The 2011 Conference on the Environment was held on March 4-5, 2011. The conference theme was Smart Growth? Environmental and Social Implications.
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2011 (Presenter David Rubin, Landscape Architect, Partner, OLIN, Philadelphia) - Recognizing that American cities are at a tipping point, Rubin seeks to change thinking…
Sustainable Design and Social Purpose
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2011 (Presenter Emil Pocock, Professor of History & American Studies, Eastern Connecticut State University) - Shopping centers have become ubiquitous icons of…
Shopping Centers and Sprawl
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2011 (Presenter Barbara Brown, Environmental Psychologist, Professor of Family & Consumer Studies, U of Utah) - Smart growth and allied movements, such as new…
Smart Growth: Residents’ Social and…
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2011 (Presenter John Hannigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto) - New ways of operating cities don’t appear spontaneously in the political…
Framing, Presenting, & Contesting Smart…
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2011 (Presenter Margaret Walls, Senior Fellow, Thomas J. Klutznick Chair, Resources for the Future) - Local communities across the United States have employed a variety…
Barriers to Smart Growth: Facing the Reality of…
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2011 (Presenter MaryAnne Borrelli, Associate Professor of Government, Connecticut College) - From the perspective of those in more humid climates, southwestern cities…
How Do You Want to Live? Where Do You Want to…
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2011 (Presenter Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College (CUNY)) - This talk assesses the equity and outcomes of growth…
What's Smart about Smart Growth? A Regional…
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2011 (Presenter Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture & Urbanism, and of American Studies, Yale University) - Can you define edge node, boomburb, tower farm, big…
A Field Guide to Sprawl
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2011 (Presenter Anthony Flint, Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy) - After a half-century of car-oriented outward expansion, environmental imperatives…
Evolving from Sprawl: The Way Forward
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2011 (Presenter Chester Arnold, Associate Director, Center for Land Use Education and Research, University of Connecticut) - The UConn Center for Land Use Education and…
Urbanization in Connecticut: Tracking its…
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2011 (Presenter Jack Nasar, Professor of City & Regional Planning, Ohio State University, Editor, Journal of Planning Literature) - “A builder is now…
The Impacts and Controls of Supersized Houses
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2011 (Presenter Frances Moore Lappé, Author and Cofounder of the Small Planet Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts) - Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food…
From Famine and Froot Loops® to Food…
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2011 (Presenter Norman Garrick, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut) - Since 1950, conventional urban transportation…
City Friendly Transportation Planning: A Pathway…
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2011 (Presenter Kevin Essington, Director of Government Relations & Communications, The Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island) - The Nature Conservancy identified the…
Using Small ‘d’ Democracy to Create…
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2011 (Presenter Julia Freedgood, Managing Director, Farmlands & Communities Initiatives, American Farmland Trust) - Over the past 25 years, 41 million acres were…
Rural Smart Growth: The Role of Local Farms &…
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