20th Conference in Santa Fe

20th International Making Cities Livable Conference on

COMBATTING URBAN SPRAWL
&
THE GOOD CITY & THE PUBLIC REALM

Santa Fe, New Mexico
April 15 - 19, 1997

The City of Santa Fe extends a warm welcome to participants of the 20th International Making Cities Livable Conference to be held in Santa Fe, April 15-19, 1997.

As Mayor of this beautiful city, I am proud that Santa Fe has been selected as host city for this significant international conference. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the leading city officials, urban designers, planners, and community leaders from around the world, who will share their vision and experience on how to make effective and livable cities.

There will also be occasions for you to enjoy the historic community of Santa Fe, and our rich cultural heritage. The City of Santa Fe has a unique diversity of people, ideals, values and ways of life. I have fought to maintain the character and identity of this, one of the most beautiful cities on the American continent. That means that we must honor the wisdom and values of the people who created Santa Fe, their distinct traditions and life styles, and respect the beauty of its natural landscape.

I want to provide the opportunity for all who live here to share in Santa Fe’s natural and cultural legacy, and to diminish the growing chasm between those who have much, and those who have little, so that all inhabitants become citizens who take responsibility for each other.

I hope that the presence of this conference and its participants will enhance our vision of the “greater good”, and especially focus our attention on our most valuable resources – our children and our youth, the future of our cities.

Debbie Jaramillo
Mayor, City of Santa Fe

Plenary and Panel Sessions

• The Good City

The Good City & the Public Realm

• The Design of Public Places
• In the Public Realm
• Creating Public Places for Community Life
• Neighborhood Centers for Santa FE
• New Designs for Public Places
• Design of a Major Public Open Space in San Francisco
• The New Heart of the City Berlin
• Challenges of Albuquerque’s Civic Plaza
• Santa Fe Railyards Project
• The Public Realm Recovery Project
• Public and Processional Spaces in Bakhtipur and Katmandu
• Urban Places in Europe, especially in Austria
• The Loss of Public Space in Downtown Areas
• Types of Plazas in Mexico City: The Plaza Mayor and Other Plazas

Strategies for Combatting Sprawl

• A Strategy for Containing Urban Sprawl
• The Problem of Gated Compounds
• German Strategies in Controlling Urban Sprawl
• Counteracting Sprawl through Infill Development
• Workshop: Containing Urban Sprawl

Transit Based Development

• Public Transit: An Esssential Component in Livable “New Urbanist” Communities?
• The Horizontal Skyscraper

New Urban Neighborhoods

• Principles for the Design of New Urban Neighborhoods
• New Urban Neighborhoods in Freiburg, Germany: Rieselfeld and Vauban
• Applying Traditional Urban Design Principles in a High Rise, High Density Urban Context - Vancouver, BC.
• Santa Fe’s New Urban Neighborhoods
• In Search of Modern Utopias
• Workshop: New Urban Neighborhoods - The Tierra Contenta Example
• Sustainable Community Planning at High Desert, in Albuquerque, NM

Sustainable Urban Development

• Making Development Sustainable
• Sustainable Neighborhoods and the Recovery of Inner City Communities
• Ecocity Whyalla, South Australia. From Steel Town to Solar City
• Cascade: Creating Sustainable Guidelines for an Urban Community

Ecological Issues

• Ecological Urban Design
• Ecological Transportation Planning
• The Sustainable City

The Good City for Children & Youth

• Making Santa Fe a Good City for Children and Youth
• The Social World as Teacher
• Autonomy, Mobility and Accessibility
• The Accessible City
• The Accessible City of Washington D.C.
• Children in the City

Creating the Great American City

• An Introduction to the Search for Great American Public Places
• Connecting with the Region
• Lessons from the Search for Great American Public Places
• Containing Urban Sprawl
• Assembling a Green Belt Around Erlangen
• The Vision Process
• Lessons from the Search for Great American Public Places
• History of the Tierra Contenta Project
• A Visual Overview
• New Urbanism from Plan to Reality

Teaching Models

• Midblock Design for Salt Lake City
• The Urban Design Studio, Resource for the City

From Architecture to Urban Planning

• Tradition and Modern Culture
• Applying the Principles of New Urbanism to Higher Density Inner-City Areas
• Neighborhood Friendly High Density Residential Infill Development

City Case Studies

• Downtown Fort Worth
• Searching for the Lost Center: Most, Czech Republic
• The Soul of Pueblo

Preservation & Revitalization

• Contributing to Pittsburgh’s Livability: Historic Preservation, Commercial Development and Testing Ideas

Neighborhood Programs

• San Diego’s Livable Neighborhoods Initiatives
• Heritage Village, Toledo

Urban Parks

• The Aftermath of Catastrophe as an Opportunity for a Better and Meaningful Urban Environment
• The 21st Century Park: Culture/Nature Interface
• Current Paradigms for the 21st Century Metropolitan Park
• Environmental Land Acquisition Enhances Urban Life
• Antilivability: The Mistakes of New Delhi and Chandigargh

Waterfronts

• On the Waterfront - City of Hamilton
• The Regeneration of an Urban Waterfront, Buffalo

