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July 2004 |
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Join Us in Salt Lake City, November 10-12, 2004
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 The next National Forum on Regional Stewardship will be held November 10-12, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Salt Lake City Forum, to be presented in cooperation with the Coalition for Utah's Future, sponsor of Envision Utah, will highlight participatory planning for smart growth and the importance of engaging the media in outreach to the public on regional initiatives, among other topics. Salt Lake City will feature an expanded Wednesday program, consisting of a tour of the region's Gateway project, which demonstrates mixed-use, transit-oriented brownfield redevelopment, and an optional dinner excursion to Park City with structured, en route presentations on Utah history, regional high-tech industrial clusters, state political trends, and more. Other highlights will include workshops on new ARS monographs addressing Livable Community, Regional Business-Led Civic Organizations and Regional Indicators Projects. The program currently is under development-more details will be announced in this newsletter during the coming months. For more information on the upcoming National Forum on Regional Stewardship in Salt Lake City, contact Amy Carrier, Alliance Manager, at or via e-mail at . |
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Academy Roundtable and Creative Class Discussion Offer Insights
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Austin Forum Notes Available; Plans Underway for Statewide Florida Academies
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 The John W. Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship provides technical assistance to regions that want to connect regional leaders to national best practices. While Academies are designed to address specific regional issues, they follow an Academy process focused on diagnosing challenges and opportunities, identifying appropriate best practices, and developing a collaborative regional strategy by working with a regional stewardship team. Regional action initiated through Gardner Academies was discussed in detail at the most recent National Forum on Regional Stewardship in Austin. (Click on the button below to download an Adobe Acrobat-compatible version of notes from the roundtable and a session on attracting and retaining talent and the creative class.) Additionally, several regions in Florida have expressed interest in starting Academies. For more information on the Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship, or if you are interested in initiating a project, contact either Doug Henton, Academy Coordinator, at or John Parr, President and CEO of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, at (please include a reference to the Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship in the subject line).[FULL ARTICLE] [DOWNLOAD FORUM NOTES] |
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Engaging Philanthropy in the Stewardship Movement
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 The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) is an active resource and focal point for foundations, nonprofit organizations and other partners working to solve the environmental, social and economic problems caused by suburban sprawl and central-city disinvestment. TFN informs funders of critical policy and grassroots developments; enables program staff to share effective strategies and tools; builds the capacity of key constituencies to promote smart growth and livable communities; and raises awareness about the interdisciplinary nature of these issues and the need for sustained engagement by a diverse coalition of funders. Benjamin Starrett is the Executive Director of the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. For more information, visit the website www.fundersnetwork.org.[FULL ARTICLE] |
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Creative City Summit Set for Sept. 8-9, 2004, St. Petersburg, Florida
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Real-World Strategies for Nurturing Creative Economies
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 The age of the creative economy has arrived, with serious implications for how public and private sector leaders conceive of economic development, urban planning, community development, society and culture. How to do it? The Creative City Summit is a full-day conference that focuses on understanding and putting creative economy theories into practice. Opening on the evening of Wednesday, September 8, 2004 with a reception at St. Petersburg's Salvador Dali Museum and continuing the next day with a series of sessions and keynote speeches, the meeting will emphasize metrics and tangible return on investment to make a strong business case for implementing creative economy strategies. For more information, visit the website www.creativecitiessummit.com.[FULL ARTICLE] |
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Available Now from Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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 The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, an operating foundation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducts research and technical assistance projects domestically and internationally to ensure equitable, progressive and environmentally and economically sustainable land use and development. The Institute also publishes widely on its field experience and commissioned research. Listed below are a number of recent titles from the Lincoln catalog of potential interest to regional stewards. (Click on the links to order or obtain more information.) |
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Smart Growth: Form and Consequences |
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Editors: Terry S. Szold and Armando Carbonell |
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 What smart growth is and how it should direct our future planning and development remain confusing to many observers. Whether one sees smart growth as a slogan, a catch phrase, a call to the barricades or perhaps even the battle flag waved by the enemy, it raises many questions that we need to answer. The eclectic and wide-ranging essays in this book take the reader through the historical and present-day contexts in which the debate has been shaped and influenced. (2002. $25.00, 210 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-151-4) http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=249.
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Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth |
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Editor: Gerrit J. Knaap |
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 The fundamental debate about urban growth--no growth, slow growth, go growth--will never be resolved, but there is general agreement that it will occur, that it needs some type of management and that such management requires public policies. This book is motivated by the belief that measures such as the type, location, amount and rate of urban growth can be assembled, monitored and analyzed to gain a better understanding of urban growth processes and growth management policy. The chapter authors offer considerable insight into the practice of land market monitoring--an important and emerging subfield of urban growth management. (2001. $20.00, 384 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-145-X) http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=51.
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Urban-Suburban Interdependencies |
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Editors: Rosalind Greenstein and Wim Wiewel |
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 By looking at issues such as economic interdependencies, global competitiveness and intergovernmental relationships, this book demonstrates how cities and their suburbs are dependent on each other and addresses possible avenues for the construction of effective regional policies. This volume captures work by policy analysts and researchers in urban and regional planning, political science, economics, and related fields. (2000. $18.00, 204 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-139-5) http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=45. |
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Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism |
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Authors: Douglas Porter and Allan D. Wallis |
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 A growing number of urban challenges call for action at a regional scale, but regions in the United States largely lack governance capacity to formulate and execute plans to respond to these challenges. Some recent experiments have aimed at developing governance capacity by augmenting existing government institutions. But more often they involve interest groups from multiple sectors--public, private and nonprofit--operating in loose-knit, collaborative relations. (2002. $14.00, 36 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-154-9) http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=705. |
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Regionalism on Purpose |
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Author: Kathryn A. Foster |
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 In the past decade, interest in and experience with U.S. metropolitan regionalism have mushroomed as public officials, civic leaders and metropolitan residents seek to address complicated regional problems, including urban sprawl and inequities in housing, education and tax capacity. However, the task of brokering tradeoffs and crafting a regional vision and agenda, and delivering regional services efficiently and equitably, challenges most metropolitan leaders. Case studies in this publication illuminate the challenges as the highlighted communities pursue regional agendas (2001. $14.00, 44 pages, paperback. ISBN 1-55844-148-4) http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=53.
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'Green' Sounds Great-But is it Affordable? |
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 Green buildings sound great. But can we afford them? The benefits are impressive. Building green means seeking out solar or other renewable power sources, utilizing smart architectural design to maximize natural sunlight and ventilation, and selecting recycled and nontoxic construction materials. If we ever hope to have less energy dependence in America, buildings must be a big part of the deal. The country has 5 million commercial structures, 76 million residential. They account for two-fifths of total national energy use. And we keep building them at a furious pace-an estimated 38 million new buildings by the end of this decade.[FULL ARTICLE] |
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The Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California at Santa Cruz recently released Community Building, Community Bridging: Linking Neighborhood Improvement Initiatives and the New Regionalism in the San Francisco Bay Area, which reports on the Center's experience working with three neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area to link local community development strategies with regional dynamics and opportunities. Written by Manuel Pastor, Jr. and colleagues, Community Building, Community Bridging suggests that there is much to be gained from a regional prism on local development but that there are also significant challenges-the approach may stumble as well as succeed in the absence of visionary leadership, community-to-community learning, and a focus on building alliances and changing policy.
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