Call for papers and invitation to exhibit

The 47th International Making Cities Livable Conference
Portland, OR,
May 10 - 13, 2009

will focus on

TRUE URBANISM: CITIES FOR HEALTH & WELL-BEING

and will include a special EXHIBIT and emphasis on

SUCCESSFUL URBAN PLAZAS & NATURE SPACES

TOPICS FOR PAPERS:

Health and the built environment
Planning, urban design & architecture for physical & social health
Public places for social life & civic engagement
Nature in the urban environment
Importance of contact with nature for health & well-being
Active living & the walkable, bikeable city
Planning pedestrian & bike networks
New achievements in urban transit
Transit oriented development
Land use principles for the healthy city
Beautiful places & well-being
Psychological effects of the built environment
Urban housing to integrate diversity
Mixed use urban fabric & infill
Urban villages / Suburban towns
Redesigning suburban malls as village/town centers
Teaching health & planning
Health effects of sprawl
Teenagers, social development & the community spaces
Influence of social life on health
Community festivals & social well-being
Achieving LEED Gold
Green buildings, healthy buildings
LEED Neighborhood Development
Teaching urban sustainability
Community participation
Regional planning for healthy cities
Legal tools for protecting public health through planning & land use
Traditional town planning
Regional architecture & identity
Historical models
What can we learn from Europe?

Call for papers

Papers: Those wishing to present papers on topics listed above should send a 250 word abstract for consideration to the Program Committee Chair, Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard

before October 15, 2008

Paper abstracts must be prepared for blind peer review (as e-mail attachments). Cover e-mail should state title of paper, name of author, affiliation and full contact information. Notification will be sent within 4 weeks of submission. Final papers will be due March 15, 2009. Accepted papers must be presented in person at the conference and will be published in the digital conference proceedings.

INVITATION TO EXHIBIT:
Successful Urban Plazas & Nature Spaces

Urban designers, landscape architects, architects, planners, developers and cities are invited to submit proposals for an exhibit of successful urban plazas and nature spaces.

Two categories of public places are eligible:

1) New or restored URBAN PLAZAS that bring the community together and foster social life and civic engagement (plazas, town squares, marketplaces, village greens, etc.); and

2) New or restored outdoor NATURE SPACES that foster contact with nature on an everyday basis (urban parks, nature play areas, community gardens, nature study areas, etc.)

Selected projects will be exhibited at the conference. Projects in design or construction phase (eligible for inclusion in the Exhibit) must be real projects commissioned with the intention to build. Completed projects (eligible for inclusion in the Exhibit, AND the Awards Program) must already exist and be in use, having been completed or restored within the last ten years.

AWARDS will be made in the following categories:

New urban plazas
Restored urban plazas
New nature spaces
Restored nature spaces
Network of new/restored nature spaces

Invitation to exhibit

Those interested in exhibiting projects and entering them for the Awards program please review
Exhibit Guidelines & Application form.

Deadline for submission of application & electronic exhibit is
November 15, 2008.

Program Committee

The Program Committee includes:
Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Regierungspräsident (Governor), South Baden; Edoardo Salzano, Dean, School of Urban Planning, Venice University; Tom Martineau, Prof. of Architecture, Florida A&M University; Ferd Johns, Prof. of Architecture, Montana State University; Borzou Rahimi, Construction Supervisor, CRA/LA, Los Angeles; Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard, Director, IMCL Conferences.