustainable Community Development Group; Ted Howard, Evergreen Coalition; Charlie Bartsch, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Administrator for Economic Development, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, U.S. EPA; Vernice Miller-Travis, Senior Associate, Skeo Solutions

Gentrification is often defined as the transformation of neighborhoods from low value to high value. This change has the potential to cause displacement of long-time residents and businesses because of higher rents, mortgages, and property taxes. This interactive session provides an overview of EPA's efforts to promote equitable development, engages the audience, and facilitates a candid discussion about the challenges and proposed solutions at the local level for advancing truly equitable development.

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-209

Leveraging Smart Growth Brand to Build a Political Base and Vice Versa

Speakers: Elaine Clegg, Councilmember, City of Boise, ID; Special Projects Manager, Idaho Smart Growth; Tommy Wells, Councilmember, District of Columbia; Brad Lander, Councilmember, City of Brooklyn, NY; John Engen, Mayor, City of Missoula, MT; Mick Cornett, Mayor, City of Oklahoma City, OK; Mark Mallory, Mayor, City of Cincinnati, OH

It is the politician’s job to present a compelling vision while moving forward effective policies, and many leaders have realized the power of the smart growth brand, which espouses increasing transportation and affordable housing choices near jobs, shops and schools. Hear from elected leaders who are leveraging smart growth principles to inspire their constituents and reinforce their base of support as they strive to strengthen their municipalities.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-329

Building Sustainable Rural Communities with Regional Transportation Systems

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-124

Just How Smart is Our Growth? Getting Ready for a Maturing America

Speakers: Rebecca Hunter, MEd, Institute on Aging and CDC-Healthy Aging Research Network, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chris Kochtitzky, MSP, Associate Director for Program Development, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Mary A. Leary, PhD, Senior Director, Easter Seals Project ACTION, National Center on Senior Transportation & Other Transportation Initiatives; Joan M. Twiss, MA, Executive Director, Center for Civic Partnerships

The startling new n4a report, The Maturing of America, concludes that many communities are unprepared for their quickly aging populations, with 'no where near the level of progress that has to be made to ensure that communities are livable for people of all ages'. This session provides practical, evidence-based strategies for integrated planning and implementation consistent with Smart Growth, but also specifically responsive to an aging population diverse in ethnicity, resources, health and functional status.

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-207

Advancing Equity through Transit Corridor Planning

Speakers: Dean Katerndahl, Director, Government Innovations Forum, Mid American Regional Council; Damon Daniel, Regional Organizing Director, Communities Creating Opportunity, Kansas City, MO; Tony To, Executive Director, HomeSight; Heidi Hall, Equity Network Manager, Impact Capital

This interactive panel highlights two regional models to advance social equity from Puget Sound and Kansas City, leveraging a HUD Sustainable Communities grant. Learn about the process and lessons learned establishing a regional equity network and how such coalitions are promoting social equity through transit corridor planning. Diverse community partners bring their institutional strengths to ensure the participation and governance of communities of color.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

AGPA10-308

Affect in Groups: A View Through Different Lenses

Speakers: Elliot Zeisel, Stewart Aledort, Sara Emerson, Philip Flores

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$25.00

$25.00

NPSG12-106

People, Place & Planning: Engaging Residents & Using Data in Revitalization and Evaluation

Speakers: Crystal Dundas, Vice President, Communications and Program Officer; Wells Fargo Regional Foundation; Lois Greco, Senior Vice President, Evaluations; Wells Fargo Regional Foundation; Patrick Morrissy, Executive Director, Housing and Neighborhood Development Services; Eileen Flanagan, Chief Innovator, Community Development Consulting

How can you create and sustain long-term neighborhood change that engages and energizes current residents, leverages the assets and market momentum of a place, and assesses if you've accomplished what you've set out to do? Experience a participatory neighborhood planning process through the eyes of a stakeholder; hear first-hand how one New Jersey community is revitalizing based upon its superb transit access, location, artistic residents and industrial heritage; and learn about tools like Success Measures and PolicyMap that are available to support and assess the impact of these smart-growth activities. The session focuses on a participatory framework towards neighborhood revitalization developed and refined by the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, and currently subscribed to in more than 40 neighborhoods in eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-222

Using Health As a Messaging Tool

Speakers: Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government Commission; Richard J. Jackson, MD MPH, Professor/Chair, Environmental Health Sciences; Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Urban Planning, UCLA

The health message can be particularly potent as a messaging tool for supporting everything from Smart Growth measures to state legislation related to Global Warming. The Lung Association is widely credited for stopping the passage of an initiative to repeal California's global warming law. The California's Medical Association encourages their physician-members to advocate for Smart Growth and it is beginning to bear fruit. This session, led by Dr. Richard Jackson, highlights the messages that have worked and explores how the medical profession might go even further to encourage land use changes that create healthy communities.

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-170

Plenary: Smart Growth for Economic Recovery

Speakers: Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9; Mary D. Nichols, Chairperson, California Air Resources Board; Mick Cornett, Mayor, City of Oklahoma City, OK

This plenary articulates the important role that the federal government is playing to support sustainable communities across the country — communities that will become more economically resilient in the future. It will also feature how leaders at the state and local levels have implemented smart growth approaches as part of a solution to recover from the economic crisis, move towards fiscal health, and become more economically resilient and vibrant along the way.

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-249

Advancing Opportunities for Rural Economic Development

MP3

$20.00

$20.00

NPSG12-164

A New Heart for Houston

Speakers: Robert D. Yaro, Executive Director, Regional Plan Association; Jane Thompson, Principal, Thompson Design Group; Patap Talwar, Principal, Thompson Design Group; Anne Olson, Director, Buffalo Bayou Partnership; Harry L. Dodson, Principal, Dodson Associates

Realizing the need to improve the city's quality of life, Houston's leaders decided to restore the polluted and neglected river running through the center of the city. The Buffalo Bayou Partnership, a non-profit advocacy group, was formed to implement the river restoration project. The Partnership led a wide range of citizens, advocacy groups and neighborhood representatives to develop a plan for the river's revival and its incorporation with the surrounding urban fabric. As a result, a new regional park—one of the largest landscape reclamation projects in the country—is being created as the new heart of America's 4th largest city.

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-251

Emerging Practices and Policies in Transit-oriented Development

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

AGPA10-203

Use of Focal Conflict Theory in a Role Training Group

Speakers: Cecelia Winkelman

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-200

Plenary: Places for People: How Transportation Choices, Infill Development and Good City Design Can Reshape our Communities

Speakers: Shelley Poticha, Director, Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, U.S. HUD; Janet Attarian, Project Director, Streetscape and Sustainable Design Program; Sustainability Coordinator, Chicago Department of Transportation; Meea Kang, President, Domus Development, LLC; President, California Infill Builders Association

The plenary highlights the important role that federal investments in housing and transportation choices can play in supporting sustainable communities across the country. It also features examples from Chicago to California, where local leaders and developers have increased transportation choices, created a more pedestrian-focused environment, and made infill development a reality — bringing affordable housing and essential services closer together for the people who live there, especially those most in need.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-224

Strategies for Saving the Small Town Grocery Store

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

AGPA10-205

Infusing Group Therapy Programs in University Counseling Centers with Muticulturalism: Challenges & Triumphs

Speakers: Scott Cypers, Hue-Sun Ahn, Kristen Davis-John, Pejcharat Harvey

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-322

Smart Growth, Immigrant Integration and Sustainable Development

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

Subtotal

$310.00