Tuesday, March 1, 2011

eConference - Planning healthy and child friendly communities

1. Keynote Speakers

Activities and Events that Create Child-Friendly Communities
 Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Charleston, SC
Child- & Youth-Friendly Land Use & Transport Planning Guideline
Richard Gilbert, Toronto, CANADA
Designing Child-Friendly Communities
Perry Bigelow, Aurora, IL
Designing for Play in Nature
Robin C. Moore, Raleigh, NC
Developing Guidelines & Certification Program for Child-Friendly Communities
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR
Health Effects of the Built Environment
Richard J. Jackson, Los Angeles, CA
Planning for Bicycles & Pedestrians in Columbia, MO
Mayor Darwin Hindman, Columbia, MO
Planning for Bicycles in Germany
Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Freiburg, GERMANY
Planning Healthy & Child-Friendly Communities in Germany
Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Freiburg, GERMANY 
Strategies for Healthy, Child-Friendly Cities
Charles Royer, Seattle, WA
The Challenge
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR
Using Health Impact Assessment to Promote Healthy Community Design
Andrew Dannenberg, Atlanta, GA
Why Children Need Nature
Stephen R. Kellert, New Haven, CT
Youth & Their Built Environment
Clifford M. Johnson, Washington DC

2. Health and the Built Environment

Do Fast Food Restaurants Cluster Around High Schools?
Hilary Nixon, San Jose, CA 
Greenspace & Health: the Evidence
Dee Merriam, Atlanta, GA
How Community Organizing, Public Health, Urban Planning, and Public Policy Combine to Reduce Obesity Rates
Phil Valko, St. Louis, MO
Innovative Ways that Local Government can be a Catalyst for Building Health into Community Design
Tracy Delaney, San Diego, CA
Neighborhood Influences on the Physical Activity of Low-income, African American Children: A Qualitative Perspective
Douglas Williams, Champaign IL 
Preventing Lead Paint Exposure
Michael Weitzman, New York, NY 
Systems, Policies and Environments for Childhood Obesity Prevention
Laura K. Brennan, St. Louis, MO 
Urban Landscape Pattern & Childhood Obesity
Jun-Hyun Kim, San Luis Obispo, CA 

3. Strategies for Healthy, Child-Friendly Communities

Action, Branding & Resistance – the Role of Planners in Creating Family Friendly Cities
Mildred Warner, Ithaca, NY
Joseph Rukus, Gainesville, FL
Cities for People and Engaged Citizens. Back to the Future
Larry Keller, Cleveland, OH 
Creative Class or Procreative Class
Laura Reese, Plymouth, MI
Integrating Primary & Secondary Education with Community Life: Designing Cities of Learning
Roy Strickland, Ann Arbor, MI
Strategic Grantmaking for Child-Friendly Communities
Jeanne Scanlon, Perkasie, PA

4. Children and the Urban Environment

A Playground’s Not Enough: Playscapes as an Emerging Paradigm in Park Planning
Eleanor Luken, Cincinnati, OH 
City of Discovery
Dennis Kilper, Blacksburg, VA 
Contribution of Open Spaces to Quality of Life & Urban Sustainability: an Example from Ankara, Turkey
Bahar Gedikli, Ankara, TURKEY 
Designing the City for Play: Safe, Everyday Places for Children
Isaac Williams, College Park, MD
Catherine Stratton Treadway, College Park, MD
From the Social Game into the Big World
 Irina Pozdnyakova, Krasnoyarsk, EASTERN SIBERIA
Noisette: Crafting a Walkable New American City
John L. Knott, Jr., N. Charleston, SC
Place Making – “My Mum said I have to run around and stuff…”
Elena Kalnin, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 
Rethinking Play Provisions for Child Active Life
Lamine Mahdjoubi, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM
Valence of Urban Public Spaces: An Inquiry to Child-Friendly Neighborhoods
Felia Srinaga, Tangerang, INDONESIA
What do Children Need from Community? Social Life, Health & the Built Environment
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Portland, OR 
Yes, in My Neighborhood
Joseph Juhasz, Denver, CO
Robert Flanagan. Denver, CO

