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OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
N O. LTC # 184- 2010
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LETTER TO ~Ow'~MI~~IO~ ~:,
TO: Mayo ,Ma i Herrera Bower and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Jo a ~I I an r
DATE: June 29, 2010
suB~ECT: Making Cities Livable Conferences: Planning Healthy &Child-Friendly
Communities
Attached for your perusal is information on the above subject.
JMG/
C: Hilda Fernandez, Assistant City Manager, Jorge Gomez, Assistant City Manager, Robert
Middaugh, Assistant City Manager, Dolores Mejia, Special Projects Administrator,
Richard Lorber, Acting Planning Director
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DIRECTOR
Suzanne H. Crowhurst
ADVISORY BOARD
Krzysztof Bieda (Krakow)
David Cloutier (Santa Fe)
Vera Danyluk (Montreal)
Derek Drummond (Montreal)
Richard Economakis (Notre
Dame)
Andreas Feldtkeller
(Tubingen)
Mayor Dietmar Hahlweg
(Erlangen)
Richard J. Jackson (Los
Angeles)
Ferd Johns, (Bozeman)
Jaques Kaswan (Berkeley)
Gianni Longo (New York)
Michael Lykoudis (Notre
Dame)
Donald MacDonald (San
Francisco)
Tom Martineau (Tallahassee)
Rolf Monheim (Bayreuth)
Judge Robert Morrow
(Hamilton)
Peter Novak (Ulm)
Patrick J. Quinn (Troy)
Borzou Rahimi (Los Angeles)
Jurgen Rauch (Munchen)
Mayor Joseph P Riley Jr.
(Charleston)
Edoardo Salzano (Venice)
Sven von Ungem-Sternberg
(Freiburg)
Mayor Sylvia Sutherland
(Peterborough)
Jane Thompson (Cambridge)
Hartmut Topp
(Kaiserslautern)
Mayor Hermann Vogler
(Ravensburg)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
CHAIRS
Suzanne H. Crowhurst
Lennard Ph.D.(Arch.)
Director
IMCL Conferences
1030 NW Johnson St #501
Portland, OR 97209 USA
Fax: 831-6245126
Suzanne.Lennard(a~LivableC
ities.orq
Joseph P. Riley Jr.
Mayor
City of Charleston, SC
www.livablecities.ora
June 11, 2010
Dear City Clerk:
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Please post, or circulate to your Mayor and Council Members this letter and the enclosed
poster. A second poster is enclosed for your Community Development/Planning Department.
Dear Mayor and Council Members:
Mayor Joseph P. Riley joins me to welcome your participation in the 48th IMCL
Conference on Planning Healthy &Child-Friendly Communities, in Charleston, SC,
October 17-21, 2010.
Today, First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Kathleen Sebelius, announced ~~Lets Move Cities and Towns", asking Mayors
and Council Members to make their community a healthier place, especially for
our children. This conference brings together an unprecedented program of
outstanding experts and leaders who will present the best models, and help guide
this effort. You are invited to participate in the development of Guidelines,
Standards and a Certification Program for Child-Friendly Communities.
For planners, 24 AICP Certification Maintenance credits are available.
See enclosed poster, and www.LivableCities.or~ for more details.
You, and your City cannot afford to miss this conference! To facilitate your
participation in this important task, IMCL offers cities the following special rate:
Join IMCL and register at HALF Price ($297.50*) until Angast 15.
For representatives from your City, the deadline for the registration rate of $595 is
extended from June 15 to August 15. To register by credit card at this rate, or at
the IMCL Members rate, please contact Suzanne Lennard, IMCL Director, at
Suzanne.Lennard~,LivableCities org
I hope you will join us in Charleston to fight childhood obesity and make our
communities healthy!
With best regards,
Suzanne 3-~ Crawhurst .~ennard
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.)
Director, International Making Cities Livable Conferences
* Rate not retroactive.
Making Cities Livable
48"' International Making Cities Livable Conference
Planning Healthy and Ghild-Friendly Communities
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
October 17- 21, 2010
The conference will bring together 350-400
delegates - elected officials, practitioners and
scholars in planning, public health, urban design,
landscape architecture, transportation planning,
pediatrics, child development, land use
development and architecture from around the
world to present multi-disciplinary insight and
information, inspired planning strategies, ground
breaking Best Practices, and wise experience in
achieving healthy, livable, and sustainable cities.
We can, and we must adopt healthy planning practices now! The 48th
IMCL Conference will focus on how to create healthy communities,
and how to improve children's health and development by improving
the built environment.
