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Trailblazers Series

 Dowell Myers

“Demographic change is very slow and happens one year at a time. But it gets concentrated and bunched up whenever there is an economic recession… the most abrupt [demographic] change will be on the recovery side, and I will be very curious to see what developers put forth over the next five years.”




Henry Cisneros

Hear from former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros about pressing issues in land use, his work at CityView, his fascinating political career, and much more in this first edition of our Trailblazers Podcast series.






Pat MulroyPat Mulroy

This podcast features a speech by Pat Mulroy, General Manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, delivered at ULI Nevada’s “Second Annual Water Summit” on February 18, 2009. She describes what it will take to achieve water sustainability for the Las Vegas region given the pressures of rapid population growth and global climate change.






GB Arrington

This podcast features a speech by GB Arrington, Vice President and Principal Practice Leader with PB Placemaking. GB was a keynote speaker at an Innovations Workshop called “Building a Sustainable Region with Vibrant Transit Neighborhoods”, which was held by the ULI Center for Balanced Development in the West in partnership with ULI Seattle during June 2009. View Slideshow (PDF)
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Innovations Workshops
A New Vision for Edge Development in the West 
The ULI Center for Balanced Development in the West hosted an intensive two-day workshop in September 2008 which brough 60 leading western developers, designers, sustainability experts, and climate researchers to Scottsdale, Arizona. The ULI Center for Balanced Development in the West convened this workshop to address edge development in light of the significant and mounting challenges of global climate change, volatility in the energy markets, continued population growth, and shifting market and economic conditions.

The Future of Edge Development Presentations by Joel Kotkin and Chris Nelson
Presentations by Dr. Arthur "Chris" Nelson and Joel Kotkin at the ULI Center for Balanced Development in the West Innovations Workshop, "A New Vision for Edge Development in the West."

Adapting to Climate Change in the West
The international scientific community has amassed enough evidence to conclude without equivocation that global climate change is being caused by human activity. Two presenters at the workshop reported that the impacts of climate change on the western United States, in particular the Southwest, will be more severe than other parts of the nation and, indeed, the world.

Environmental Solutions Low Tech to High Tech
A panel discussion explored design solutions, ranging from low tech to high tech, which lead to more sustainable edge development. James van Hemert, Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, described low-tech planning solutions.

Green Communities Past, Present, and Future
According to Jim Heid, Founder of UrbanGreen, the green community movement has undergone four major evolutions from 1985 through the present. Each generation of green communities offers important lessons for today in creating sustainable edge development.

Final Team Presentations
Four multidisciplinary teams participated in a workshop to consider new, sustainable, directions for edge development in the West. Starting with the assumption that edge development will remain popular into the foreseeable future, their charge was to explore opportunities for creating a new model of edge development that is more sustainable than “business as usual.” The workshop resulted in four unique visions for the future of edge development in California, Cascadia, the Desert Southwest, and the Intermountain West.



 



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