5. Healthy Transportation Planning & Livable Streets

Bicyclists, & Public Transit in Downtown Salt Lake City
Rick Phillips, Concord, CA
Child Streets
Sam Bass Warner, Cambridge, MA
Eran Ben-Joseph, Cambridge, MA
Designing an Urban Schoolyard/Public Park at Gaillard Center
Tim Keane, Charleston, SC 
Kid-Friendly TODs
Robert Cervero, Berkeley, CA
Portland’s Livability Investments: Improving a City that Works for Children
 Byron Estes, Portland, OR
Public Health, Land Use & Transit Planning
Lawrence Frank, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
Safe Routes to School
 Ian Thomas, Columbia, MO
School Location & Student Travel: Analysis of Factors Affecting Mode Choice in Three Metropolitan Areas
 Reid Ewing, Salt Lake City, UT
Sculpting Public Place from Car Space
Randy Wade, New York, NY 
The Downtown Raleigh Renaissance – Creating Livable Streets
Daniel T. Douglas, Raleigh, NC 
Where Everything is Great: Improving Mid-Size City Core Areas
Gary Sands, Plymouth, MI

6. Children & Nature

A Grassroots Effort to Renew the Schoolyard: The Learning Garden
Katie Kingery-Page, Manhattan, KS
Jon Hunt, Manhattan, KS
Asheville's K-12 School Green Retrofit Initiative
Tamara Graham, Asheville, NC 
Green ‘Edutainment’ in a Community Setting: Empowering Kids in the Natural & Built Environments
 Eileen Vandoros, Madison, WI
Natural Play & Narrative
Philip Waters, Cornwall, UNITED KINGDOM 
Nature Experience in Pre-School Outdoor Play Areas
Camilla Rice, Lincoln, NE
Nature in the Urban Environment: Sustainable Place-Based Educational Settings: Weaving Together Education, Ecology & Community
David Kamp, New York, NY 
We Grew It! Enrichment through Sustainable Gardening in Elementary School
Melissa Scott Kozak, Athens, GA
Jennifer McCreight, Athens, GA

7. Nature & the Sustainable City

Expanding the Architect’s Scope: Teaching Students the Complexity of Contemporary Urban Sites
Wendy Redfield, Raleigh, NC 
Local Food Networks as a Source of Place-Based Community
Jody Beck, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND 
Planning Nature in Underserved Urban Communities: Urban Agriculture in Detroit
Joongsub Kim, Birmingham, MI 
Revitalizing Urbanized Watersheds through Densification: A City of Fairfax Case Study
Dean R. Bork, Blacksburg, VA
Josh Franklin, Blacksburg, VA
“Killing Me Softly”: A Critical Rethinking of Municipal Natural Area Management
Mary-Ellen Tyler, Calgary, AB, CANADA

8. Children & Youth Participate in Planning

Engaging San Diego Youth to Assess Neighborhoods & Advocate for Policy/Environmental Change
Cheryl Moder, San Diego, CA 
Make Trax: Youth Leaders for Walkable Communities
Lee Candance Kokinakis, Lansing, MI
Reimagining Urban Form & Educational Reform
Kathleen M. Galvin, Charlottesville, VA 
You Want Us to do What, Where? Investing in Youth Health through the Built Environment
Patricia Manuel, Halifax, NS, CANADA 
Youth Independent Mobility & Access to Public Space
Meghan Cope, Burlington, VT 

9. Planning & Urban Design Challenges

Drivability, Walkability and Public Space: Making Dubai More Livable
Douglas Kelbaugh, Ann Arbor, MI
Form-Based Codes for Old Urbanism
Steven Heikin, Boston, MA
Green Building, Green Neighbourhoods: A Subtropical Urban Design Handbook for Planners
Rosemary Kennedy, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA
Re-envisioning the Office Park: Transition from Suburban Development to a Multi-Use Neighborhood
Onezieme Mouton, Lafayette, LA
Tom Sammons, Lafayette, LA
The Slum: Coming to a Suburb Near You?
Tom Martineau, Tallahassee, FL 
Town & Country: Speculations on a Hybrid
Ursula Emery McClure, Lafayette, LA
Michael A. McClure, Lafayette, LA
Transforming Auto-centric Communities into Walkable Neighborhoods: An Assessment of Two Neighborhoods in San Jose
George Schroeder, San Jose, CA
Waterfront Development & Revitalization in a Small Town Hurricane-Prone Louisiana
Thomas C. Sammons, Lafayette, LA
“Eco-socio” Community in the Large Postindustrial City, Krasnoyarsk
Irina V. Kukina, Krasnoyarsk, EASTERN SIBERIA 



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