Summary
Portland, Oregon
June 15-18, 2000
CNU VIII taught participants about the evolving political landscape of the New Urbanist and Smart Growth movements, and how to deal with the difficult local politics of implementing New Urbanism. By coordinating with the annual conference of Livable Oregon, CNU made this event their largest gathering to date: over 1400 people took part in the four-day event.
Plenary Speakers
CNU Update
- Shelley Poticha - Executive Director of CNU
The Double Bottom Line: Investing in California's Emerging Markets
- Philip Angelides - California State Treasurer
Addressing the Challenges of Change: Achieving Equitable Development
- Angela Glover Blackwell - PolicyLink
Portland: Ground Zero in the Livable Communities Debate
- Congressman Earl Blumenauer - U.S. House of Representatives
Civic Architecture
- Howard S. Decker - FAIA
Panel Presentations
The First Suburbs Consortium of Northeast Ohio
- David Beach
Design for Living in Vancouver
- Larry Beasley
Density by Design: How to do density well Addison Circle
- Thomas Brinck
Subjective Notions of Beauty in Greek Architecture and Urbanism
- Victor Deupi
Notes from The Politics of Strengthening Smart Growth in Maryland
- Kristen Forsyth
Legal Planning for New Urbanist Communities
- Doris S. Goldstein
In Livable Cities is the Preservation of the Wild
- Mike Houck
Nature and Cities
- Michael Hough
Democracy and Public Places in the Device-Based Culture
- Chris Hubbard
Civitas and Democracy: The role of placemaking in our current political culture
- Doug Kelbaugh - (excerpts from his book Common Place II)
Taming the Highway Through Town
- Laurence Qamar