Presentations, Posters and Workshops

An incredible array of workshops, papers, panels and posters, with more than 200 presenters from 7 countries, 50 organizations and 45 universities. All session take place at Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley on Friday, June 17th and Saturday June 18th.

UPDATED SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS (updated June 13)

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The following list is slighly out of date, but will give you a sense of what it in store. For the updated list, click on the UPDATED SCHEDULE.

WORKSHOPS

"Knowledge Fair: Enlightening our experiences and sharing discoveries" with Sebastiao Ferreira (MIT) and Annis Sengupta (MIT)

"Organizing for Equity in East Oakland" with Shawn Rowland (East Bay Housing Organizations), Jeremy Liu (East Bay Housing Organizations), Deborah Carney (East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation), Alexandra Desautels (Alameda County Public Health Department)

"Social Justice and Climate Change Planning" with Ayrin Zahner (UC Berkeley), Erik deKoK (City of Sacramento), Constance Slider (CORE), Emily Kirsch (Ella Baker Center)

"Racial Justice Planning: White anti-racist praxis and Critical Race Theory" with UCLA’s Maureen Purtill, Clare Fox and Cedar Landsman

"Decoding Military Landscapes" with Javier Arbona (UC Berkeley), Bryan Finoki (Subtopia), Nick Sowers (Soundscrapers)

"Planning 101 - Talking to the General Public" with Sarah Cooper (Planners Network Manitoba) and Kerniel Aasland (Planners Network Manitoba)

"Meaningful Community Engagement to Inform Decisionmaking and Ensure Social Equity" with Fern Tiger (Fern Tiger Associates), Liz Newman (Fern Tiger Associates)

Two workshops by Allen Green (ADPSR): "Good News from Ground Zero” and "Warp Speed Green Plan"

"Spectrum of Safeties: Violence and Trauma in the Public Realms" with Megan McRobert (University of New Mexico)

"URBAN ATLAS OF PERMANENT CHANGE”" with Stephen Goldsmith (University of Utah), Jill Stoner (UC Berkeley), Walter Hood (UC Berkeley)

"Creating Urban Greenspaces – Evidence-based Resources”

"Is New Ruralism Progressive? Does this matter in the context of seeking a JustMetropolis?" with Keith Pezzoli (UC San Diego), Kerry Williams (The Global ARC), and Janice Pezzoli (The Global ARC)

“Struggles for the Right to the City in the Bay Area” with Jaron Browne (POWER), Alicia Schwartz (POWER), Dawn Phillips (Causa Justa/Just Cause), and Robbie Clark (Causa Justa/Just Cause)

“Breakthrough Communities” with Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel

PANELS

"Insurgent Public Space: Creating Just Cities through Direct Citizen Actions" with Jeffrey Hou ( University of Washington), Yung-Teen Annie Chiu (Praxis University, Taiwan), Blaine Merker (Rebar), Jeannene Przyblyski (San Francisco Art Institute), Michael Rios (University of California, Davis) and James Rojas (Latino Urban Forum)

"Community Economic Development in Canada: roles, spaces, and unconventional indicators" with Molly Johnson (McGill University), Robyn Webb (University of Manitoba and Daniel MacIntyre/St. Matthews Community Association) and Carla Klassen (University of Toronto)

"Fighting for Sustainable and Equitable Communities: Frontline Reports From Five Communities of Color" with Gen Fujioka (National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development), Veronica Burt (Preserve and Benefit Historic Rondo Committee), Karoleen Feng (East Bay Local Asian Development Center), Dean Matsubayashi (Little Tokyo Service Center), Isela Gracian (East Los Angeles Community Corporation) and Malcolm Yeung (Chinatown Community Development Center)

"Strategies for Equitable Development and Sustainable Communities: the Evolving Roles of Health Indicators and Assessments in Community Planning" with Jme McLean (PolicyLink), Angelica Cabande (South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN), Erin Christensen (Mithun), and Jonathan Heller (Human Impact Partners (HIP)

"Safe Cities" with Alfonso Valenzuela (UAEM/UC Berkeley), Eduardo Moncada (Brown University), Teresa Thomas (Queen’s University) Vázquez-Castillo (California State University of Northridge), Dolores Bernal (UC Berkeley), Marisa Cravens (Association of Bay Area Governments)

