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| Retrofitting and Planning Sustainable suburbs | detailed conference agenda |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:15 am |
Opening Comments from the Chair
Pino Di Mascio,
Partner,
Urban Strategies |
| 8:30 am |
Keynote
Retrofitting Suburbs: How Best to Urbanize Suburbs and Increase Their Sustainability
The rise of New Urbanism has shed light on how many of the suburban planning practices currently employed cannot be sustainable. With loss of farmland, wildlife habitat, and the health of a suburban population dependent on their automobile for the most basic needs, a few brave cities and towns are trying to reverse 50 years of destructive planning. Hear:
 How cities are beginning to reclaim the streets and create an urban “feel”
How progressive cities are not only checking sprawl, but reversing it
What the future of suburbanism might look like
Gain valuable insight into the future of suburban sustainability in your community.
 Ellen Dunham-Jones,
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Author, Retrofitting Suburbia
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| 9:15 am |
Design Case Study: Single Family Homes
Sustainable Urbanism and New Alternatives for the Single Family Home
Some planners and thinkers do imagine a world in which the traditional suburb disappears, viewing it as unsustainable. Yet buyers continue to prefer single-family homes. How to marry these seemly contradictory views of the suburbs can be a challenge, but there may be an alternative.
Analyze how innovate designs are making single family homes possible on smaller footprints
Consider how good design principals can provide a win-win for buyers and municipalities alike
See how one community is implementing these concepts
Understand how design options can provide sustainable singlefamily units in your suburbs.
 David Sisam,
Principal,
Montgomery Sisam |
 Santiago Kunzle,
Principal,
Montgomery Sisam |
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| 10:00 am |
Networking Break
Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. |
| 10:30 am |
Case Study: Southlands, BC
Incorporating Agriculture into the Urban Form to Provide more Sustainable Development
Agricultural Urbanism is a new, cohesively designed, sustainable community type that intensifies agricultural activity throughout all different levels of urbanism, from the most rural lands to the most urban environments, creating concentrated growth and increased food production. By concentrating development, land can be liberated for agricultural uses.
How can agricultural urbanism ensure sustainable agriculture within the master plan and urban architecture?
Consider how intensification of agricultural activity can be applied to every level of urbanism
Examine how agricultural urbanism is taking shape in Southlands now as well as in other communities in North America
Learn how you can implement agricultural urbanism in your community and provide alternatives to single-use suburban developments.
 Marina Khoury,
Partner, Director of Town Planning,
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
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| 11:15 am |
Save Our Suburbs
Building and planning Sustainable Suburban Communities that will Meet the Needs of Residents
Suburban planners and suburban residents often have differing views of how best to plan developments. Both parties are interested in protecting the environment and maintaining longterm
community sustainability, but how to achieve this is often fraught with challenges on both sides. In Australia, Save Our Suburbs was formed to protect suburban lifestyles, and has seen increasing numbers of backers. Some of the topics discussed include:
How best to engage local residents to minimize confrontations
Why more decision making power should be from within the community
How to end forced urbanization on suburban communities
Should suburbs be treated as heritage sites to be protected
Gain a better understanding of the goals of suburban residents.
 Tony Recsei,
President,
Save Our Suburbs (Australia) |
| 12:00 pm |
Networking Luncheon
Join the conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon. |
| 1:30 pm |
TOD Case Study: Carrollton, TX
Using Rail and Public Transit as a Catalyst for Growth and Sustainability
Carrollton is only 14 miles from Dallas, but it remained an auto dependent suburb. With a new project underway to link Carrollton to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit network, a new transit-oriented community is to emerge.
What elements had to be in place to secure the project’s success?
How did the city fund the project?
What are the future expectations?
Gain a better awareness of how TOD can be better implemented in your suburban communities.
 Peter Braster,
Transit Oriented Development Manager,
City of Carrollton, TX
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| 2:15 pm |
Case Studies: Vaughan, Markham, Kingston, Collingwood, and MORE!
Suburbs and Sustainable Planning: A Comparative Analysis of Suburban Sustainability to Measure Implementation Successes
Communities receiving Federal Gas Tax funds must plan for sustainability – either as a part of their official plans or through the development of integrated community sustainability plans (ICSPs). This requirement is driving innovative thinking about how suburbs can become more sustainable. Considering several standards, learn how sustainability planning:
Improves transit oriented design
Encourages mixed use and achieves increased density in line with Places to Grow
Reduces the ecological footprint of suburbs
Helps or hinders a desired outcome
Listen to lessons learned to understand what to and what not to do better.
Don Grant,
Senior Consultant, Sustainability,
Stantec
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| 3:00 pm |
Networking Break
Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. |
| 3:30 pm |
Suburban Retrofit Case Study: Don Mills, ON
Urbanizing Older Suburbs to be Pedestrian Friendly and Mixed-use Communities
Don Mills is Canada’s first planned suburb, but as time passed, it became tired and in need of a major transformation. Now, in order to turn this community into a more sustainable “urban village,” a major retrofit has begun to take place.
Assess the role of private developers in creating large-scale suburban change
Learn how design elements were chosen to maximize pedestrianization in a car-based community
Understand the long-term plans that are reshaping Canada’s oldest suburb
Learn how you can repeat Don Mill’s success in your city.
 Dave Moore,
Partner,
pellow + associates architects |
 Ralph Giannone,
Partner,
Giannone Petricone Associates |
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| 4:15 pm |
Exclusive Interactive Problem Solving Session
Peer-to-Peer Brainstorming Session: What Are The Challenges Facing Sustainable Suburban Development And How Do We Overcome Them?
