MidTown Inc and CSG Present: Jeff Speck 11.10.2010

Two hundred elected officials, City employees, architects, builders, developers, engineers, realtors, bankers, CSU students, and other community leaders filled the Trade Center Dining Gallery (at 7:30 a.m.!) to hear for The Livable City: Community Revitalization the Smart Growth Way, the sixth presentation in MidTown, Inc.'s Community Speaker Series. The breakfast program was co-sponsored by the Coalition for Sound Growth.

Jeff Speck is a city planner and architectural designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he oversaw the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design, a federal program that helps state governors fight suburban sprawl. Prior to joining the Endowment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., a leading practitioner of the New Urbanism, where he led or managed more than forty of the firm's projects. He is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as the just-released Smart Growth Manual. He serves as a Contributing Editor to Metropolis Magazine, and on the Sustainability Task Force of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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