"Hey, Progressive Planners, isn't time that we start talking about recapturing unearned increment in land value?" with Nico Calavita (San Diego State University), Stephen Barton (Berkeley Rent Stabilization Program), Tom Gihiring (TAGPLAN, Seattle)

"Community Based Economic Development: Perspectives from the Island of O‘ahu" with Tai-An Miao (Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center, Waimanalo Youth and Family Collaborative), Kamuela Enos (MAO Organic Farms), Molly Chlebnikow (University of Hawaii), Ilima Ho-Lastimosa (God's Country Waimanalo) and moderator Annie Koh

"Divergent Uses of Art & Culture in Urban Revitalization" with Norma Rantisi (Concordia University), Yuseph Katiya (Concordia University), Diana Sherman (City Canvas)

"Children Should Be The Architects And Planners Of Our Future Cities” with Alex Gilliam (Public Workshop), Damon Rich (City of Newark / Center for Urban Pedagogy), Charlie Vinz (After School Matters), Gever Tully (Tinkering School)

"Housing and Planning In Latin America: Progressive Policies and Challenges" with Emily Achtenberg (NACLA research associate, Boston MA), Amanda Huron (CUNY Graduate Center), Adriana Vega (Urban and Regional Planner, Bogota, Colombia), Jill Hamberg (Empire State College, SUNY)

"MUTT: Miami Urban Think Tank and the practice of Hybrid politics in Metropolitan Miami" with Hector Burga (UC Berkeley), Shawn Selleck (Duke University), Jennifer Siquiera (Architecture for Humanity Miami Chapter), Benji Power (MIT)

"Getting Real Affordable Housing Wins from 'Smart Growth' Collaborations: What Does It Take?" with Peter Cohen (East Bay Housing Organizations), Melissa Hippard (Greenbelt Alliance), Sam Tepperman-Gelfan (Public Advocates), Alex Lantsberg (Northern California Carpenters Regional Council), Jovana Vasquez (Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization)

"My Momma told me Cancer was a Growth: Ain’t no 'Smart' Growth without the People!" with Fernando Marti (Asian Neighborhood Design), Cindy Wu (Chinatown Community Development Center), Annie Loya (Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), Mari-Rose Taruc, Amber Chan or Wayne Leung (Asian Pacific Environmental Network)

"Transit Justice Case Study: The Oakland Airport Connector Campaign, and its Implications for Civil Rights in Transportation Investments" with Bob Allen (Urban Habitat), Lindsay Imai (Urban Habitat), Will Dominie (Urban Habitat), Richard Marcantonio (Public Advocates)

"Planning for Growth or Planning for Equity?: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Community Development” with Sean Connelly (BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance), Bob Huish (Dalhousie University), Mark Roseland (Simon Fraser University), David Hendrickson (Simon Fraser University)

"Social Responsibility by Design – Integration of Ethical Principles and Sustainable Practices in the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business Building, Mills College" with Rosa Sheng (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson), Nancy Thornborrow (Mills College), Karen Fiene (Mills College), Greg Mottola (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson)

"Connecting mobility and planning in the Bay Area: politics, civil rights, and new tools" with Jason Henderson (San Francisco State University), Rachel Brahinsky (UC Berkeley), Brooke Dubose (Fehr and Peers), Kearstin Dischinger (San Francisco Planning Department), Aaron Golub (Arizona State University), Jason Henderson (Geography, San Francisco State University)

"Just Beginnings: Alternatives to the clean slate" with David Perkes (Gulf Coast Community Design Studio), Christine Gaspar (Center for Urban Pedagogy), Dan Pitera (Detroit Collaborative Design Center)

“Bringing home the equity in the new Sustainable Communities Initiative” with Kalima Rose (PolicyLink), Dwayne Marsh (HUD)

"Changing the Face of the Surface Transportation Policy Debate" with Anita Hairston (PolicyLink)

"SMART Ideas Urban Design Community Charrette and Competition" with Julia Donoho (AIA Redwood Empire), RK Stewart (Perkins+Will), Lois Fisher (CNU, Fisher Town Design), Julia Donoho (AIARE), Tanya Narath (Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy), Alima Silverman, (AIA)

