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Walkable Communities Virtual Event, Dan Burden live, 9-11-09, resend
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Aug 27, 2009 21:08 PDT
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From: Dan Burden <dbur-@Glatting.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 26, 2009 6:46 am
Subject: Walkable Communities Virtual Event, Dan Burden live, 9-11-09
Everybody... Ready for release... Dan's first webinar is just weeks away,
now ready for signups. Please spread the word widely among your friends,
associates, and especially your listserves and clients.
Release is ready to go (see below). We would like to get as broad and diverse
an audience as we can. If we are successful with this first model session we
hope to expand this effort to a walkable, livable, community design series
(with a multiple set of speakers) in a low-cost series next year. There will
be a lot of content in this "opener" that everyone should find of significant
benefit. One of our goals in attracting many "viewers" is to receive their
feedback on what is important to them... so that we can perfect the content
of future webinars.
All right, everyone... on your marks, get set... go!!! (sound of a pop-gun going
off)
Dan Burden, Principal and Senior Urban Designer
Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin
Orlando, Florida 32801
614-595-0976
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Walkable Communities: Achieving Community Goals Through Strategic Community
Design
Dan Burden, Live & On-Line
September 11, 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern, 12:00-1:30PM Pacific
Take part live from your office, no matter where you are. No travel req
uired.
Presenter: Dan Burden, long-time national leader on Walkable Communities,
co-founder of Walkable Communities Inc. and senior urban designer with Glatting
Jackson, with these other distinctions:
• Time Magazine recently listed Dan as “one of the six most important
civic innovators i n the world”
• Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Sciences) honored
Dan by selecting him as their Distinguished Lecturer in 2001
• The national Smart Growth Coalition awarded Dan its first “Lifetime
Achievement Award”
• League of American Bicyclists lists Dan as “One of the 25 Most
Significant Leaders in Bicycling for the Past 100 Years”
Summary: This interactive session on the walkability, sustainability, health and
eco nomic vitality of communities will take participants back in time to the era
when communities were built to be efficient, socially engaging, socially
interactive, lively, dynamic centers. The towns we now love best, are designed
in similar ways… around healthy, human-scaled environments and transportation
(feet, transit and bicycles).
This program will provide a highly visual look at the definition and nature of
small, medium-sized and large-scale walkable neighborhoods, towns and cities.
Dan will share what he refers to as the "prosperity model" that can help get our
economy out of its slump, at the neighborhood level, boosting
home values 30,000
to 180,000 dollars per property, if neighborhoods are correctly built to honor
town making principles.
These critical principles will be illustrated, enriched with definitive detail
and wide range of examples. Once a foundation is built for walkability, using
strategically chosen patterns, measures and techniques, the stage is set for a
healthy, socially and economically dynamic place. Dan will provide four case
studies... from small towns, to mall-to-town conversions and discussion of how
the issues are dealt with in larger regional context. These "best case" studies
will represent all regions of the U.S.
Links will also be provided for graphically-rich documentation, readings and
follow-up resources.
Format: Presentation with high-impact images followed by a 15-20 minute Question
& Answer session.
Who Should Attend: Developers, community planners, architects, bankers,
realtors, elected leaders, landscape architects,20engineers, community leaders,
local regulators, tourism and economic development officials, the health
community and others who want to affect the shape and livability of their
communities.
Credits: Continuing education (CM) credits pending with national AICP.
Registration: Go to www.CreatingTheFutureNow.com<http://www.creatingthefuturenow.com/>
Click on the "On-Line Learning Academy" tab and scroll to end of page. Choose
“Invite D” on the PayPal drop-down. Your small-contribution ($20) will benefit a
worthwhile-
cause.
Sponsor: The Future Is Now Foundation is a non-partisan, charitable, non-profit
organization focused on training and education. The Foundation is an AICP continuing education provider.
For Details: www.CreatingtheFutureNow.com<http://www.benchmarkemail.com/c/l?A1-287908976>
(see Walkable Communities tab), forthe-@earthlink.net<mailto:forthe-@earthlink.net>
or 850.997.2837.
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