Keynote Speakers:
• Randall Arendt, FRTPI, Landscape/Conservation Planner, Narragansett, RI
• Perry Bigelow, Founder, President, The Bigelow Group Inc., Aurora, IL
• Robert Cervero, Professor, City & Regional Planning, Univ of Calif, Berkeley, CA
• Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH, Assoc. Dir. Nat. Center Env Health, CDC, Atlanta, GA
• Reid Ewing, Ph.D., Professor, City & Metro Planning, Univ of Utah
• Lawrence Frank, Ph.D., CIP, ASLA, Bombadier Chair in Sust Transport, Univ of British Columbia.
• Richard Gilbert, Consultant on Urban Issues, Toronto, Canada.
• Darwin Hindman, Former Mayor, City of Columbia, MO
• Richard J. Jackson, MD MPH, Professor, Chair, Dept. of Env Health Sciences, UCLA
• Cliff Johnson, Exec. Director, NLC Institute for Youth, Education & Families
• Stephen R. Kellert, Ph.D., Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Soc Ecol, Co-Dir, Hixon Ctr for Urban Ecol, Yale Sch of Forestry & Env Studies
• John L. Knott, Jr., Co-founder, President, The Noisette Company, N. Charleston, SC
• Lamine Mahdjoubi, Ph.D., Faculty Built Env, Univ of the West of England, Bristol, UK
• Robin C. Moore, Director, Nat Learning Inst, Prof of Land Arch, NC State Univ, Raleigh, NC
• Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor, City of Charleston, SC
• Charles Royer, Former Mayor of Seattle, President, Inst for Community Change, Seattle, WA
• Ian Thomas, Exec. Director, PedNet Coalition
• Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Former Governor of South Baden, Germany
Plus 70 additional presenters.

Presentations include:

Health and the Built Environment:
Health Effects of the Built Environment. Planning Healthy & Child-Friendly Communities in Germany. Strategies for Healthy, Child-Friendly Communities. Using Health Impact Assessment to Promote Healthy Community Design. Do Fast Food Restaurants Cluster Around High Schools? Greenspace & Health: the Evidence. How Community Organizing, Public Health, Urban Planning, and Public Policy Combine to Reduce Obesity Rates. Innovative Ways that Local Government can be a Catalyst for Building Health into Community Design. Neighborhood Influences on the Physical Activity of Low-income, African American Children: A Qualitative Perspective. Preventing Lead Paint Exposure. Systems, Policies and Environments for Childhood Obesity Prevention. Urban Landscape Pattern & Childhood Obesity

Healthy Transportation Planning & Livable Streets:
Planning for Bicycles in Germany. Planning for Bicycles & Pedestrians in Columbia, MO. Child- & Youth-Friendly Land Use & Transport Planning Guideline. Bicyclists, & Public Transit in Downtown Salt Lake City. Child Streets. Designing an Urban Schoolyard/Public Park. Kid-Friendly TODs. Portland's Livability Investments: Improving a City that Works for Children. Public Health, Land Use & Transit Planning. Safe Routes to School. School Location & Student Travel: Analysis of Factors Affecting Mode Choice in Three Metropolitan Areas. Sculpting Public Place from Car Space. The Downtown Raleigh Renaissance – Creating Livable Streets

Children and the Urban Environment:
City of Discovery. Contribution of Open Spaces to Quality of Life & Urban Sustainability. Designing the City for Play: Safe, Everyday Places for Children. From the Social Game into the Big World. Noisette: Crafting a Walkable New American City. Place Making – "My Mum said I have to run around and stuff ". Rethinking Play Provisions for Child Active Life. An Inquiry to Child-Friendly Neighborhoods. What do Children Need from Community? Social Life, Health & the Built Environment. Yes, in My Neighborhood

Children & Nature:
Why Children Need Nature. Designing for Play in Nature. A Playground's Not Enough: Playscapes as an Emerging Paradigm in Park Planning. A Grassroots Effort to Renew the Schoolyard: The Learning Garden. Asheville's K-12 School Green Retrofit Initiative. Natural Play & Narrative. Nature Experience in Pre-School Outdoor Play Areas. Nature in the Urban Environment: Sustainable Place-Based Educational Settings: Weaving Together Education, Ecology & Community. We Grew It! Enrichment through Sustainable Gardening in Elementary School

Children & Youth Participate in Planning:
Engaging San Diego Youth to Assess Neighborhoods & Advocate for Policy/Environmental Change. Youth Leaders for Walkable Communities. Reimagining Urban Form & Educational Reform. Investing in Youth Health through the Built Environment. Youth Independent Mobility & Access to Public Space

Planning & Urban Design Challenges:
Drivability, Walkability and Public Space: Making Dubai More Livable. Form-Based Codes for Old Urbanism. Green Building, Green Neighbourhoods: A Subtropical Urban Design Handbook for Planners. Re-envisioning the Office Park: Transition from Suburban Development to a Multi-Use Neighborhood. The Slum: Coming to a Suburb Near You? Transforming Auto-centric Communities into Walkable Neighborhoods. Waterfront Development & Revitalization in a Small Town Hurricane-Prone Louisiana.
And many more

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