"After the Transformation: The People Reclaiming San Francisco" with Fernando Marti (Asian Neighborhood Design), Nick Pagoulatos (MAC and Dolores Street Community Services), Angelica Cabande (SOMCAN)

"Berkeley’s Downtown Area Plan: Environment, Equity and Economy" with Erin Rhoades (Livable Berkeley), Mayor Tom Bates (City of Berkeley), Tim Frank (Environmental Consultant)

"Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning: A Proposal for Cooperative Work" with Xolela Mangcu (University of Johannesburg), G. William Domhoff (UC Santa Cruz), Kenneth M. Reardon (University of Memphis), Alex Schafran (UC Berkeley) and moderator Pierre Clavel (Cornell University)

"Development with Diversity: Linking Research to Action in the San Francisco Bay Region" with Karen Chapple (UC-Berkeley), Claudia Flores (San Francisco Planning Department), Vernell Crittendon (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), Julia Liou (Asian Health Services), Sarah Treuhaft (PolicyLink)

"The extraordinary financial crisis now impacting local government" with Dick Platkin (Tierra Concepts), Aaron Golub (Arizona State University), Kevin Smith (UC Davis)

"From the Neighborhood to the Region: Implementing Sustainability at Multiple Scales" with MIT’s Ingrid Heilke, Eirini Kasioumi, and Leila Bozorg, and moderated by James Buckley (MIT)

"Architects in the Community: Beyond the Office" with Ann Panopio (Asian Neighborhood Design), Rachel Matthews (Rebuilding Together Oakland), Juan Calaf (Asian Neighborhood Design), Liz Ogbu (Public Architecture)

"Writing the Virtual City: A Mashup" with Hector Fernando Burga (UC Berkeley, MUTT), Molly Hankwitz (Queensland University of Technology, newmediafix.net), Katia Savchuk (POLIS), Nancy Levinson (Places)

PAPER SESSIONS

Economic Development

"Junk the Market: Responses to the Foreclosure Crisis," Peter Marcuse (Columbia University)

"Narrating the Great Recession: Reﬂections on Critical Scholarship and Community Coalitions in Neoliberal Times," Marshall Feldman (The University of Rhode Island)

The Healthy Metropolis

"A Just Metropolis is a Healthier Metropolis: Seeing Partnerships between Urban Planning and Public Health," Victoria Barr (University of British Columbia)

"Community Engagement in Partnerships for Healthy Communities," Johanna Walczak (Olneyville Housing Corporation, Providence, RI)

"Making healthy cities: the link between neighbourhood walkability and obesity-related diseases," Max Halparin (McGill University)

“Vertical Neighborhoods Model and Social Interactions in Residential Skyscrapers,” Siamak Ahmadzadeh Bazzaz (Politecnico di Milano University)

Global Cities, Changing Cities

"The evolution of planning in the EU: losing national styles and traditions to Europeanization?", Konstantinos Lalenis (University of Thessaly, Greece)

"When Local State as the Dealer: The Transformation of Plutocracy City to Global City and the Reshaping of Growth Machine at Taiwan," Chien-hung Tung (National Chung-Hsing University), Yao-hua Liou ( Feng Chia University), Kang-ting Tasi (National Chung-Hsing University)

"Identity Crises! Fabricating the Global City in India's Neo-Liberal Economic Era," Morgan Campbell (Hunter College CUNY, /CAG (Chennai, India)), Jessica Hecker (Hunter College CUNY)

"Defensive Identity and Flowing Place: A Case Study of Migration and Return Home of Dongji Settlement," Ya-Chun Chiang, Yi-Xiang Cheng

(Re)design

"Leveraging an Industrial Legacy Infill Philadelphia: Industrial Sites," Linda Dottor, Elizabeth Miller (Community Design Collaborative)

"Red Hook Initiative," Kian Goh (Parsons: The New School for Design, University of Pennsylvania)

"The Tao of Urbanism: Canalscape," Nan Ellin (Arizona State University)

Smart Growth 2.0

"Smart Growth's Democracy Problem," Zelda Bronstein

"GreenTRIP: Multiple Rewards of Low-Traffic Development," Ann Cheng (TransForm)

"A Smart Growth IQ? Toward a consensus of Smart Growth principles (Assessing The Preserve, Chino, CA), Jennifer Wolch (UC Berkeley), Michael Jerrett (UC Berkeley), Mariela Alfonzo (Virginia Tech)

