NPSG13-241

Getting to Yes in a New Era of Extremes: Successful Tools from the Road

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-102

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

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

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

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-302

Planning and Implementing Smart Growth in Native Communities

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-229

What the Frack? How Communities Are Facing the Challenges and Opportunities of Shale Development

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

NPSG13-138

Smart Growth Toolbox Training Session

Speakers: Maren Outwater, Senior Director, Resource Systems Group; Fred Bowers, Community Planner, Federal Highway Administration; Gordon Garry, Director of Research and Analysis, Sacramento Area Council of Governments; Jo Allen Gause, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Science; Robert Cervero, Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley; Jeremy Raw, Community Planner, Federal Highway Administration; Guy Rousseau, Modeling Manager, Atlanta Regional Commission; Colin Smith, Senior Consultant, Resource Systems Group. Moderator: John Thomas, Director of Community Assistance and Research, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA

(3.5 hour session) The impact of various smart growth strategies on the transportation system and the dynamics of how these strategies may influence other strategies are not easily understood. Current tools to address this need are either quite detailed and complex (parcel-level, integrated land use and travel models) or quite simple (application of elasticities for specific strategies). The Smart Growth Area Planning (SmartGAP) is a strategic planning tool that simulates individual travel behavior in response to smart growth strategies at a regional scale. The session is conducted in two parts: an overview of scenario planning and presentations on smart growth area planning tools and resources, and three breakout groups to discuss case studies for Atlanta, Maryland and Olympia. Learn how to develop the data needed by the tools, how to develop smart growth strategies for testing, and how to interpret the results for planning purposes.

Audio CDs: 3

Audio CD

$36.00

$36.00

NPSG13-101

Sustainability and Net Zero Energy Studies with DoD Clients

Speakers: David Mechtly, Project Manager, now with HDR, Inc.; Mark Imel, Energy Services Technical Director, HDR, Inc. Moderator: Damian Kelly, Technical Director and Project Manager, HDR, Inc.

The federal government has, through a series of public laws, executive orders and presidential memorandums, set out an ambitious mandated program to address energy/water/waste/greenhouse gas reduction, a reduced dependence on fossil fuel, and increased usage in alternative fuels for federal agencies. The panelists from the Defense Distribution Center-Susquehanna and HDR share their experiences in accomplishing the mandates while integrating sustainability and net-zero energy planning at a Defense Logistics Agency installation over the past year. Sustainability topics discussed include sustainability components, component support activities, and a capital investment strategy and implementation plan. Net Zero Energy topics include energy reduction measures, “right-sizing” the GSA fleet using combinatorial optimization, recommending grid/islanded-connected micro-grid architecture/control, providing the resulting renewable energy solution, discussing feasible funding mechanisms, and incorporating all aspects of Net Zero into an implementation plan.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-225

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

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-300

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

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

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-112

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

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

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

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-304

Food Access Equity: From Policy to Action

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-306

Smart Growth Citizenship: How Grassroots Action is Transforming Communities

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-101

Intercity Passenger Rail in America: Creating Regional Centers

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

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

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG13-305

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

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG13-156

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

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

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

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

Subtotal

$316.00