Joel Hirschhorn.
When he was with the National Governors Association, his New
Community Design to the Rescue became the most widely disseminated
report ever issued by the NGA. His book, Sprawl
Kills ,
details how health is harmed by sprawl. Recognized nationally
as a leading advocate of innovative design, he speaks on smart
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Karen Walz. The founder
of Strategic Community Solutions, a consulting firm specializing
in innovative, consensus-based community planning, Karen Walz
has provided services for communities in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana,
Missouri, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas. She served as Executive
Director of The Dallas Plan…
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Dom Nozzi. Author of Road
to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It , he has developed land use, transportation and environmental elements
of city plans and managed Boulder’s growth rate control system. He champions
pedestrian friendly design and contributed to New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future … More >> |
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Richard Carson. Director
of Community Develop- ment for the fastest growing county in the
State of Washington, he has also served as the Director of Planning
for Portland's regional government. He speaks with candor and
humor about the realities of planning, addressing smart growth,
new urbanism, and regional and statewide programs…
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Gary Binger. He has
been a planning director and community development director, managed
regional planning for the Association of (San Francisco) Bay Area
Governments, consulted for the Irvine Foundation and the Mineta
Transportation Institute, and been Director of the Urban Land
Institute's California Smart Growth Initiative… More
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Richard Register.
He leads the nonprofit Ecocity Builders, and he engages audiences
with a present- ation featuring cities - from Curitiba to Berkeley
to Berlin - implementing sustainable development. He links sprawl
to problems from global warming to species extinction, but he
focuses primarily on what is being done to craft solutions…
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Gary Schoennauer.
As a big city planning director, he was a key leader in turning
San Jose from sprawl to smart growth. After leading the process
to create a new general plan focusing on infill, he managed implementation
for the next two decades. He tells audiences how planning really
works - beyond the textbooks, and from both sides… More
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