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Audio Library
Graying Suburbs
Sustainable Communities
May 7, 2009
As America’s elderly population continues to grow, municipalities face new challenges of providing adequate services. Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, of the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, and Jeffery W. Anderzhon, FAIA, 2006 chair of AIA’s Design for Aging Advisory Board, discuss solutions to this upcoming demographic crisis. Elinor Ginzler, AARP’s senior vice president for Livable Communities, moderates.
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Beauty vs. Barricades
Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture
April 14, 2009
Robert Campbell, architectural critic for The Boston Globe, examines how to balance the need for security with accessibility, transparency, and aesthetics in D.C.’s built environment.
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The Opposite of Traffic
Smart Growth
April 14, 2009
Ellen Greenberg, independent consultant and former Research Director for the Congress for New Urbanism, offers eye-opening perspectives on different ways to define transportation success—some of which assign tackling congestion a surprisingly minor role.
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A Blueprint for Green Communities
Building for the 21st Century
April 13, 2009
How do we actually make green communities? Walker Wells, director of the Resource Efficiency and the Sustainable Communities program for Global Green USA, provides answers to this question through best practices for green building that are used by architects, developers, and affordable housing managers.
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Smart Growth and Green Building in the Media
Smart Growth
March 18, 2009
The terms “smart growth” and “green building” are widely accepted as shorthand for a different approach to growth and development, but it wasn’t always that way. Haya El Nasser, of USA Today, discusses this shift and the prospects for media coverage of new and emerging issues related to growth in the future.
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Jeanne Gang on Transforming Skylines and Communities
Women of Architecture
March 9, 2009
Jeanne Gang, founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, and one of the new breed of young architects changing the profession, discusses the transformative elements of urban buildings and neighborhoods in Gang’s native Chicago and beyond.
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The Role of Buildings in Arlington's Climate Action Program: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Building for the 21st Century
March 5, 2009
John Morrill, Energy Manager, Arlington County’s Department of Environmental Services, and coordinator of Fresh AIRE—Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions—illustrates the impact of buildings on Arlington’s climate footprint and how improved energy efficiency can help reduce it.
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Building Recombinant Ecologies
Building for the 21st Century
February 11, 2009
Stephen Luoni from the University of Arkansas Community Design Center discusses holistic planning methods that bring social and environmental considerations to urban economic development.
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Enterprise's Green Communities Program
Smart Growth
February 9, 2009
Dana Bourland, senior director of Green Communities for Enterprise Community Partners, presents the organization’s national initiative to bring the economic, environmental, and health benefits of green building to affordable housing. To view the associated PowerPoint presentation visit: http://www.nationalbuildingmuseum.net/pdf/SmartGrowth_DanaBourlandppt_02.09.09.pdf
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