EVENT DETAILS
Pre-approved for 16 AICP CM
This two-day course provides an in-depth understanding of how to guide good urban form through a regulatory framework. Participants learn to create form-based codes by drawing upon an area’s best urban elements to conceptualize the elements that shape public space and community character. Instructors delve into the basics of urban form, combining lecture and case studies with “hands-on” participatory exercises in the essential tasks of coding.
The course uses presentations and interactive discussions to enhance participants’ knowledge of urban design at the scale of the building and building types, the street and street types, the block and the neighborhood. Participants work together to apply theory and practice as they create a vision and regulatory elements of plan for an illustrative area. Instructors and panelists discuss unexpected design challenges, and explore design possibilities for greenfield sites, redevelopment areas, already built-out communities and regional plans.
INSTRUCTORS
CHRISTOPHER ZIMMERMAN
Christopher Zimmerman is Vice President for Economic Development at Smart Growth America and Director of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. In this capacity, he provides technical assistance to local governments, regional agencies, and states, and researches the interrelationships between land use, transportation, and development policies. He particularly focuses on the economic and fiscal impact of these policies on localities and regions.
GEOFFREY FERRELL
Geoffrey Ferrell is one of the originators of the modern practice of Form-Based Codes. His work ranges from site-specific urban designs to zoning-toolkits to replace Euclidean zones – development regulations that emphasize clarity for end-users. His experience with adopted municipal form-based codes goes back to 1991 with the Metropolitan Dade County Traditional Neighborhood Ordinance, and his experience includes the master plan & form-based code for the redevelopment of the Columbia Pike Corridor in Arlington, Virginia.
GUEST SPEAKERS
GABE KLEIN
Gabe Klein, founding partner of Cityfi, advising governments and companies worldwide on innovation in cities. Mr. Klein is also the former commissioner of both the Chicago and DC DOTs where he relentlessly revamped arcane government processes and communication internally and externally to eliminate speed to implementation with a focus on putting people first vs. automobiles on city streets.
CHRIS LEINBERGER
Chris Leinberger is a land use strategist, teacher, developer, researcher and author, balancing business realities with social and environmental concerns. Mr. Leinberger is the Charles Bendit Distinguished Scholar and Research Professor and Chair of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at the George Washington University School of Business; president of Locus: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors; a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program in Washington DC; and founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a New Urbanism and transit-oriented development firm based in Philadelphia.
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
MCCOG Members: Please select “In-State” and enter discount coupon on registration page.*
Registration for the workshop includes admission to the Think Regional Dinner and Keynote.
$220 for In-State attendees*
$425 for Out-of-State attendees
$425 for Out-of-State attendees
*Reduced rate made possible by the generous sponsorship from Madison County Council of Governments.
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