26th International

Making Cities Livable Conference

Charleston, South Carolina

February 13-17, 2000

Plenary and Panel Sessions

City & Region in the 21st Century:

Priorities for the Ecological City & Region

Charleston in the 21st Century

Identity, Urbanity, Community: Social Sustainability

Case Study: Santa Fe

Making Cities Livable For Children:

Cities for the Well-Being of Children

Augsburg, the City of Children & Family

Including Children in City Planning: Case Studies

Children’s Urban Form Preferences

Compact Land Use

New Possibilities for Sustainability

Balanced Transportation Planning for the 21st Century:

Balanced Transportation Policy

Greenway Transit: Fort Pierce Case Study

Ecological Train Station: a Focal Point

Charlotte Trolley Vision Plan

Urban Fabric:

Faces on the Street

The Shop/House: Building Block of a Sustainable City

Visions of the City:

Calvino’s Millennium – A Visual Essay Accompanied by Words

A Tale of Two Towns: From Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, to Kingman, Kansas

Electronic Media, The City & Youth Violence

The Historic City in the 21st Century:

Heritage & Cultural Tourism – An Engine for Sustainable Economic Development

Heritage & Development: Implications for the Planning & Management of Historic Cities

Improving Public Spaces:

Investing in the Downtown Public Environment. Lakeland, Florida’s Experience

Asheville’s Heritage Trails

Recreating the Urban Fabric:

Rebuilding Neighborhood Scale. Commercial Nodes In the Inner City

Teaching Urbanism in the Era Of Sprawl

Reshaping Communities from a Regional Planning Perspective

Controlling Sprawl:

Greer – A Case Study in the Power of Partnering

Why Cities Need Squares:

The Forgotten Places in Our Cities: Do We Still Need Squares?

Lovable People Places in Asia

Ten Principles for Designing Squares

Creating Squares in the 21st Century

Community Festivals:

Building Community Through Celebration

Cathedral Village Arts Festival

Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto and Moja Festivals

Functions of Community Festivals

Farmers Markets:

Farmers Markets versus E-commerce.

Scales of the Farmers Market. Unifying City & Region

Creating a Farmers Market

Housing for the Community:

Role of Housing Authority Architect as Facilitator in Community Projects

From Apartment Block to Townhouses, Camden, NJ

The City & the Waterfront:

Landmark American Bridges of the 21st Century

Three Waterfront Projects in Mexico: Design Studios at the Service of Community

Charleston: City & Region in the 21st Century:

Achieving Balance through Strategic Growth: the Charleston Downtown Plan

Livability in the Lowcountry

Tourism and the Historic City

Speakers

Kathryn Clarke Albright, Professor, College of Architecture & Urban Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

Sergio Arzac, MLA, Architect, Department of Architecture, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA

Keith R. Besserud, AIA, Marshall Clarke Architects, Greenville, SC, USA.

Mark C. Childs, Assistant Professor, Architecture & Planning, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

Wolfgang Christ, Professor, Fakultät Architektur, Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Entwerfen und Städtebau, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Weimar, GERMANY.

Fred Clipsham, Councillor, Ward 3, City of Regina, Regina, SK, CANADA

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard Ph.D.(Arch.), Director, International Making Cities Livable Council, Carmel, CA, USA. Conference Organizer

Richard Dagenhart, Assoc. Professor, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Ronald W. Daniel, Assoc. Provost, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Donna Dunay, Professor, College of Architecture & Urban Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

James H. Edwards, Executive Director, Lakeland Downtown Development Authority, Lakeland, FL, USA.

Andrea A. Gabor, MCIP, RPP, Principal, Urban Strategies Inc., Toronto, ON, CANADA

Thomas F. Gustafson, PA, Attorney, Gustafson & Roderman, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

Dietmar Hahlweg, Dr., Mayor, (Oberbürgermeister a.D.), City of Erlangen, Germany

Dan Hatley, Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments, North Charleston, SC, USA.

Chris Jarrett, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Elizabeth Johnson, Senior Fellow, John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy, Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, USA

June D. Komisar, AIA, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Larry E. Kotseff, MCIP, RPP, Commissioner of Planning & Culture, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Kitchener, ON, CANADA.

William C. Kueffer, AIA, ASLA, Architect. Former Director of Planning & Land Use, City of Santa Fe, NM, USA

Heidrun Kunert-Schroth, Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik, Berlin, GERMANY.

Henry L. Lennard, Ph.D., Chairman, Advisory Board, International Making Cities Livable Conferences, Carmel, CA, USA. Formerly Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

Jeffrey Levine, Project Development Manager, Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority, Richmond, VA, USA.

Karin Marks, City Councillor, City of Westmount, QC, CANADA

Ronald E. Mitchum, Executive Director, Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments, North Charleston, SC, USA.

Roberta Moncalero, Stadtplanungsamt Augsburg, Augsburg, GERMANY

Robert M. Morrow, Mayor, City of Hamilton, ON, CANADA.

Ellen Moryl, Director, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA.

Cleveland Murphy, AIA, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA

Patrick J. Quinn, FAIA, FRSA, FAAR, Institute Professor Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, Troy, NY, USA. Former President, Assoc. of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

Shishir R. Raval, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor, City of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA

Miguel Rosales, President, Rosales Gottemoeller & Assoc., Boston, MA, USA.

David H. Sachs, AIA, Assoc. Professor, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.

Edoardo Salzano, Dean, School of Urban Planning, University of Venice, Venice. Formerly, Deputy Mayor, City of Venice, ITALY

Gretchen Schneider, College of Architecture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

Klaus Semsroth, Univ. Prof. Dr., Dean, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, AUSTRIA

Terry Shook, President, Shook Design Group Inc., Charlotte, NC, USA.

Sylvia Sutherland, Mayor, City of Peterborough, ON, CANADA

Hannes Tank, Dr., Abteilung Wirtschaftspolitik, Forschungsinstitut der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, GERMANY

Jackson C. Tuttle, City Manager, City of Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA, USA

Robert Walsh, President, Charlotte Center City, Charlotte, NC, USA

Hojun Welker, Urban Trail & Cityscape Coordinator, Public Works Department, City of Asheville, Asheville, NC, USA

Christina Weylie, Councillor, Chair, Planning & Culture Committee, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Kitchener, ON, CANADA

Alycen Whiddon, RLA, AICP, Assistant Director, Department of Planning, Development, & Neighborhood Conservation, City of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Special Events

Welcome Reception, Gibbes Museum of Art

The Square as a Work of Art (film)

Luncheon honoring Award Recipients

Historic Charleston Mansions Tour

Discussion Dinner

Farewell Luncheon