Interested in Smart Urban Environments? Sign up for the Urban Design Forum on 3/16-17

NC State University College of Design/City of Raleigh Planning Department
Urban Design Forum

Design for Children, Families and Nature in the City
March 16 | Marbles Kids Museum

With the theme of parks, pathways and meaningful destinations, the 5th annual Growing in Place Symposium, organized by the Natural Learning Initiative, will focus on urban landscape planning and design policies needed to facilitate independent mobility of children, including strategies for pedestrian and bicycle routes. Presenters include Dee Merriam, FASLA, a landscape architect working on health issues with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Charles Flink, FASLA, an internationally-known greenway designer. Robin Moore, the director of NC State’s Natural Learning Initiative, and Paul Gobster, Ph.D., co-editor of in chief of “Landscape and Urban Planning.”

Urban Reset: Green. Smart. Just.
March 17 | Raleigh Convention Center

Want to hear about green strategies from Portland’s planning director? Interested in what the editor of “Intelligent Cities” and the company behind the technology of Songdo can tell us about smart urban environments? Curious about how some European communities have achieved carbon neutrality? Wondering how social justice can fit into sustainability efforts? Join us! The 9th annual urban design conference will focus on what we should be doing to design our cities to be more carbon neutral, technologically advanced, and socially equitable, challenging participants to lead us toward becoming a truly world class region. Speakers include Susan Anderson, City of Portland; Simon Atkinson, UT-Austin; Jerome Chou, Design Trust for Public Space; Don Edwards, Justice & Sustainabilty Associates; Adam Goldberg, Cisco; and Susan Piedmont-Palladino, National Building Museum. Moderated by Jess Zimbabwe, ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use and joined by Mitchell Silver, AICP, President, American Planning Association and Planning Director, City of Raleigh.

Register for one or both programs. Links to registration from conference web pages.
Sponsorships available. Contact Jean Marie Livaudais: jm_livaudais@ncsu.edu