New Partners for Smart Growth
Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities
Dates: January 24-26,
2002
Location: San Diego, CA
Sponsored by the Local Government Commission and
Penn State University
The New Partners for Smart
Growth: Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities conference
was a tremendous success!
Over 950 people attended this dynamic, multidisciplinary
event, representing 40 different states and 5 different countries.
Audience demographics demonstrate the diverse constituencies
that participated, including:
- 23 high-school age youth leaders
- Over 75 local elected officials
- City/county government staff
- Public health professionals
- Transportation and engineering professionals
- Architects and landscape architects
- Planners and designers
- Law enforcement and crime prevention professionals
- Environmental professionals
- Advocates for older adults, youth and the economically disadvantaged
- Realtors and builders
- Bicycle and pedestrian advocates
- Educators and other community leaders
Agencies and organizations at the national, regional,
state and local level - all committed to furthering smart growth
principles - were present.
If you missed the conference, or weren't able to attend all the
sessions you would have liked to, audio tapes of the conference
sessions are still available! Click Here
to read more about it and to download the audio tape order form
from our Bookstore.
More details on the conference program, mobile
tours, the sponsors, the cosponsors, the speakers and the Ahwahnee
Awards Program can be found by visiting the official conference
web site at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/SmartGrowth/
For information on our plans for a 2003 national
conference, please visit the conference web site listed above. We
should have a date and location for the next conference by late
February/early March 2002.
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