"Hitting our Stride: Developing an operational definition and performance metrics for Walkable Urban Places," Mariela Alfonzo (Virginia Tech)

Using Design to Leverage Sustainability and Equality

"The Fifth Ecology - Los Angeles Beyond Desire," Mans Tham (Royal University Collage of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden), Björn Berglund (Linköping University, Sweden), Karl Landin (Stockholm Urban Planning Administration, Sweden)

"The Restorative Justice Center, A New Typology," Deanna VanBuren (FOURM design+build+educate)

"Exploring possibilities in urban sustainability: Permaculture, radical theory and practice," Stephen Polk (University of Colorado at Denver)

Nature & Infrastructure

"Ecological Strongholds: How cities and international policy are closing the environmental gap," Yogi Hendlin (UCLA)

"Neighborhood conquers storm water with green solutions," Pattsi Petrie (University of Illinois)

"The Piggyback Yards: A Catalyst for the future of the Los Angeles River," Benjamin Feldmann (Perkins+Will), Leigh Christy (Perkins+Will), and Marc Sallette

Identity and Space

"Using found images to find meaning and space," Carole O'Brien (University of Manitoba)

"Becoming American in Public: New Immigrant Parades and the Construction of American Ethnic Identity," Annis Sengupta (MIT)

"queer|space|HOME," Kian Goh (super-interesting!, Parsons The New School for Design, University of Pennsylvania School of Design)

"Planning for Cultural Expression in the Built Environment," Andrea Garfinkel-Castro (Arizona State University)

Green Space, Public Space?

"Post-industrial urban green space: Whose city, which ecologies?" Jennifer Foster (York University)

"Spatial Equity of Walkable Public Parks: Phoenix Mesa Urbanized areas, Maricopa County," Asiya Natekal (Arizona State University)

"The Real and the Festival Marketplace: South Street Seaport, the New Amsterdam Market and the social construction of public space," Melanie Bower (Museum of the City of New York)

"Toronto’s Parks: Examining the discourses of public space in the postindustrial city," Penny Kaill-Vinish, Jed Kilbourn, Matt Kenel and Ian Malczewski (York University)

Spatial Justice

Discussant: Edward Soja (UCLA)

"Resisting neoliberal urbanism: Moving towards a socially just progressive city," Mohammad Rahman

"Segregation, Spatial (in)Justice and the City," Sonia Lehman-Frisch (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)

"Scaling the Urban Crisis: Blight and Spatial Scale," Clement Lai (Cornell University)

Community Based Development

"Innovative Strategies, Fresh Roles and Renewed Commitment to Collaboration for CDCs," Sara Khorshidifard and Susan Weistrop (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

"Community based research as a building block towards entrenching the right to the metropolis?" Amy Twigge-Molecey (I.N.R.S.- Urbanisation, culture et société)

"Labour-Community Coalitions Negotiating Community Benefit Agreements" Abbe Edelson (Independent Researcher/MES York University, Toronto, Ontario)

"Crafting agreements: shaping spaces for coping with uncertainty? The case of partial plans of downtown renewal in Colombia," Catalina Ortiz (University of Illinois - Chicago)

Food, Planning and Politics

"Addressing Food Security - Wastewater as a renewable resource for Urban Agriculture," Geeti Silwal (Perkins+Will)

"Food System Planning, Food Justice, and Critical Race Theory: Toward a Radical Strategy," Clare Fox (UCLA), Cedar Landsman (UCLA), Alicia Virani (UCLA)

"San Francisco's 'Street Food Movement’," Sang-hyoun Pahk (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

"A Fertile Field: Cultivating Space for Food Justice," Alison Hope Alkon (University of the Pacific)

Urban Redevelopment Reconsidered

"Windy Ridge: Suburban 'Slum' or Community Opportunity?" Liz Shockey (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)

"Revitalizing Utica – An Urban Learning Community," Xiaowei Zhang (Cornell University), Christorpher Hardy, Tiffany Ho, Chethan Sarabu, Ross Pristera (Cornell University)

"Broadway Triangle, Brooklyn: From Planning Education to Political Engagement," Anusha Venkataraman (Pratt Institute)

