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Plenary and Panel Sessions:

Concurrent Sessions: Saving Our Cities / New Priorities in Land Use Planning / Cross Cultural Perspectives

• The Good City: the Vision

Saving Our Cities

• Creating Places
• The Importance of Third Places
• Criteria for Urban Aesthetics
• Building a Consensus Vision
• Balanced Transportation Policy
• The City's Architectural Identity
• Nature in the City
• Children in the City
• Enlivening the Center
• Festivals, Markets
• Economic Renewal
• Workshop: Strategies & Methods

New Priorities in Land Use Planning

• Halting Urban Sprawl
• Ecosystem Framework
• Guidelines for Orderly Development
• Neighborhood Concept of Urban Development
• Community & Site Design Techniques

Towards a Village Model of Urban Development

• Livable Suburban Neighborhoods
• Escape from the City
• The Village Model of Urban Development in Papua New Guinea

Cross Cultural Perspectives

• Cities in Transformation: Jeddah, Samarkand, Historical Cities in the P.R. of China
• City Structure: Bohemian Towns in the Czech Republic
• Hong Kong
• City Case Studies: St. Petersburg, Russia; Antwerp, Belgium; Graz, Austria; Erlangen Germany
• Prague, Strasbourg, Ravensburg, Freiburg
• Making Munich a Livable City
• Brisbane Urban Renewal
• The Work of International Organizations: The International Center
• The International Federation for Housing & Planning
• Urban Space Use Patterns: Mexican Americans in L.A.
• Alexandria, Egypt

Revitalizing Downtown

• Farmers Markets
• Integrating Nature in Urban Revitalization
• Art in Public Places
• Reclaiming Central Urban Spaces
• Stream Corridors
• Economics of City Revitalization
• Financing Public Improvements
• Economics of Affordable Housing
• Energy Efficient Affordable Housing

Reviving City Neighborhoods

• Cincinnati
• Pittsburgh

Large Scale Downtown Projects

• Winnipeg, Coral Gables
• Problems of Large Scale Development

Community Participation

• Community Architecture in London, Prague
• Community Development/Citizen Participation
• Architecture, City Scape and Social Pathology
• Policy for the Homeless
• New Priorities in Transportation Planning
• Bicycling & Walking
• Urban Tourism: A New Challenge for Planners

Special Presentation

• Recent Projects by Ben & Jane Thompson

Speakers

• Diane N. Abbey, Director, Cultural Affairs, Charleston, SC, USA
• William J. Anglin, Jr., Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Orlando, FL, USA
• Robert H. Becker, Director, Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
• Paul Bert, Director of Building, City of Freiburg, GERMANY
• Krzysztof Bieda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA
• John Burrell, Burrell Foley Fischer, London, ENGLAND, UK
• Gardner Church, Visiting Associate Professor, York University, North York, ON, CANADA.
• Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard Ph.D.(Arch.), Director, International Making Cities Livable Council, Carmel, CA, USA. Conference Organizer.
• David D. Davis, Community Development Director, City of Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
• Duane W. Dedelow, Jr., Mayor, City of Hammond, IN, USA.
• Derek Drummond, FRAIC, Director, School of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA.
• Christopher W. Dunn, ASLA, Dunn Associates, Burlington, VT, USA.
• Stanley A. Eisner, AICP, AEP, Executive Officer, LAFCO, Ventura Local Agency Formation Commission, Ventura, CA, USA.
• Hugh Freeman, M.D., Editor, The British Journal of Psychiatry, London, ENGLAND, UK.
• Cletus Gonduan, Lecturer, Department of Architecture & Building, The Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, Papua, NEW GUINEA.
• David Gosling, Ph.D., State of Ohio Eminent Scholar in Urban Design, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• Dietmar Hahlweg, Mayor, City of Erlangen, GERMANY.
• Baoshan Han, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• James R. Hassinger, Ph.D., Director, Department of Planning & Development, Jackson, MS, USA.
• Hazel Henderson, Economist, St. Augustine, FL, USA.
• Michal Hexner, Doc. Ing. Arch., Institute of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.
• Edmund N. Hillard, ALI, ASLA, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
• William A. Howard, Ph.D., Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.
• The Honorable Maynard Jackson, Mayor, City of Atlanta, GA, USA.
  Don Robert Johnson, Senior Leader, Ethical Culture Society, New York, NY, USA.
• Jaques Kaswan, President, Urban Alternatives, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• George Kronawitter, Lord Mayor, City of Munich, GERMANY.
• Walter Kulash, Senior Transportation Engineer, Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Orlando, FL, USA.
• Guenter Lehmann, School of Architecture & Building, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, AUSTRALIA.
• Henry L. Lennard Ph.D., Chairman, Advisory Board, International Making Cities Livable Council, Carmel, CA. Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. Conference Organizer
• Gianni Longo, President, Urban Initiatives, New York, NY, USA.
• Richard M. Levy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of Calgary, Alberta, CANADA.
• Frederick Meyers, MD, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Janet Moran, Councilwoman, 4th District, Hammond, IN, USA.
  Sue Myrick, Mayor, Charlotte, NC, USA.
• Kaj Noschis, Jungian Analyst, Department of Architecture, Federal Polytechnic School, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND.
• Peter Novak, Ph.D., M.D., Director, Department of Medical Sociology, University of Ulm, GERMANY.
• Ray Oldenburg, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA.
• Gerald Porterfield, ASLA, Director, Community Design Group, Talbot Group, Virginia Beach, VA, USA.
• 
  Lee C. Quill, AIA, Associate, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Washington DC, USA.
• Patrick J. Quinn, FAIA, Professor, Department of Architecture, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
• The Honorable Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor, City of Charleston, SC, USA.
• James Rojas, Los Angeles, CA.
• Wolfgang Schulz, University Professor Dr., Institute of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA.
• Charles Siemon, Siemon Larsen & March, Chicago, IL, USA.
• Mark Soden, ASLA, Design Workshop, Inc., Aspen, CO, USA.
• Jay M. Stein, Ph.D., AICP, Professor and Chairman, College of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
• Catherine B. Swanson, Director, Department of Community Development, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
• Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Dr., First Mayor and Building Director, Freiburg im Breisgau, GERMANY.
• Geoff D. Veal, Principal Town Planner, Department of Development and Planning, Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA.
• Andrew Vernooy, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
• The Honorable Hermann Vogler, Mayor, City of Ravesburg, GERMANY.
• Karen M. Wallsten, AICP, Lead Planner, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Elizabeth B. Waters, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
• Bert Winterbottom, Principal, LDR International Inc., Columbia, MD, USA.
• George C. Wynne, Director, International Center, Academy for State & Local Government, Washington, DC, USA.
• Bernard Zajtmann, Chief Administrative Officer, Antwerp, BELGIUM.

Special Events

• Reception - Gibbes Museum of Art
• Concurrent Receptions - Historic Charleston Mansions: Nathaniel Russell House, John Rutledge House, Battery Carriage House, and 21 King Street.
• Awards Luncheon - Old Exchange Building
• Farewell Luncheon - Confederate Home