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Description: Developing successful retail centers is one of the more difficult aspects of New Urbanism, where many planned centers fail to attract key retailers or to meet market performance standards. Examine successful retail design and merchandising principles and consider how they can be a... read more »

Description: A greening technique that is appropriate for T1 may not work for T5. Learn how the Transect can be used as an organizing tool to select appropriate and alternative solutions to environmental needs. Hear about projects from across the Transect and learn how your "plug-ins" contrib... read more »

Description: From a policy standpoint, there are four main approaches to affordable housing relevant to New Urbanists: Developing affordable housing using tax credits and grants; increasing affordable homeownership opportunities through programs like Habitat; encouraging resident-controlled lim... read more »

Description: A well-written Form-Based Code can insure the agreed upon community vision is what actually gets built. This session awarded and included an in-depth analysis of the 2008 Driehaus Form-Based Code winners. Listen to an audio recording of this session. Richard Bernhardt, Execu... read more »

Description: In this session, Hank Dittmar looked anew at what many call New Urbanism's Achilles' heel: making beautiful, place-appropriate buildings, the quality of our buildings. Can we improve them in spite of a housing slump? Marianne Cusato—of Katrina Cottages fame, co-author of Get You... read more »

Description: This session compared and contrasted how the LEED® - Neighborhood Development rating system and ASLA Sustainable Sites Initiative strive to encourage sustainble approaches to the way we plan and develop site infrastructure and open spaces at both macro- and micro-planning levels. ... read more »

Description: The relationship between cities and climate change seems little understood, even as the world awakens to global warming and exploding urban populations. New Urbanism must show that compact connected cities and suburbs with efficient buildings are the convenient remedy for the incon... read more »

Description: Big box retail stores, university buildings, hospital campuses, "mega-churches" and sports stadiums are all affecting development patterns within our cities, towns, neighborhoods, blocks and streets. The immense presence of these specialized building types is profound and cannot b... read more »

Description: Saturday, April 5, 2008 9:45 AM - 12:30 PM As a follow-up to the Green Council held in Alexandria, Va., this working session builds on work laid at this historic event. John Norquist presents a slideshow documenting how urbanism is a convenient remedy to climate change, resulting i... read more »

Description: The biggest challenge in a Transit-Oriented Development is getting the parking right. New national research proves what has been intuitively obvious: TODs are over-parked. Reducing parking to match actual performance has big implications for the affordability, built form, financia... read more »