will focus on
• The built environment & health
• New designs for mixed-use urban fabric
• To zone or not to zone - the best method for achieving mixed-use?
• Planning for commuting by foot & bike
• Sustainable urban design
• Green buildings, healthy buildings
• New achievements in urban transit
• Integrating land use & public transit
• Transit-based neighborhood development
• The walkable “City of Short Distances”
• Growth management: overcoming obstacles
• Tools for controlling big box retail
• Individual development rights vs. the common good
• Redesigning suburban malls as neighborhood centers
• Reshaping suburbs into mixed-use urban villages
• Community participation in architecture and planning
• Restoring historic mixed-use
• Legal tools for protecting public health: implications
for urban planning
• Classical architecture yesterday and today
• Traditional town planning
• Teaching connections between urban planning &
health
• Connections between social life, community & health
• Designing town squares for social life
• Child- & family-friendly urban planning
• Optimal urban environments for social development
• Integrating social diversity through urban planning
• Accessibility rights: children & the elderly
• Building community & civic engagement through festivity.
Architects, planners, developers and cities are invited to submit proposals for an exhibit of mixed-use urban fabric – projects already constructed, or in design. Designs must be 3 - 6 stories, mixed-use including residential to qualify.
To be selected for exhibit and award the proposal must clearly demonstrate how the design is an integral part of the evolving fabric of the urban landscape, and show that it contains street level uses which will add appropriate vitality, scale, utility and interest to the daily life of the inhabitants of the walkable city.
Selected projects will be exhibited at the conference, where awards will be made for outstanding projects.
Awards will be made in the following categories:
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 31st.
Paper abstracts must be prepared for blind peer review (as email attachments). Cover letter or email should identify the author. Notification will be sent within 4 weeks of submission. Final papers will be due April 15th. Accepted papers must be presented in person at the conference and will be published in the digital conference proceedings.
Exhibits: Those interested in exhibiting mixed-use projects
please review Exhibit Guidelines.
Deadline for submission of application & electronic
exhibit is
February 1, 2008.
The Program Committee includes:
Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Regierungspräsident (Governor),
South Baden; Edoardo Salzano, Dean, School of Urban Planning,
Venice University; Michael Lykoudis, Dean, School of Architecture,
University of Notre Dame; Tom Martineau, Prof. of Architecture,
Florida A&M University; Ferd Johns, Prof. of Architecture,
Montana State University; Borzou Rahimi, Construction Specialist,
CRA/LA, Los Angeles; Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard, Director,
IMCL Conferences.