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50th Conference Program

Sunday, June 23

Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
1.00 - 6.00	Registration Exhibit program: *Successful Designs & Programs for Reshaping Suburbia*
Afternoon	Walking and Biking Tours of Portland Tour: Orenco Station: a Growing, Sustainable TOD
6.00 - 7.00	*Welcome Reception*

Monday, June 24

Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Morning	WELCOME & PLENARY SESSIONS Charlie Hales, Mayor Tom Hughes, Metro President IMCL Board Suburbia and the Health of Our Children Richard J. Jackson, Los Angeles, CA Reshaping Suburbia: The Challenge Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Creating Healthy Suburban Neighborhoods: Freiburg, Germany Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Freiburg, GERMANY Retrofitting Suburbia Ellen Dunham-Jones, Atlanta, GA
Governor Hotel, Heritage Ballroom
Lunch	*Conference Luncheon*
Concurrent Sessions
Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Afternoon	SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Sustainable Social Health Carolina Casares, Decatur, GA Social Sustainability and Suburbia Steve Rossiter, Bondi Junction, AUSTRALIA IMPLEMENTING SIGNATURE STREETS, COMPLETE STREETS & GREEN STREETS Moderator: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR Signature Streets Create Vibrant Social Activity and Spur Civic Engagement Scott Scarfone, Baltimore, MD Broadway-King Street Recreation Corridor Case Study Gordon Shaw, Yorkton, CANADA Pontiac Livability Study: Downtown Pontiac Transportation Assessment Thomas Coleman, Chicago, IL Building Partnerships to Implement Complete Streets in Hawai’i Heidi Hansen Smith, Honolulu, HI
Governor Hotel, Billiard Room
Afternoon	HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS COLLABORATIVE PLANNING Moderator: Ettore Maria Mazzola, Rome, ITALY The HUD Choice Neighborhoods Program in Action Adam Rosa, Chicago, IL City of Hamilton’s Neighborhood Action Strategy Suzanne Brown, Hamilton, ON, CANADA COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: BEST PRACTICES Moderator: Ettore Maria Mazzola, Rome, ITALY Fremont’s Community Outreach Team – A Volunteer-Based Approach to Boosting Community Involvement Dan Schoenholz, Fremont, CA Public Participation Helps Ease Urban Transition Under “Smart Growth” David Burns, Lacey, WA HOLISTIC PLANNING FOR SUBURBAN WALKABILITY Moderator: Ettore Maria Mazzola, Role, ITALY Access Suburbia – From Plan to App – Embracing Suburbia in Regional Networks of Walkability Rick Phillips, Emeryville, CA A Holistic Approach to Community Connectivity Cindy Health, Plainfield, NH
Governor Hotel, Library
Afternoon	HEALTH, WELL-BEING & URBAN DESIGN: METRICS & TOOLS Moderator: Ferd Johns, Oak Harbor, WA Improving Suburbs for All Ages: Scorecard and Toolkit Scott Ranville, Littleton, CO County Health Rankings & Roadmaps – Health Being Where You Live, Learn, Work & Play Angela Russell, Madison, WI LEGAL ISSUES IN ACHIEVING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Moderator: Ferd Johns, Oak Harbor, WA The Pathology of Suburbs David Green, Atlanta, GA How Comprehensive Planning Makes Suburbia More Sprawling Michael Lewyn, Central Islip, NY The Impact of Regulatory and Contractual Bias in Building on Community Health and Amenity Peter Sarlos, Lane Cove, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Governor Hotel, Card Room
Afternoon	INNOVATIVE VISIONS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION Moderator: Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, UK Patchwork – A Model for Sustainable Neighborhood Design Skip Graffam, Philadelphia, PA Effective Citizen Engagement Strategies for Large Scale Urban Intensification Lise Burcher, Guelph, CANADA PLANNING FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH Moderator: Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, UK MC² Community Hub – Innovative Planning for Community Health, Wellbeing and Inclusion Nicole Daws, Manningham, AUSTRALIA Destination Healthcare: Marketing a Healthy/Healthcare Community Gary Clinton Wheat II, Aurora, CO SUBURBAN STORMWATER RETROFITTING Moderator: Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, UK Inglenook: A Sustainable Suburban Community Neil Myers, Indianapolis, IN Suburban Street Stormwater Retrofitting: Design Implications in the Sprawling American Southwest Andrew Fox, Raleigh, NC

