Walkable Communities: Achieving Community Goals Through Strategic Community Design
Join Dan Burden Live & On-Line
September 11, 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern, 12:00-1:30PM Pacific
See Dan's amazing bio below.
This interactive session on walkability, sustainability and prosperous communities will take participants back in time to where communities in history were laid out to be efficient, socially engaging, lively, dynamic centers. The towns we love best were laid
out in similar ways, around the human foot.
Dan Burden, a senior urban designer with Glatting Jackson and co-founder of
Walkable Communities Inc., will take participants through a highly visual look
at the definition and nature of small, medium-sized and large walkable neighborhoods, towns and cities.
Dan will show us a prosperity model that can boost home values $30,000 - $180,000 per property if the neighborhood is correctly built
to honor town making principles.
Critical principles will be laid out, enriched
with pertinent details and examples. Once
the foundation is built for walkability -- using strategically chosen patterns, measures and techniques -- Dan will then provide four case studies ... from small towns to mall-to-town conversions to how issues are dealt with in large regions.
These "best case" studies will represent all regions of the U.S. There is something here
for everyone: developers, bankers, realtors, elected leaders, community planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers, local regulators, tourism and economic development officials, the health community
... and still others.
The presentation will be followed by a 15-20 minute Question & Answer session. Links will also be provided for graphically rich documentation, readings and follow-up.
To register, go to the On-Line Learning Academy tab at left and scroll to bottom of page. Look for PayPal button under Communities track.
Note: Continuing education credits have been applied for and are pending with AICP, to be announced shortly.
About Dan:
Dan Burden, Principal and Senior Urban Designer with the Glatting Jackson firm in Orlando, FL, is a long-time national leader on the subject of this program. Further details on his background follow...
Dan Burden is a nationally recognized authority on bicycle and pedestrian facilities and programs, livable communities, complete streets, traffic calming, and other design and planning elements that affect roadway environments.
Time Magazine recently listed Dan as “one of the six most important civic innovators in the world.” The Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Sciences) honored Dan by making him their Distinguished Lecturer in 2001; the national Smart Growth Coalition awarded Dan its first “Lifetime Achievement Award” ; and the League of American Bicyclists lists Dan as “one of the 25 most significant leaders in bicycling for the past 100 years.” In 2009, Men’s Health Best Life included an article on Walkable Communities and Dan Burden and an article with Reader’s Digest on Dan’s work in Hamburg, New York, is forthcoming.
Experience: Dan has thirty years of experience in the livable communities field. He served for 16 years as Florida DOT’s first State Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator. This program became a model for other statewide programs. In 1996, Dan founded Walkable Communities. This nonprofit group has been assisting North American communities to become more walkable. Then in 2005, Dan and Walkable Communities joined Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., where Dan now works as a Principal and Senior Urban Designer. Glatting Jackson is a firm recognized for its excellence in livable communities design and innovative urban transportation planning and design services.
Method: In the past 11 years, Dan has personally photographed and examined walking, bicycling and transportation conditions in over 2,500 cities in the U.S. and abroad. He worked as a bicycle consultant in China for the United Nations, in 1994, and he has also worked in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean and many European countries. His pictures have been published in such diverse publications as National Geographic, New York Times, Better Homes and Gardens, Sierra Club and Weekly Reader. Presentations given by Dan are always richly illustrated with examples from near and far. Dan’s visual, information-rich workshops, with National Geographic quality images, showcase the most modern and best ways to plan and design better streets, town centers, and neighborhoods. Today, many state and national organizations select Dan as either a featured or keynote speaker for their annual conferences.
Goal: Dan uses his experience and photography to teach people to speak one common language; his goal is to bring many professions closer together, to retool and rebuild for present and future living. Common professions and groups that learn to speak one universal community-building language include the following: engineers, planners, health department officials, developers, architects, advocates, historic preservationists, and landscape architects. Designs that incorporate this process lead to highly engaging activity centers, prosperous business districts, quiet, pleasant, well connected neighborhoods, great waterfronts, and parks, trails and open spaces with an emphasis on people, placemaking and active living.