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MAY 2003
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| Alliance Activities |
St. Louis Stewardship Forum Spawns New Affinity Groups
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Planning Underway for Next Forum, in Boston
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 Approximately 90 individuals attended the National Stewardship Forum held earlier this month in The Gateway City of St. Louis. The Alliance extends its warm thanks to all who attended, its national sponsor, Bank of America, and its regional co-sponsors and organizers, FOCUS St. Louis, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, and the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council. Of particular interest, participants in the Friday morning peer-to-peer sessions elected to start two new Affinity Groups. One group will focus on Regional Indicator Projects and the other will focus on Regional Multi-Sectoral Initiatives.
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Next National Stewardship Forum to be Held in Boston
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Save the Dates Nov. 6-7, 2003!
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 Planning is underway for the next National Stewardship Forum, to be held in Boston, Massachusetts. The dates have been set November 6-7, 2003 and a venue has been selected: the historic Parker House Hotel in downtown Boston. The November Forum will address the theme of Large-Scale Collaboration and examine the prospects of multi-state regional problem solving that acknowledges the shared problems and destiny of New Englands metropolitan areas, natural landscape and environment. Given the compactness of the host region, a sub-theme of this Forum will be the importance of seeking strategies for understanding and addressing urban neighborhood problems in the context of the broader and powerful metropolitan forces that drive them. Early Bird registration will begin soonwatch for announcements.
As for the St. Louis Forum, the Alliance is in the process of preparing a compact disk that will contain all the readings included in the original participant packet, along with the Powerpoint presentations made on site, detailed conference notes, and Louisville Metro Deputy Mayor Joan Riehms energizing keynote presentation (in the form of a Quicktime movie). Organizational and Individual Stewards will receive one free copy of the CD-ROM upon availability (additional copies $5); others may obtain copies for $10 each. Watch for an e-mail message announcing the availability of the CD.
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| News You Can Use |
National Conference to Explore Alternatives to Sprawl
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 The Boston Society of Architects, in partnership with a range of other national and regional organizations, will present Density: Myth and Reality on September 12-14, in Boston, Massachusetts. This national conference, intended for designers, planners, public officials, developers, and journalists, will challenge attendees to consider whether Americans can translate their resentment of the consequences of sprawl into a willingness to embrace density. Additionally, it will showcase facts and perspectives about building, working and living in higher-density communities. For more information, visit www.architects.org/density.
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OPINION: Londons Daring Traffic Move: Successful, But Right for Us?
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By Neal R. Peirce
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 Word of Londons congestion pricing scheme an $8 charge each day for any vehicle that video cameras spot driving in the traffic-strangled city center broke on a startled world in February. Drivers would have to register for daily use via cell phone, Internet, or at retail shops across the city. The fine for not registering: $128. Predictably, opponents saw immediate disaster if the London plan, a brainchild of the citys controversial Lord Mayor, Ken Livingstone, actually took effect. Average speeds of 3 miles an hour, said critics, would paralyze large parts of the city. The rush of new passengers would engulf the citys public transit system. The system of 700 video cameras to read license plate numbers would misfire and crash.
But Livingstone persevered, the system kicked off February 17, and now weekday traffic in the eight-square-mile central London zone has declined almost 20 percent. Result: normally clogged streets have opened up. Taxis are abundant; red double-decker buses make their rounds much more rapidly. About 100,000 people pay the toll each day; the cameras catch 3,000 or so scofflaws who then are ticketed.
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| Regional Exchange |
Regional Profile: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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 In profile is the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the University of Minnesota. The Center connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on public policy issues in Minnesota. The Center works across disciplinary lines and professional boundaries to design and implement new programs and projects. Established in 1969, CURA is celebrating its 34th anniversary. For more information, please visit the Centers website at www.cura.umn.edu.
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| Publications and Media |
REVIEW: Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism
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By Douglas R. Porter and Allan D. Wallis, Lincoln Institute, 2002, 38 pages ($14).
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 In April of 2001, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy convened a discussion group of 23 observers and practitioners of cross-sector, collaborative approaches to regional problem solving. The forum was organized to learn more about how regional governance is achieved where no single, formal institution exists to organize and carry out responses to such regional problems as sprawl, environmental degradation, social and fiscal disparity, and economic development, among others. The proceedings were distilled, summarized and packaged with illustrative case studies by Douglas Porter and Allan Wallis as Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism, a brief but informative examination of recent efforts both inventive and improvisational to address specific regional issues in ways that circumvent traditional bureaucracies and hierarchies. To order, visit www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/pub-detail.asp?id=705.
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