Design and Mobility on the Gulf Coast

"Cooperative design on the Louisiana Coast: Coastal Sustainability Studio," Jeffrey Carney (Louisiana State University)

"Planning against Rural Sprawl: The Golden Triangle Highway Corridor Planning Project," John Poros (Mississippi State University)

"Reviving the Public Realm: one stop at a time," Hans Herrmann (Mississippi State University)

Ethnic Conflict, Immigration, and Safety

"Planning for peacebuilding in contested cities: A needs-based analysis in Belfast and Jerusalem," Janice Miller (University of Manitoba)

"“We the people…” : Borderlands scholarship, immigration, and the right to the multicultural city," Caitlin Cahill (University of Utah)

"Negotiating Identity In New Immigrant Gateways," Julie Behrens (Columbia University) and Kaja Kuehl (Columbia University)

"Immigrants in Greece: are they welcomed or not?" Aris Sapounakis (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece)

New York City Revisited

"Misappropriating Jane Jacobs: 'The Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs,' Nation Books," Roberta Brandes Gratz

“The Campaign for Community-Based Planning: A Case Study of Coalition-Driven Planning Policy Reform in NYC,” Eve Baron (Pratt Institute)

“Intractable Democracy: Fifty Years of Community-Based Planning,” Anusha Venkataraman (Pratt Institute)

Urbanism & Gentrification

"Reimagining the Figueroa Corridor, 1960-2000: Growth Politics, Policy, and Displacement," Daniel Wu (University of Southern California)

"Questioning 'Authentic' Urbanism," Jonathan Bleackley (York University

" Façades of progressive gentrification in a time of crisis, restructuring and displacement," Revel Sims (UCLA), Carolina Sarmiento (UCI)

Rethinking Justice and Change in the City

"Rethinking Justice in the CIty: Counter-spaces of Critical Mass," Lusi Morhayim (UC Berkeley)

"Researching the Just City: A study of urban revitalization in Toronto, Canada," Jed Kilbourn (York University)

"Car Free Sunday in London Ontario: Celebrating Progress in a Conservative Town," Ryan Craven

Affordability and Social Sustainability

"Redefining Affordability: The Housing and Transportation Affordability Index," Jen McGraw (Center for Neighborhood Technology)

"Energy Efficient Affordable Housing - the Need and the Potential," Nehemiah Stone (ADPSR National Board; Benningfield Group Inc., Principal)

"Social Sustainability in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region: Financial means of job access," Steven Howland (Arizona State University)

"Working at Planning’s Sweet Spot: Sustainability as a Mode of Shared Wealth Creation and a Vehicle for Deepening Democracy," Carlos Espinoza-Toro (MIT Community Innovators Lab), Annis Sengupta (MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning), Dayna Cunningham (MIT Community Innovators Lab), and Sebastiao Ferreira (MIT Community Innovators Lab)

Deconcentration, Decentralization, Participation: Roads to Equity?

"Evaluating Participatory Processes: The Case of Participatory Budgeting at Toronto Community Housing," Joanna Duarte Laudon (York University)

"Promoting Resident-Led Planning and Developmnet in the American and Italian South," Kenneth Reardon (University of Memphis), Antonio Raciti (University of Catania), Katherine Lambert Pennington (University of Memphis)

"Physical Transformation, Poverty Deconcentration and Residents’ Self-Sufficiency in HOPE VI: Lessons from Camden, New Jersey," Michael Brown (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

"From earthquake crisis to more equal metropolis," Pouya Doulabi (Politecnico di Milano-Italy), Setareh Fadaee (Politecnico di Milano-Italy), and Hossein Maroufi (Politecnico di Milano-Italy)

Digital and Web-Based Resources for Planners and Designers

"The Open Source City: civic engagement and digital technologies," Francisca Rojas (MIT)

"SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design): Triple Bottom Line Design," James Wheeler (Gulf Coast Community Design Studio)

"los angeles_REDCAR," Gerry Tierney (Perkins+Will), Benjamin Feldmann (Perkins+Will), Ben Feldmann, Tyrone Marshall (510 Collective), Katie Handy, Dinesh Perera (format design studio), and Therese Tierney (TT_Studio)

"local code: real estates", Nicholas de Monchaux (UC Berkeley)

