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Sunday, October 17

Dock Street Theater
1.00 - 6.00	Registration Exhibit program: Successful Designs & Programs for Healthy, Child-Friendly Communities
3.00 - 5.30	*Walking Tours of Charleston*
6.00 - 7.00	*Welcome Reception*

Monday, October 18

Dock Street Theater
Morning	WELCOME & PLENARY SESSIONS The Challenge Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Planning Healthy & Child-Friendly Communities in Germany Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Freiburg, GERMANY Strategies for Healthy, Child-Friendly Cities Charles Royer, Seattle, WA Youth & Their Built Environment Clifford M. Johnson, Washington DC Healthy, Child-Friendly Communities Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Charleston, SC
Gibbes Art Museum
Lunch	*Conference Luncheon*
Concurrent Sessions
Dock Street Theater
Afternoon	PLANNING FOR HEALTHY, INDEPENDENT MOBILITY Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Greenspace & Health: the Evidence Dee Merriam, Atlanta, GA Health & Public Infrastructure David Green, Atlanta, GA Child Streets Sam Bass Warner, Cambridge, MA Eran Ben-Joseph, Cambridge, MA BALANCED TRANSPORTATION & LIVABLE STREETS Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Downtown in Motion's Streets for Everyone! – Integrating Pedestrians, Bicyclists, & Public Transit in Downtown Salt Lake City Rick Phillips, Concord, CA Sculpting Public Place from Car Space Randy Wade, New York, NY
Council Chambers
Afternoon	SUSTAINABLE NATURE & THE SUSTAINABLE CITY Moderator: Tom Martineau, Tallahassee, FL Green Building, Green Neighborhoods. A Subtropical Urban Design Handbook for Planners Rosemary Kennedy, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA Biophilic Solutions through Community Planning Darren Ottaway, Grande Cache, AB, CANADA John Buchko, Edmonton, AB, CANADA "Killing Me Softly": A Critical Rethinking of Municipal Natural Area Management Mary-Ellen Tyler, Calgary, AB, CANADA HOLISTIC STRATEGIES FOR NATURE IN THE CITY Moderator: Tom Martineau, Tallahassee, FL Planning Nature in Underserved Urban Communities: Urban Agriculture in Detroit Joongsub Kim, Birmingham, MI Town & Country: Speculations on a Hybrid Ursula Emery McClure, Lafayette, LA Michael A. McClure, Lafayette, LA
Historic Courthouse
Afternoon	HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: YOUTH PERSPECTIVES Moderator: Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM Engaging San Diego Youth to Assess Neighborhoods & Advocate for Policy/Environmental Change Cheryl Moder, San Diego, CA You Want Us to do What, Where? Investing in Youth Health through the Built Environment Patricia Manuel, Halifax, NS, CANADA Youth Independent Mobility & Access to Public Space Meghan Cope, Burlington, VT CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTICIPATE IN PLANNING Moderator: Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM Make Trax: Youth Leaders for Walkable Communities Lee Candance Kokinakis, Lansing, MI Legalizing the Child's Right to Participate in Planning Processes in the US Dawn Jourdan, Gainesville, FL
Memminger Auditorium
Afternoon	LAND USE PLANNING & CHILDHOOD OBESITY: FROM RESEARCH TO PREVENTION Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA Urban Landscape Pattern & Childhood Obesity Jun-Hyun Kim, San Luis Obispo, CA Neighborhood Influences on the Physical Activity of Low-income, African American Children: A Qualitative Perspective Douglas Williams, Champaign IL Systems, Policies and Environments for Childhood Obesity Prevention Laura K. Brennan, St. Louis, MO REDEVELOPMENT OF STRESSED TOWNS & BROWNFIELD SITES Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA Waterfront Development & Revitalization in a Small Town Hurricane-Prone Louisiana Thomas C. Sammons, Lafayette, LA Expanding the Architect's Scope: Teaching Students the Complexity of Contemporary Urban Sites Wendy Redfield, Raleigh, NC

