Urban Design

#110 Healthy Green Urbanism

Number of presentations – 8, including:

Understanding Green Infrastructure to Realize Our Sustainability Potential (Slides)
Jeremy Bailey, Woodstock, ON, CANADA

Urbanizing Ecologies for Healthier Community Building (Paper and Slides)
Sandra Murillo-Morales, Toronto, ON, CANADA

Los Angeles Arts District Green Alley Project: Integrating Qualtitative Thinking into the Design Process (Slides)
Gabrielle Newmark, Pomona, CA, USA

$75.00

#109 Transformations To Create The City Of Short Distances

Number of presentations – 17, including:

The 21^stCentury Suburban Transformation: Climate Change and Urban Design (Slides)
James Brainard, Carmel, IN, USA

Warsaw’s Neighborhoods: Creating a Good Place to Live (Slides)
Marlena Happach, Warsaw, POLAND

$95.00

#108 Defining Healthy 10-Minute Neighborhoods

Number of presentations – 14, including:

Essential Characteristics of Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhoods (Paper and Slides)
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR

Enabling the Urban Village (Slides)
George Ferguson, Bristol, UK

How Walkable Neighborhoods Revive, Evolve, and Improve (Slides)
Philip Langdon, New Haven, CT, USA

Designing New 10-Minute Neighborhoods in Russia (Slides)
Maxim Atayants, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA

$90.00

#107 Public Places for Sustainable Health

Number of presentations - 8, including:

Public Places and Public Health, (Slides)
Richard J. Jackson, Los Angeles, CA

Health and Urban Policies: Multiple Threads to Interconnect City and Health, (Paper & Slides)
Marco Akerman, São Paulo, Brazil

Interactions Between Public Health and Toronto’s Urban Fabric, (Paper & Slides)
Leila M. Farah & Florian Mayer, Toronto, Canada

$70.00

#103 Respecting the DNA of the City

Number of presentations – 6, including:

A Living Laboratory for Studying Italian Hilltowns, (Paper and Slides)
David M. Boyd, Seattle, WA, USA

From Heritage to Living Language: Learning from Historical Settlements (Paper)
Jacopo Benedetti, Rome, ITALY

Challenging the Coded Dimension of Urban Form: Interventions of the Kuwaiti Building Code on Urban Form Performance, (Paper and Slides)
Saud AlKhaled, Tempe, AZ, USA

$65.00

#102 Public Places and Quality of Life

Number of presentations – 8, including:

The Return of the Piazza, (Slides)
Fabio Paoletti, Urbino, ITALY

Rethinking How Built Environments Influence Subjective Well-being, (Paper and Slides)
Kostas Mouratidis, Ås, NORWAY

A Vision for Shelton Square, Buffalo, NY: Urban Design for the Common Good to Re-Energize the Historic Downtown Square, (Paper and Slides)
Hiro Hata, Buffalo, NY, USA

$75.00

#101 Community-Led City and Neighborhood Planning

Number of presentations – 8, including:

Rebuilding Baltimore Neighborhoods on the Community's Terms, (Paper and Slides)
Jack Sullivan, College Park, MD, USA

Building a Sustainable and Equitable City: One Neighborhood at a Time, (Paper and Slides)
Kathleen M. Galvin, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Defining Inequalities and Taking Collective Action, (Slides)
Joan Devlin, Belfast, IRELAND

$75.00

#100 Healthy Environments

Number of presentations – 12, including:

Urban Development and Health: How the Microenvironmental Niche Increases Cancer Risk, (Slides)
Mariano Bizzarri, Rome, ITALY

Urban Design through Neuroergomics, (Slides)
Stefano Serafini, Rome, ITALY

Brownfield Redevelopment and Health Impact Assessment: A Model for Success, (Paper and Slides)
Bridget Kerner, Washington DC, USA

$85.00

#98. Design Matters

Number of presentations - 7

Caring for Our Common Home, (Paper, Slides & Video) Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR, USA

Design Matters, (Slides & Video) Ferdinand S. Johns, Oak Harbor, WA, USA
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How Can One Regenerate A Degraded District?, (Paper, Slides & Video) Ettore Maria Mazzola, Rome, ITALY

$70.00

#96 New Urban Neighborhoods

Number of presentations – 5, including:

Redesigning a Dysfunctional Neighborhood to be Healthy (Paper, Slides, and Video)
Ettore Mazzola, Architect & Urbanist, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Rome, ITALY.

Poundbury, a Sustainable New Urban Settlement (Slides and Video)
Simon Conibear, Development Manager, Duchy of Cornwall, Poundbury, UK.

HAB Housing (Slides and Video)
Kevin McCloud, MBE, HAB Housing, Bristol, UK

$40.00

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"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

Documentation Sets

8 new sets available:

#58 Health and the Built Environment
#59 Strategies for Healthy, Child-Friendly Communities
#60 Children and the Urban Environment
#61 Healthy Transportation, Planning and Livable Streets
#62 Children and Nature
#63 Nature and the Sustainable City
#64 Children and Youth Participate in Planning
#65 Planning and Urban Design Challenges

Image Sets

IMCL Image sets illustrate essential features of livable cities, selected from the IMCL Council’s extensive image library.

Genius of the European Square

“No one has studied the European square more thoughtfully and thoroughly than Suzanne and Henry Lennard.”

Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Mayor, City of Charleston, SC

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Urban Design

#110 Healthy Green Urbanism

#109 Transformations To Create The City Of Short Distances

#108 Defining Healthy 10-Minute Neighborhoods

#107 Public Places for Sustainable Health

#103 Respecting the DNA of the City

#102 Public Places and Quality of Life

#101 Community-Led City and Neighborhood Planning

#100 Healthy Environments

#98. Design Matters

#96 New Urban Neighborhoods

Are you looking for a speaker?

The Forgotten Child

Documentation Sets

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