The Holy Grail of all my civic activities has been to learn how to help neighborhoods be better and to reverse the decline that is all too often the norm in suburban communities. I have learned a lot but not nearly enough that I feel effective. I'm nowhere near ready "to write the book."
 
Of the people I know and know of, I think Andrés Duany to be the closest to grabbing the cup. As a co-founder of the Congress of New Urbanism and a town planner, much of his work has been designing neighborhoods that avoid being one of the tired neighborhoods he has so commonly witnessed over the last few decades.
 
Now that he has successfully demonstrated how to design healthier, more robust neighborhoods, he is turning his focus to effectively re-modeling those neighborhoods he did not want to perpetuate.
 
Anyone interested in neighborhoods and that wants to better understand how neighborhoods can be revitalized should attend this seminar. This is truly a rare opportunity and nothing equal to this is likely to be in our area again for many years.
 
And it's free. Just get there.