Tuesday, October 19

Dock Street Theater
Morning	WHAT DO CHILDREN NEED FROM COMMUNITY & NATURE? Embedding Our Children in Webs of Sustained Adult Relationships Peter Benson, Minneapolis, MN Why Children Need Nature Stephen R. Kellert, New Haven, CT Designing for Play in Nature Robin C. Moore, Raleigh, NC PLANNING NEIGHBORHOODS WITH ACCESS TO NATURE & COMMUNITY Designing Child-Friendly Communities Perry Bigelow, Aurora, IL Conservation Design as a Tool for Building Community-Wide Open Space Networks Randall Arendt, Narragansett, RI Noisette: Crafting a Walkable New American City John L. Knott, Jr., N. Charleston, SC
Concurrent Sessions
Dock Street Theater
Afternoon	CHARLESTON WORKSHOP Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Designing an urban schoolyard/public park at Gaillard Center Tim Keane, Charleston, SC SCHOOL & COMMUNITY: BRINGING THEM CLOSER Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Integrating Primary & Secondary Education with Community Life: Designing Cities of Learning Roy Strickland, Ann Arbor, MI Reimagining Urban Form & Educational Reform Kathleen M. Galvin, Charlottesville, VA Nature in the Urban Environment: Sustainable Place-Based Educational Settings: Weaving Together Education, Ecology & Community David Kamp, New York, NY NATURAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR A Playground's Not Enough: Playscapes as an Emerging Paradigm in Park Planning Eleanor Luken, Cincinnati, OH Asheville's K-12 School Green Retrofit Initiatives Tamara Graham, Asheville, NC
City Council Chambers
Afternoon	EVALUATING CITY LIVABILITY Moderator: Tom Martineau, Tallahassee, FL Cities for People and Engaged Citizens. Back to the Future Larry Keller, Cleveland, OH Where Everything is Great: Improving Mid-Size City Core Areas Gary Sands, Plymouth, MI FUNDING CHILD-FRIENDLY EFFORTS Moderator: Tom Martineau, Tallahassee, FL Strategic Grantmaking for Child-Friendly Communities Jeanne Scanlon, Perkasie, PA THE CITY AS PLAYGROUND Moderator: Tom Martineau, Tallahassee, FL City of Discovery Dennis Kilper, Blacksburg, VA Designing the City for Play: Safe, Everyday Places for Children Isaac Williams, College Park, MD Catherine Stratton Treadway, College Park, MD
Historic Courthouse
Afternoon	WHAT DO CHILDREN LEARN FROM THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT? Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Preventing Lead Paint Exposure Michael Weitzman, New York, NY Yes, in My Neighborhood Joseph Juhasz, Denver, CO Robert Flanagan. Denver, CO URBAN PLACES, SOCIAL LIFE & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Contribution of Open Spaces to Quality of Life & Urban Sustainability: an Example from Ankara, Turkey Bahar Gedikli, Ankara, TURKEY Improving Urban Life through Urban Public Spaces Marjan Hajjari, Victoria, AUSTRALIA THE VALUE OF PUBLIC SPACES FOR CHILDREN Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Place Making – "My Mum said I have to run around and stuff…" Elena Kalnin, Victoria, AUSTRALIA Valence of Urban Public Spaces: An Inquiry to Child-Friendly Neighborhoods Felia Srinaga, Tangerang, INDONESIA
Memminger Auditorium
Afternoon	FOCUS ON FAMILY-FRIENDLY CITIES Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA Creative Class or Procreative Class Laura Reese, Plymouth, MI Action, Branding & Resistance – the Role of Planners in Creating Family Friendly Cities Mildred Warner, Ithaca, NY Joseph Rukus, Gainesville, FL BUILDING NETWORKS & RESOURCES FOR HEALTHY, CHILD-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA How Community Organizing, Public Health, Urban Planning, and Public Policy Combine to Reduce Obesity Rates Phil Valko, St. Louis, MO Innovative Ways that Local Government can be a Catalyst for Building Health into Community Design Tracy Delaney, San Diego, CA COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION: CASE STUDIES Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA "Eco-socio" Community in the Large Postindustrial City, Krasnoyarsk Irina V. Kukina, Krasnoyarsk, EASTERN SIBERIA Creating Communities of Choice: Stakeholder Participation in Community Planning Joan Marshall Wesley, Jackson, MS
Old Exchange
Evening	*Discussion Dinner & Awards Ceremony*

