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Smart Growth Speaker Series
The Smart Growth Speaker Series is sponsored by the U.S. EPA, the National Building Museum and the Smart Growth Network. The speaker series is recognized as a leading public forum on development issues. The purpose of the series is to present a variety of approaches and tools for encouraging development that serves the economy, community and environment. It explores transportation choices, best development practices, energy and resource efficiency, architecture and design, local activism, regional approaches, land use, environmental impacts, industrial development (e.g., eco-industrial parks) as well as other topics related to smarter growth.
The Speaker Series is held once each month at the National Building Museum, 401 F Street N.W, Washington D.C. (Judiciary Square Metro). All lectures are free and registration is not required.
To get regular announcements about the Smart Growth Speaker Series, please fax or e-mail your name, organization, address, phone, fax, and e-mail address to the EPA's smart growth program at fax (202) 566-2868, e-mail Deloris Wingo-Huntley (wingo-huntley.deloris@epa.gov).
Upcoming Lectures
May 14
Grid is Good: Redeveloping Philadelphia's Riverfront
Wednesday, 12:30-1:30pm
Harris M. Steinberg, FAIA, executive director of Penn Praxis (the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design clinical outreach practice), will discuss his involvement in redeveloping a seven-mile stretch of the Philadelphia waterfront. A new civic vision has been created to return public access to the central Delaware riverfront, much of which is currently blighted, inaccessible, and/or dominated by large-scale residential and commercial projects and proposals, including two state-mandated 5,000-slot machine casinos. The key to the redevelopment strategy: extending the existing grid of the city’s streets all the way to the water. Mr. Steinberg will discuss the current vision for redevelopment and the year-long civic engagement process to achieve the vision, which involved 4,000 citizens, public officials, and private developers and led Philadelphia to re-think development practices and how to better focus future growth on people.
June 3
Tuesday, 12:30-1:30pm
EPA and NRDC's Green Infrastructure Strategy
Jennifer Molloy, of EPA's Office of Wastewater Management, and Nancy Stoner, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, will discuss their new collaborative effort to develop and implement a Green Infrastructure Strategy. This strategy, to which 40 organizations have already committed support, promotes on-site stormwater management through native plantings, sidewalk planter gardens, green roofs, and other green infrastructure elements -- all of which lead to better community design and environmental management.
July 8
Tuesday, 12:30-1:30pm
Megaregions
Petra Todorovich, director of America 2050, a national planning initiative based at the Regional Plan Association in New York, will present her organization’s research on population trends and the relevance of those findings for local and regional land use planning and investment decisions. America 2050 projects that in the next 40 years, the U.S. population will increase by nearly half from its 2000 level, 70 percent of which will live in an ever-growing number of "megaregions" across the country. Megaregions -- agglomerations of metropolitan regions linked by labor markets, infrastructure, and land use systems -- are expected to replace metropolitan regions as the new competitive unit in the global economy. Ms. Todorovich will discuss these trends and the importance of investments in infrastructure systems, including transportation networks, for energy use and climate impacts.
Please also check the National Building Museum's Calendar of Events: Lectures & Symposia 
for upcoming events.
Audio recordings of many of the Smart Growth Speaker Series lectures are available at on the Smart Growth Online Web site.