Tuesday, June 25

Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Morning	IMCL AWARD RECIPIENTS Building Healthy Suburban Neighborhoods: Salt Lake City Ralph Becker, Mayor, City of Salt Lake City, UT Creating a Heart in a Suburban City: Carmel, IN James Brainard, Mayor, City of Carmel, IN PLANNING BICYCLE-FRIENDLY SUBURBS AND CITIES The Experience from Freiburg, Germany Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Freiburg, GERMANY NEIGHBORHOODS FOR ALL The Lifetime Community Philip Stafford, Bloomington, IN Universal Design on the Urban Scale Wolfgang Preiser, Scottsdale, AZ
Concurrent Sessions
Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Afternoon	CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Metro and the Portland-metropolitan Area’s Experience Rex Burkholder & Jessica Atwater, Portland, OR TOOLS FOR ACHIEVING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION Making the Economic Case for Active Transportation Elliot Akwai-Scott, Portland, OR Characteristics of Suburban Cyclists and Walkers:What Citizens Want and Need Shelley Oylear and Kimberly Repp, Hillsboro, OR Designing Facilities to Improve Bike User Safety and Comfort in the Suburban Context Drusilla van Hengel, Portland, OR Shelley Oylear, Hillsboro, OR ASSESSING ACCESSIBILITY Achieving an Accessible Healthy Community Mary Ann Jackson, AUSTRALIA
Governor Hotel, Billiard Room
Afternoon	URBAN FORM AND LIVABILITY From Town to Suburb: The Loss of Urban Form in America after WWII Selena Anders, Rome, ITALY HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND SUBURBIA Reclaiming Suburbia: A Case Study of Historic Preservation in Northeast Baltimore City Eric Holcomb and Lauren Schiszik, Baltimore, MD RESHAPING THE MALL AND THE STRIP Retrofitting a Suburban Mall (Northtown Plaza) into a New Town Center Hiro Hata, Buffalo, NY The College of Corridor Knowledge – Reinventing Corridor Crossroads as Urban Centers Gary Rogers and Jonathan Allen, Lauderdale Lakes, FL COMBATTING FOOD DESERTS Where the Garden and the Concrete Meet: Decreasing Food Deserts in Ouachita Parish Brianna Lyons, New Orleans, LA GIS Mapping of Toronto’s Food Retail Environments to Inform Low Income Apartment Tower Community Revitalization Brian Cook, Toronto, CANADA
Governor Hotel, Library
Afternoon	HOLISTIC APPROACHES TO ENSURE EQUITABLE COMMUNITIES Creating and Sustaining Inclusive and Equitable Communities in the Western USA Kurt Creager and Paul Peninger, Seattle, WA Informing Federal Affordable Housing Policy with a Health Impact Assessment Holly Holtzen, Columbis, OH Building Healthy Communities through Affordable Housing Development Elizabeth Westburg, Seattle, WA THE SQUARE – A PLACE FOR SOCIAL AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Civic and Social Engagement in Piazza San Cosimato, Rome, Italy Paul Zorr, Auburn, AL WOMEN AND CITIES Courage and Common Sense: Women and Cities Jane Jose, Sydney, AUSTRALIA PLANNING FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL Trials, Tribulations, and Transit Planning in California’s Central Valley David Schecter and Wilma Quan, Fresno, CA
Governor Hotel, Card Room
Afternoon	RESHAPING SUBURBIA The Suburban Shopping Mall: Can it Contribute to the Health and Well-Being of an Aging Population? Melissa Cannon, Portland, OR Multi-Generational Planning to Reshape Suburbia: Demographic Change and Theoretical Insights Amanda Micklow, Ithaca, NY Village Design as a Retrofit Solution for Suburbia Christopher Mare, Bellingham, WA WALKABILITY AND ACTIVE LIVING Pedestrians as an Indicator Species for a Healthy Community – Walkability at MuellerAustin Jane Futrell Winslow, Austin, TX Planning and Design of Sustainable Urban Parks: a Methodology and Two Case Studies in Vancouver and Melbourne Patricia Rios Cabello, Querétaro, MEXICO INTEGRATING PUBLIC HEALTH AND PLANNING Health Impact Assessment Methods: An Evaluation of Practice in the United States Joseph Schuchter, Berkeley, CA
Governor Hotel, Billiard Room
Evening	*Discussion Dinner & Awards Ceremony*