Wednesday, October 20

Dock Street Theater
Morning	HEALTHY LAND USE & TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: PART 1 The Health Effects of the Built Environment* Richard J. Jackson, Los Angeles, CA Planning for Bicycles & Pedestrians in Germany Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Freiburg, GERMANY Child- & Youth-Friendly Land Use & Transport Planning Guidelines Richard Gilbert, Toronto, CANADA HEALTHY LAND USE & TRANSPORTATION PLANNING: PART 2 Public Health, Land Use & Transit Planning Lawrence Frank, Vancouver, BC, CANADA Using Health Impact Assessment to Promote Healthy Community Design Andrew Dannenberg, Atlanta, GA Planning for Bicycles & Pedestrians in Columbia, MO Mayor Darwin Hindman, Columbia, MO
Concurrent Sessions
Dock Street Theater
Afternoon	TACKLING CHALLENGING PLANNING CONTEXTS Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Drivability, Walkability and Public Space: Making Dubai More Livable Douglas Kelbaugh, Ann Arbor, MI The Slums: Coming to a Suburb Near You? Tom Martineau, Tallahassee, FL Re-envisioning the Office Park: Transition from Suburban Development to a Multi-Use Neighborhood Onezieme Mouton, Lafayette, LA Tom Sammons, Lafayette, LA MAKING THE WHOLE CITY CHILD-FRIENDLY Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Rethinking Play Provisions for Child Active Life Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM Kid-Friendly TODs Robert Cervero, Berkeley, CA Portland's Livability Investments: Improving a City that Works for Children Byron Estes, Portland, OR The Downtown Raleigh Renaissance – Creating Livable Streets Daniel T. Douglas, Raleigh, NC
Council Chambers
Afternoon	PLANNING THE SCHOOL JOURNEY Moderator: Richard Gilbert, Toronto, ON, CANADA School Location & Student Travel: Analysis of Factors Affecting Mode Choice in Three Metropolitan Areas Reid Ewing, Salt Lake City, UT Safe Routes to School Ian Thomas, Columbia, MO CHILDREN IN NATURE: WHAT DO THEY LEARN? Moderator: Perry Bigelow, Aurora, IL Natural Play & Narrative Philip Waters, Cornwall, UNITED KINGDOM Green 'Edutainment' in a Community Setting: Empowering Kids in the Natural & Built Environments Eileen Vandoros, Madison, WI NATURAL CLASSROOMS Moderator: Perry Bigelow, Aurora, IL A Grassroots Effort to Renew the Schoolyard: The Learning Garden Katie Kingery-Page, Manhattan, KS Jon Hunt, Manhattan, KS We Grew It! Enrichment through Sustainable Gardening in Elementary School Melissa Scott Kozak, Athens, GA Jennifer McCreight, Athens, GA Nature Experience in Pre-School Outdoor Play Areas Camilla Rice, Lincoln, NE
Historic Courthouse
Afternoon	ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA Local Food Networks as a Source of Place-Based Community Jody Beck, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND Do Fast Food Restaurants Cluster Around High Schools? Hilary Nixon, San Jose, CA FORM-BASED CODES IN URBAN/SUBURBAN REDEVELOPMENT Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA Form-Based Codes for Old Urbanism Steven Heikin, Boston, MA Revitalizing Urbanized Watersheds through Densification: A City of Fairfax Case Study Dean R. Bork, Blacksburg, VA Josh Franklin, Blacksburg, VA TRANSORMING DYSFUNCTIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS Moderator: Borzou Rahimi, Los Angeles, CA Transforming Auto-centric Communities into Walkable Neighborhoods: An Assessment of Two Neighborhoods in San Jose George Schroeder, San Jose, CA From the Social Game into the Big World. Design & Planning Aspects in Conception of Transformation of "Microdistrict" into "Community" Irina Pozdnyakova, Krasnoyarsk, EASTERN SIBERIA
Evening	Reception

Thursday, October 21

Dock Street Theater
Morning	GUIDELINES FOR HEALTHY, CHILD-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR PANEL: CREATING NEW CHILD-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES Moderator – Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Perry Bigelow, Aurora, IL Bruno Bottarelli, Chicago, IL Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Freiburg, GERMANY Stephen Kellert, New Haven, CT Richard Gilbert, Toronto, CANADA PANEL: REVIVING CHILD-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS IN CITIES Moderator: - Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Charleston, SC Tom Martineau, Talahassee, FL Richard J. Jackson, Los Angeles, CA Andrew Dannenberg, Atlanta, GA Mayor Darwin Hindman, Columbia, MO
Lunch	Farewell "Taste of Charleston" Cookout
Afternoon	Tour of Noisette, a sustainable new community

48th IMCL Conference

Are you looking for a speaker?

Suzanne Lennard is available to speak, or as a Consultant on Making Cities Healthy and Livable, Child-friendly Communities, Public Places, etc.

"The conference was one of the most interesting and genuinely useful for information gathering that I’ve been to. The different backgrounds of the participants addressing the same issues was the key."

Joe Anglin Glatting Lopez Kercher Anglin

"A wonderful Conference. I truly believe this is the best Conference on cities."

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

"The most important continuous conference dialogue on making the world's cities and towns more livable for all of their inhabitants."

Dr. Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Governor, State of South Baden, Germany

"Congratulations for your extraordinary and successful effort. The Conference holds a magnifying glass to the world’s best cities, revealing why, and how they work."

Benjamin Thompson, FAIA AIA Gold Medalist

"Love for our cities unites all of us in this unique, impressive conference, with participants from different countries, with different professional backgrounds, but with one purpose: making our cities more livable."

Antonio Casellati Former Mayor, City of Venice, Italy

"Thank you for the utterly fascinating conference in Santa Fe... It has been a long time since I have been intellectually stimulated and been involved with such international creativity and innovations. The conference energized me and I was able to bring back ideas and information to my city."

Councilmember Stephanie Karlin, Avondale, AZ

"What an amazing conference! One of the best professional events I have ever attended!! Well-structured, extremely well-organized and super-high quality of both the presenters and materials presented."

Dr. Mirela Newman, Coordinator, Urban Studies Graduate Program, S Conn St. University

The Forgotten Child

“There is no topic more crucial to the well-being of our cities and of our democracy, and no one more qualified to give it the thoughtful attention it deserves.”