The perspectives and experiences of individual delegates will be brought together for this exclusive exchange on strategies that have worked, and some that haven’t. Conference delegates will focus on the problem:
How do you build an action plan to ensure sustainable suburbs succeed?
One person from each table will be nominated to share their findings from their group. A moderated exchange will highlight your challenges and present practical solutions from your peers.
Learn valuable insight from your peers in this unique, interactive session.
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| 5:00 pm |
Conference Adjourns to Day Two |
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Evening Social Activities
Network with industry leaders and stakeholders while enjoying some of the best Toronto has to offer. Start by joining fellow delegates and speakers for complimentary appetizers at our “exclusive” end-of-day gathering. Meet in the hotel lounge.* |
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| 7:30 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:15 am |
Opening Comments from the Chair
Antonio Gomez-Palacio,
Partner,
Office for Urbanism
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| 8:30 am |
The Changing Suburban Form: How Did We Get Here, and Where are We Going?
Suburban communities have existed for some time, and have enjoyed a great deal of success in the 20th Century. Now, this success is bringing their future under review, with many thinkers arguing that traditional suburbs are no longer sustainable in the long term.
How has the suburb evolved into its present form
Where are the opportunities for urban suburbs, and how can they be realized?
How can reliably sustainable practices be applied to new communities?
Improve your understanding of how suburbs have evolved, how they will continue to evolve, and how to better plan your community.
 Daniel Leeming,
Partner,
The Planning Partnership |
| 9:15 am |
Transit Case Study: Charlotte, NC
Solutions for Controlling Sprawl by Increasing Public Transit Options
Charlotte is one of the fasting growing US cities, with most of that growth having occurred in the suburbs. In an attempt to decrease their reliance on the car, Charlotte has planned for five new transit lines to serve its suburban communities.
• Learn how Charlotte was able to secure financing for this ambitious project
• Discuss how land use and infrastructure planning is reducing car dependency
• Analyze the public’s reaction to public transit and highdensity nodes
Understand how your city can reverse the trend to car-dependent sprawl.
Paul Moore,
Transportation Planner,
Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Atlanta, GA
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| 10:00 am |
Networking Break
Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. |
| 10:30 am |
Large-scale Transformation Case Study: Mississauga, ON
From Car to Transit: Retrofitting a Large City to Become Less Car Dependent
With over 729,000 residents, and the Canadian headquarters for over 60 Fortune 500 companies, Mississauga has grown well beyond the days of being a Toronto suburb. Originally designed for easy commuting, Mississauga is moving toward becoming more pedestrian and transit friendly. With a new master plan underway, hear how Mississauga is:
Increasing transit options for residents
Infilling suburban areas to build density and increase walkability
Working with the community to create a more liveable city
Understand how large-scale, suburban transformations can take place in your community.
 Jennifer Keesmaat,
Partner,
Office for Urbanism |
| 11:15 am |
The Exurb Dilemma: How can they be repaired, or should they?
As sprawl moves ever further afield, gobbling up farmland, and relying solely on new highways to connect them to employment and services, their sustainability comes into question. With oil poised to increase and transportation costs eating up more than can be saved in exurb housing prices, the collapse of many communities becomes a considerable possibility.
Analyze the past and current trends in exurb development
Discuss how many exurb communities are already showing signs of depopulation
Create a strategy for preventing and/or avoiding exurb/ suburb deterioration
How you can respond to the valuable insight through analyzing current trends.
 John Wasik,
Author,
Cul-de-sac Syndrome, Chicago, IL |
| 12:00 pm |
Networking Luncheon
Join the conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing luncheon. |
| 1:30 pm |
TOD Case Study: MetroWest, VA
How One Transit-oriented Development is Improving the Community’s Quality of Life in Measurable Ways
Consolidating housing lots to retrofit a major subdivision will enable MetroWest to create a transit-oriented development in the Washington D.C. area. Calling for new housing, office and retail, the new community is becoming a walkable community with new streetscapes.
Learn how policy and zoning were implemented to ease some community objections
Analyze how the developers responded to the implementation challenges while reversing the ecological degradation
Discuss how the development will transform this community, and the positive effect on the region’s transit as a whole
Gain insight into how you can adapt MetroWest’s success in your community.
 Greg Ault,
Principal,
EDAW , Miami Beach, FL |
| 2:15 pm |
Stormwater Management Strategies That Increase Density And Sustainability
An important component of any sustainable community is ensuring that adequate environmental concerns are addressed, and that water sources remain safe. There are now new options for ensuring that stormwater is safely handled, while allowing for maximum density.
What design opportunities exist to decrease catchment areas?
How can stormwater systems be viewed as community assets, such as parks?
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| 3:00 pm |
Networking Break
Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. |
| 3:30 pm |
Case Study: Oakville, ON
Designing and Planning New Suburban Developments to Be More Sustainable
Retrofitting existing suburbs is difficult, because of the way they were initially planned. New developments are correcting this, with better zoning, including transportation, and applying green and urban strategies to new developments. Hear how Oakville:
Is creating a new, mixed-use, transit first, suburb that will be sustainable
Is incorporating high density residential areas adjacent to traditional suburbs
Addressed the challenges of neighbouring communities
Emulate the success of Oakville in your community.
 Charlie McConnell,
Manager, Long Range Planning,
City of Oakville |
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| 4:15 pm |
Conference Adjourns |
Post-Conference Workshop: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 | 9:00am ~ 12:00pm
9:00am to 10:45am: Special Site Inspection: Don Mills, ON
10:45am to 12:00pm: After our site visit, we will assemble back at the hotel for a roundtable discussion on the next steps in the process... see detail >> |
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