Landscape Architecture

#79 Community Involvement in Neighborhood Planning

Number of presentations - 10, including:
 

The HUD Choice Neighborhoods Program in Action (Slides and Paper) Adam Rosa, Senior Associate, Camiros, Ltd, Chicago, IL

City of Hamilton’s Neighborhood Action Strategy (Slides and Paper) Suzanne Brown, Manager, Neighbourhood Development Strategies, Hamilton, ON, CANADA

#76 Planning for Parks and Incidental Green Spaces

Number of presentations - 8, including:
 

Planning and Design of Sustainable Urban Parks: a Methodology and Two Case Studies in Vancouver and Melbourne (Paper and Slides) Patricia Rios Cabello, PhD student, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Querétaro, MEXICO

Partnerships and Park Design for Healthy Communities (Paper and Slides) Bianca Shulaker, Student (and Research Coordinator), University of Southern California (and The Trust for Public Land), San Mateo, CA

#75 Ensuring Equitable Communities

Number of presentations - 7, including:
 

Social Justice and the Obesity Crisis (Paper) Melvin Delgado, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work & Chair of Macro-Practice, Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, MA

Health Equity for Displaced Citizens (Paper) Courtney Anderson, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA

#74 Ecological Sustainability, Nature & Health

Number of presentations - 6, including:
 

Living through extreme weather events and natural disasters: How resilient are our high-rise high-density typologies? (Paper)
Rosemary Kennedy, Sr. Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, AUSTRALIA

#72 Community Collaboration in Achieving Healthy Neighborhoods

Number of presentations - 9, including:
 

Navigating Upstream: A Community Based Participatory Approach to Achieving Social and Environmental Health Equity (Paper)
Jana Meinhold, Assistant Professor, Child and Family Studies, Portland State University; Veronica Dujon, Professor of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA

#71 Learning from Portland

Number of presentations - 6, including:
 

Building A Community―The Successes and the Failures (Paper)
George Crandall, FAIA, Crandall Arambula, Portland, OR, USA

The People/Nature Approach to Park System Planning (Paper and Slides)
Brett Horner, Asset Manager, Portland Parks & Recreation, Portland OR, USA

#70 Public Space & Social Life

Number of presentations - 6, including:
 

Health, Social Connectedness & the Built Environment (Paper and Slides)
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.), Director, International Making Cities Livable Council, Portland, OR, USA

Restoring Ecuador’s Historic Plazas for Social Integration (Paper and Slides)
Jacobo Herdoiza, Coordinator, The Urban Heritage Project, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Quito, ECUADOR

#69 Healthy Communities for All

Number of presentations - 11, including:
 

Community Development for Elder-Friendly Communities (Paper and Slides)
Philip B. Stafford, Ph.D., Director, Center on Aging & Community, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Rethinking Play Provisions for Child Active Life (Slides)
Lamine Mahdjoubi, Ph.D., Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM

#15 Waterfront Design

Number of papers - 5, including:
 
Reclaiming the Waterfront Through Urban Design Guidelines Case Study of the Chicago River Urban Design Guidelines
Marcel C. Acosta
 
Urban Design as Public Policy: Integrating Planning, Design, Programming and Fundraising
Carl V. Patton and Lawrence P. Witzling
 
East Cambridge Riverfront Project
Dennis Carlone
 

#16 Nature in the City

Number of papers - 7, including:

 
Nature as Healer: Toward New Forms in Health Care Environments
Karen Kettlety
 
Nature in the City: Necessity or Luxury?
Deborah E. Ryan
 
The Nature of Cities
Pam Bissonnette
 
Greenways: A "New" Model for Open Space Planners
Robert Pirani
 

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