Contested Space

"California Dreams, California Nightmares: Gang Injunctions, Civil Rights, and the Spaces of People of Color," Tarecq Amer (UC Davis)

"Public Policy & Sexual Geography in Portland, Oregon, 1945-2007" Elizabeth Mylott (Portland State University)

"Corruption in Planning and Land Development in Greece: the Growth of a Lernaean Hydra," Konstantinos Lalenis (University of Thessaly, Greece)

"Plural Legalities and Anti Eviction Struggles in Cape Town, South Africa," Kenneth Salo (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

Counter Hegemony, Counter Publics

"Architecture and human rights: countering discriminatory planning policies," Malkit Shoshan (Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory)

"The Meeting Place: Colonialism and Planning in Winnipeg, MB," Sarah Cooper

"Criminal food: Dissent, food sharing, and biopower in the revanchist city," Jeremy Sorenson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

“Deep Activism: An Inward Revolution Toward Transformative Social Change,” John Adams (John F. Kennedy University)

Development, Politics and Change in the San Francisco Bay Area

"Collapse of the Sanctuary City: The Federal Challenge to San Francisco's Immigration Policy," Trevor Gardner, (UC Berkeley)

"From HOPE IV to HOPE SF: Public Housing Redevelopment in San Francisco," Jane Rongerude (UC Berkeley)

"The Long Road from Babylon to Brentwood: Crisis and Restructuring in the San Francisco Bay Area," Alex Schafran (UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Malo Hutson (UC Berkeley)

Dispatches from the Fringe: The Unknown Edges of Northern California

“Under Water in the Valley: Stockton, California and the Future of the Exurbs,” Casey M. Gallagher (UC Davis)

“The foreclosures crisis in the Northern San Joaquin Valley: a geopolitical study,” Hugo Lefebvre (Institut Francais de Geopolitique, Universite Paris 8, France)

“Vallejo, CA. The Death and Life of an Unloved American City,” L. Carlos Freire, (Aalborg University, Denmark)

“Invisible Barriers: Concentrated Poverty and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Change in Fresno,” Danielle Bergstrom (Cornell University)

POSTERS

“TRANSITions: A Proposal for Development around Berlin’s Central Station,” Michelle Buchmeier and Jennifer Blackwell (USC)

“Embracing the Rise,” Benjamin Feldmann, Tyrone Marshall, Jaepyo Park, Patrick Vaucheret, Roberto Vega, and Jing Xiao (Perkins+Will)

"Meandering in Shangri-la – A public art project at the streets on Taoyuan County, Taiwan,” Jason Shih and Rose Huang

“From Six Packs and Flamin’ Hot Chips to Local Apples and Carrot Sticks: Healthy Corner Store Projects as Strategies for Revitalizing the Urban Foodscape,” Liz Simmons (Portland State University)

“Progressive Infrastructure: From Aqueducts to Infoducts,” Christopher Hardy

“Towards a more open model for measuring urban metropolitan density,” Thomas McGurk (Concordia University)

“People's Portable Garden: A Celebration of Transitional Space,” Lauren Brown (Wasatch Community Gardens & the University of Utah)

“Twitter in Transit: public engagement on public transit through microblogging,” Karen Quinn Fung (University of British Columbia)

“Invisible Barriers: Concentrated Poverty and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Change in Fresno, CA,” Danielle Bergstrom (Cornell University)

“The Story Behind the Maps: The emerging landscape of community collaborations and open-source mapping,” Donald Kelly and Zeenat Hasan (greenzona)

“Journey of the Global ARC 2010: Bridging Sustainability Solutions across the Urban-Rural divide,” Keith Pezzoli (UCSD), Kerry Williams (The Global ARC) and Janice Pezzoli (The Global ARC)

“Revealing Revitalization in Toronto,” Andrea Friedman, (York University)

"Shopping in Baltimore: Who Pays More for Groceries?” Ben Stone

"Solar Serpents in Paradise," Mans Tham (Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden)

"SMART Ideas Urban Design Community Charrette and Competition (competition entries on display)," Julia Donoho (AIA Redwood Empire), RK Stewart (Perkins+Will), Lois Fisher (CNU, Fisher Town Design), Tanya Narath (Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy), Alima Silverman (AIA)