2015 Placemaking Conference

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Anchoring Quality Communities – Tom Murphy

"Cities are being driven by their ability to attract talent. The most important investment a city can make is education." "Denver is an example of a city that made an intentional decision to invest in mass transit. Oklahoma City...

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Place-Based Investment – Vincent LoVoi

"For an investor to succeed in a community-building investment, he or she has to have partners, has to have talent who can drive the investment forward. They have to have a cheering section in a community." "One of the biggest...

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Parking in Livable Communities – Jeffrey Tumlin

"If a city is requiring more than 3 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet, it is requiring more parking area than building area." "The public sector comes in and forces the private market to produce a fixed supply of parking and...

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Active Design for Healthy Places – Karen Lee

"In the 19th Century our leading causes of death were infectious diseases and cholera. We didn't have antibiotics or vaccines, so we had to look at our cities- Planning and public health were birthed together and we were able to...

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Fiscally Strong Towns – Chuck Marohn

"As I was working as an engineer and planner, I started to ask myself questions about why the projects I was working on didn't seem to make a lot of financial sense. Why are cities that are experiencing robust growth having deep...

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