Visualizing the City

• Visualizing an Urban Future
• Developing the Feelings Mapping Technique Using Multiple Attributes Analysis

Santa Fe Workshops

• Cultural Diversity and Community
• Revisioning Cerrillos Road
• The Santa Fe Railyards Project
• Celebrating Life in the City: Community Festivals, Farmer’s Markets, and other Social Events

Growth & Change in Latin American Cities

• The Accommodation of Growth in Quito, Ecuador
• An Analysis of the Mexicali Project
• Documentary Video on Curitiba, Brazil

Architectural Values & City Identity

• The City as a Reflection of Social and Political Statements
• City Identity and Unsympathetic Urban Design
• A Lefebvrian Critique of Delhi
• The Lost Essence of the Built Environment

Speakers

• John Allison, Senior Lecturer, School of Town and Country Planning, University of the West of England, Brisot, ENGLAND, UK.
• Larry B. Beasley, Director of Central Area Planning, Community Services Group, City of Vancouver, BC, CANADA.
• Ivana Benda, European Design Studio, Toronto, ON, CANADA.
• George E. Bowen, Professor, School of Planning, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
• Ivan Cartes, School of Architecture, Department of Architecture and Planning, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, ENGLAND, UK.
• Nancy Christman, Intergovernmental Coordinator, Department of Planning & Land Acquisition, St. John’s River Water Management District, Orlando, FL, USA.
• Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard Ph.D.(Arch.), Director, International Making Cities Livable Council, Carmel, CA, USA. Conference Organizer.
• Vera Danyluk, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Montreal Urban Community, Montreal, CANADA.
• Paul F. Downton, BSc (Hons) Barch ARAIA, Architect, Urban Ecologist, Ecopolis P/L, Centre for Urban Ecology, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA.
• Boris Dramov, President, ROMA, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Derek Drummond, MacDonald Professor, Architecture Department, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA.
• Bruno B. Freschi, O.C., Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
• Peter Gabor, Gabor and Popper Architects, Inc., Toronto, ON, CANADA.
• The Hon. Dietmar Hahlweg, Dr., Mayor, City of Erlangen, GERMANY.
• John Henry, Architect, AIA, Orlando, FL, USA.
• The Honorable Debbie Jaramillo, Mayor, City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
• Peter Katz, Design & Marketing Consultant, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Eiji Keyemura, Dr. of Eng., Instructor, School of Architecture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN.
• William C. Kueffer, Director of Planning and Land Use Department, City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
• Henry L. Lennard, Ph.D., Conference Organizer, Chairman, Advisory Board, IMCL Council, Carmel, CA, USA. Professor of Medical Sociology in Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Chris B. Leinberger, Chairman, Metropolitan Redevelopment Commission, Managing Partner, Robert Charles Lesser Co., Santa Fe, NM, USA.
• Gianni Longo, President, Urban Initiatives, New York, NY, USA.
• Michael Lykoudis, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
• Donald MacDonald, FAIA, Architect, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Evelyn W. Menne, Executive Director, Decatur Downtown Development Authority, Decatur, GA, USA.
• Emil R. Moncivais, Director of Planning, City of Fort Worth, TX, USA.
• Lucie K. Morisset, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Tourism, University of Quebec at Montreal, Researcher, CELAT, University of Laval, Quebec, QC, CANADA.
• Keith Morrow, Edward D. Stone & Assoc. (EDSA), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
• The Honorable Robert M. Morrow, Mayor, City of Hamilton, ON, CANADA.
• Paul Muller AIA, Muller/Triantafillou Associated Design, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• Luc Noppen, Ph.D., Professor, School of Architecture, CELAT, Laval University, Quebec, QC, CANADA.
• Gertrudis Peters, Stadtplanung und Architektur, Berlin, GERMANY
• David O. Rafter, Ph.D., AICP, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Minnesota and Mankato State University, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• Jürgen Rauch, Dr. Ing, Architect, Munich, GERMANY.
• Stefan Resch, Director, City Planning Department, City of Neubrandenburg, GERMANY.
• Ana Laura Ruesjas, M.Arch., Tucuman, ARGENTINA.
• Thomas H. Selland, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Architecture, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
• Klaus Semsroth, Prof. Dr., Technical University of Vienna, Department of Urban Planning, Vienna, AUSTRIA.
• Keith D. Simon, Principal, Design Workshop Inc., Albuquerque, NM, USA.
• Darius Sollohub, Associate Director, Infrastructure Planning Program, School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.
• James A. Throgmorton, Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Urban and Regional Planning, Iowa City, IA, USA.
• Menelaos Triantafillou, ASLA, AICP, Muller/Triantafillou Assocated Design, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Dr., Erster Bürgermeister, Stadt Freiburg, GERMANY.
• Mark C. Walker, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas Inc., New York, NY, USA.
• Daniel Winterbottom, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• Arthur P. Ziegler Jr., President, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA.

Special Events

• Tours of Santa Fe
• Awards Luncheon - Hotel La Fonda Ballroom
• Reception - Courtyard, Museum of Fine Arts