10/04/09
Metromorphosis 2009: Urban Placemaking -
Categories: Transportation, Development -
Douglas
@ 08:55:06 pm
In 2004, then-Mayor Bob Day and I attended the first Greater Dallas Planning Council Metromorphosis event. Numerous staff members were there too. It focused exclusively on the so-called First Ring Suburbs. Mayor Day was also on the national First Tier Suburbs Council. Much of my attention to first-tier suburbs started at that symposium.
The next Metromorphosis symposium in 2007 focused significantly on the future of the Metroplex as we grow. It was one of the earliest comprehensive sources that I saw that looked at our expansion and as it related to other areas of the country. Mayor Ron Jones, several council members, and staff members were at that symposium.
The next Metromorphosis symposium is Friday. This time the theme is Urban Placemaking. The long-range effects emanating from this symposium will be as great as those that came before. Of particular interest to me and anyone living in suburbia will the the keynote presentation by June Williamson, co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia. There are plenty of success stories of changing suburbia. The authors, both architects, have documented many of those changes and measured the effects. We know we have to change; we know it will be incremental. We don't know what works and what doesn't. Now we don't have to feel we are re-inventing the wheel!
Look over the program and then register online. If the program and reception at the House of Blues aren't enough to entice you, lunch will be catered by Wolfgang Puck!
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