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MARCH 2003
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Joan Riehm to Keynote at Stewardship Forum!
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Register Now for St. Louis Stewardship Forum
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 MetroLouisville Deputy Mayor Joan Riehm will address participants in the next National Stewardship Forum on Friday, May 16th, reflecting on the successful effort of the greater Louisville community to achieve the nations first major city-county consolidation in 30 years. Ms. Riehms Friday morning keynote presentation will follow a packed program on Thursday, including a case study on cross-sector collaboration in metropolitan St. Louis, a panel discussion among recently published authors on the topic of regionalism, as well as interactive workshops addressing metropolitan community development partnerships, the design of regional indicator projects, the role of foundations in promoting smart growth and other regional action, and the impact of federal policies on metropolitan regions. Thursdays program will conclude with a cocktail reception at the Regional Growth Associations Collaborative Center generously sponsored by the Bank of America. Other highlights of Fridays agenda include participant-designed Peer-to-Peer Group sessions, followed by special afternoon meetings on stewardship training, partnerships for community development and place-based stewardship. For more information, or to register, click on the button below.
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| May Stewardship Forum Will Showcase Unique Venue |
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Freshly Renovated Hotel Anchors St. Louis Convention District
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 Participants in the Alliances next National Stewardship Forum will be among the first guests of St. Louis newly renovated Renaissance Grand Hotel, a 1917-vintage property that re-opened in mid-February following a $267 million facelift begun in 2000. The improvements, which included a historically compatible addition, increased the hotels room count to 918, including 42 suites. The building, originally known as the Statler Hotel, had sat vacant for 13 years due to fire damage. Today, however, the structure sports freshly restored terra cotta details and ornamental plasterwork, a three-story atrium with repaired milkglass skylight, and a ballroom with replicated crystal chandeliers. In addition, a new ballroom facility, joined to the hotel by an underground concourse, includes over 30,000 square feet of function and meeting space. The renovation/expansion project was part of a concerted effort to enhance the citys appeal to convention planners, which has increased its supply of downtown hotel rooms by 67 percent, or 2,000 rooms, since 2000. Special Stewardship Forum room rates at the Renaissance Grand Hotel have been negotiated at $99/night, single or double occupancy and $109/night, triple and quadruple occupancy. Call to reserve rooms.
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Regional Innovators Respond to Call for Alliance Support
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Thanks to Our Early Joiners
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 Welcome and thank-you to those organizations and individuals who recognized the ample benefits of formal participation in the Alliances network of regional practitioners and theorists. These benefits include free or discounted Stewardship Forum registration, complimentary copies of Alliance publications, and access to specialized advisory services. Our roster of early joiners includes David S. Boyd, St. Louis, Missouri; Capitol Region Partnership, Hartford, Connecticut; Citistates Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Gateway Cities Partnership, Long Beach, California; E. Terrence Jones, St. Louis Missouri; and Helen Whyte, Rutland, Vermont. Thanks to one and all! For more information on becoming a Regional Steward, click on the button below.
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Regional News and Events
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OPINION: Homeland Security: As War Looms, What Now?
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| By Neal R. Peirce |
(NOTE: This editorial was prepared prior to the commencement of hostilities in Iraq on March 20, 2003.)
The nations cities are bitter that their homeland security needs received just $1.2 billion in Congress 2003 budget. Theyre urging an immediate $4 billion supplemental appropriation. And they see a kind of fiscal shell game in the administrations fiscal year 2004 budget, which purports to spend $3.5 billion for homeland defense but actually reduces overall federal law-enforcement and disaster-relief recovery funds very sharply.
The countrys municipal officials are, to put it mildly, feeling on the outs and very unhappy about it.
Just consider what they propose. To pull the country out of its economic slump, they favor $75 billion in short-term stimulus measures, including $10 billion in extended jobless benefits and a $65 billion one-time tax rebate helpful mostly to low- and middle-income families. Theyd have Washington shell out $20 billion for first responder training and special infrastructure projectswater systems, law enforcement and transportation.
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Regional Profile
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Great Cities Institute, Chicago, Illionois
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 In profile is the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Great Cities Institute was established with the mission of bringing together public, private and nonprofit sector leaders to develop effective partnerships for strategic community building. As stewards of place, universities are key to organizing and supporting community-based collaborations and conducting applied urban research. By gathering, disseminating and applying interdisciplinary knowledge, the Institute works to improve the quality of life in metropolitan Chicago and other national and international urban areas (see http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci).
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| Publications and Media |
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European Spatial Planning
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| New Publication from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
 As regional stewards, we work across boundaries of jurisdiction, sector, and discipline to create opportunities for our regions. In this new publication from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Andreas Faludi describes how European planners are doing just that. They are learning how to develop new forms of regional planning. In the epilogue to Andreas Faludi's compilation, Robert Yaro, Alliance board member and executive director of the New York Regional Plan Association, discusses the implications of European spatial planning. Essentially, writes Robert Yaro, our largest competitor in the global economy is now utilizing planning to advance its economic and transportation advantages, improve its quality of life and reduce inequalities between its regions. This publication offers examples for North American planners and regional stewards on how they can successfully work across multiple jurisdictional lines. To order the report, go to www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=711.
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