Wednesday, June 26

Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Morning	REPLACING A DEGRADED SUBURB WITH A BIOPHILIC DESIGN Proposal for Urban Regeneration of the Suburb ZEN, Palermo, Italy Ettore Maria Mazzola, Rome, ITALY DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR CHILDREN IN SUBURBIA Life in Suburbia and its Implications on Children's Use of Outdoors Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, ENGLAND, UK COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC HEALTH / PLANNING PROGRAMS Transforming Healthy Communities: Sonoma Health Action Peter Rumble, Santa Rosa, CA Healthy Toronto by Design: The Role of Public Health in Shaping a Healthy City David McKeown, Toronto, CANADA
Concurrent Sessions
Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Afternoon	ACHIEVING HEALTHY BUILT ENVIRONMENTS Public Health and Urban Densification in Australia: Synergies and Contradictions Lou Wilson, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA The Role of Legislation in Population Health Strategies – a Case Study of Adelaide, Australia Johannes Pieters, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA A Culture Sensitive Design Approach to Sustainable and Healthy New Town Development in China Changshan Huang, College Station, TX, USA RESHAPING SUBURBAN TOWNS Transforming Suburbia through the City General Plan George Glade Shaw, South Jordan, UT Langley’s Public Realm Plan: “From Grey to Green” Gayle Martin, Deputy Mayor, and Gerald Minchuk, Langley, BC, CANADA New Life for Old Plans: Reimagining America’s Most Well-known Planned City for the 21^st Century Jane Dembner, Columbia, MD
Governor Hotel, Billiard Room
Afternoon	URBAN DENSITY, LIVABILITY AND HEALTHY URBAN FORM Capturing Urban Intensity Andres Sevtsuk, SINGAPORE Placebos and Medications: Mitigating the Contradiction between Suburbia and Sustainability Towards Healthy Communities Alcestis Paraskevi Rodi, Athens, GREECE Unique Character with Ordinary Fabric Thomas Hubka, Portland, OR NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS AND RECREATION TRAILS From Space to Place: Neighborhood Park as a “Third Place” Nidhi Gulati and C. Scott Shafer, College Station, TX Greenville Hospital System Swamp Rabbit Trail: Year 1 Findings Lisa Hallo, Greenville, SC HEALTH EQUITY PLANNING Health Equity for Displaced Citizens Courtney Anderson, Atlanta, GA Social Justice and the Obesity Crisis Melvin Delgado, Boston, MA
Governor Hotel, Library
Afternoon	ACTIVATING SOCIAL CAPITAL TO RESHAPE SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES Civic Ecology: A Citizen-Driven Framework for Transforming Suburban Communities Timothy Smith, Portland, OR Know Your Neighbors, Save the Planet Thomas Macias, Burlington, VT VISIONING WITH SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES Best Practices: Lessons from Visioning, Dialoguing, and Collaborating with Suburbia Marjorie Callahan, Norman, OK The Turning Point: A Story of Advocacy, Partnership and Community Buy-in Sherry Barrett, Spartanburg, SC COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN RESTORING NATURE PLACES IN SUBURBIA Unity Gardens: A Countywide Model of Community Gardening Scott Sernau, South Bend, IN People Making Places, Places Making People Philip R. Heywood, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Governor Hotel, Card Room
Afternoon	ENVCOURAGING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY What Makes a Healthy Community? Examining the Role of the Built and Social Environment in Enhancing Physical Activity Mika Moran, Haifa, ISRAEL Partnerships and Park Design for Healthy Communities Bianca Shulaker, San Mateo, CA FACILITATING WALKABLE COMMUNITIES Transit in Suburbia: An Analysis of Perth’s Mass Transit System and How American Suburbs Can Overcome Automobile Dependency Staci Haber, New York, NY The Glue of the City: Designing an Inteconnected System of Public Spaces in Calgary’s Center City Armaghan Baghoori, Calgary, CANADA A GIS-based Pedestrian Network Model Mengyuan Xu, Spokane, WA IDEAS FOR SUBURBIA Making Suburbs Lovable: Grounding Suburban Residents in Their Homes, Neighborhoods and Public Spaces as a Foundation for Sustainability Laura Banks Bochinski, Bellingham, WA Secession: Its Not All Blue and Gray Kristin Porter, Athens, GA
Evening	The Human Scale. A film by Andreas Dalsgaard featuring the work of Jan Gehl, Jan Gehl Architects

Thursday, June 27

Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Morning	PORTLAND CITY AND METRO: CREATING HEALTHY SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES Achieving Twenty-Minute Neighborhoods in Portland Susan Anderson, Portland, OR Growing Transit Oriented Development in Oregon’s Silicon Forest Colin Cooper, Hillsboro, OR Urban Acupuncture Michael Mehaffy, Portland, OR WORKSHOP Achieving a Healthy Suburban Community: Goals, Players, Strategies and Tools
Governor Hotel, Grand Ballroom
Afternoon	TOURS Walking and Bike Tours to Portland’s Suburban Neighborhoods Urbanizing a Suburban Downtown: Hillsboro, an Outer Ring City

50th Conference

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IMCL 50th Conference

Thank you!

We just wrapped up the 56th Conference in Portland, a huge thanks to those of you who attended and made this conference so special. We’re working on making the slides and photos available to the attendees, and we hope you’re connecting with those you met on social media.

"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.”

Daniel Kemmis, Former Mayor of Missoula, MT, Author, The Good City & the Good Life