Children are profoundly affected by their environment. Evidence
shows they need active, independent mobility on safe streets, public
transit, bike networks, and traffic calmed streets, natural play areas,
gardens and parks, human scale architecture and mixed use urban
Health effects of the built environment * Planning
for healthy, independent mobility * Balanced
transportation & livable streets * Sustainable
nature & the sustainable city * Redevelopment of
stressed towns 8r, brownfields * Healthy
environments: youth perspectives * Community
participation: case studies * Land use planning &
childhood obesity: from research to prevention
Transforming dysfunctional neighborhoods
Planning neighborhoods with access to
community & nature * Evaluating city livability
Funding child-friendly efforts * The city as
playground * School & Community: bringing
them closer * Natural teaming environments *
Reclaiming public spaces * Urban places, social
life 8t civic engagement * Focus on family-
friendly cities * Building networks 8t respurces
Strategies to combat poverty 8c homelessness
Healthy land use & transportation planning
Child-friendly transportation planning & safe
routes to school * Making the whole city child-
friendly * Form based codes in urban/suburban
redevelopment * Aceess to healthy food * Urban
agriculture * Creating new child-friendly
communities * Reviving child-friendly
neighborhoods in cities.
The conference will conclude with a review ei' a
Conference Position Paper on Developing
Guidelines, Standards, and a Certification
Program for Child-Friendly Communities, and
invitation to conference participants to take up the
challenge of contributing their expertise and
experience to this program.
fabric in cities of short distances, lively city centers and public places
where all gather for farmers markets, festivals, and community
social life.
If we make our neighborhoods and cities healthy and livable for
children, we all benefit. To achieve this goal requires the combined
leadership of the planning and public health fields, support from
elected officials, and collaboration of multiple other disciplines and
community representatives.
Dear Friends:
1 am very pleased to announce the
48th /nternational Making Cities
Livable Conference: Planning
Healthy and Child-Friendly
Communities will be held in
Charleston, October 17- 21, 2010.
The conference o,~`ers an
opportunity to get involved in
creating child friendly
communities. Towns and cities play a critical role as they focus
on building child friendly green spaces, community places, safe
routes, and urban design. This meeting is jointly organized by the
City of Charleston and the International Making Cities Livable
Council.
An impressive program of speakers has been assembled. As the
Mayor of the City of Charleston, l have helped to lead the e,(forts
of the Mayors Action Challenge for Children and Families, and 1
have served as a chair for the National League of Cities Council
of Youth, Education, and Families. I believe Charleston will
serve as a wonderful back-drop for this conference.
The City of Charleston is beautiful in the fall. You will have an
opportunity to tour our historic houses and neighborhoods,
gardens and plantations, walk through the Waterfront Park, and
work with leading urban planners and thinkers in the United
States and Europe.
We are looking forward to this co»ferrncr as it allows the City of
Charleston an opportunity to share ideas that have helped to
make our community more healthy and child friendly and learn
from the solutions, which have been proven successful in cities
and towns across the world.
I look forward to welcoming you in Charleston, October 17-21,
2010.
Joseph P. Riley, Jr.
Mayor, city of Charkrton
July 30, 2009
INVITED SPEAKERS
First Lady Michelle Obama
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, US Deparunent of Health &
Human Services.
Tom Hatiriu, Senator, IA. Healthy Lifestyles and Prevention
America Act.
Jobn Sarbaues, Congressman, MD. No Child Left Inside Act.
Jim Doyle, Governor, WI. KidsFirst Program
Sven von Utt6etn-Sternberg*, Former Governor of South
Baden, GERMANY
Randall Areadt*, FRTPI, Land/Conserv Planner,
Narragansett, RI
Peter Beason Ph.D.*, President, Search Institute,
Minneapolis, MN
Perry Bigebw*, Founder, President, The Bigelow Group Inc.,
Aurota, IL
Andrew L Daurtenbera*, MD, MPH, Assoc. Dir SEEHS,
NCEH, CDC, GA
Reid Ewhtg*, Prof City 8t Metro Planning, Univ of Utah
Lawrence Frank*, Ph.D., C[P, ASLA, Bombadier Chair,
Sustain Trans, Univ BC, CANADA
Rkhard Gilbert*, Consultant, Urban Issues, Toronto,
CANADA.
David Green*, Prof, GA Tech, Assoc Principal, Perkins &
Will, Atlanta, GA
John Hickettkaper, Mayor, Denver, CO. Child & Youth
Ftiendty City luitiative.
Richard J. Jackson*, MD MPH, Prof, Chair, Dept. of Env
Health Sciences, UCLA
Stephen R. Kellett*, Ph.D., 7tveedy/Ord-way Prof, Social
Ecology, Yale Univ
Rosemary Ketu-edy*, Director, QUT Centre for Subtropical
Design, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
JoottEsab KLn*, Ph.D., AIA, AICP, Prof, Lawrence Tech
Univ, Birmingham, MI
John L. Knott, Jr.*, Co-founder, President, The Noiseue
Company, N. Charleston, SC
Lanune Mahdjoubi*, Ph.D., Fac, Blt Envt, UWEST, Bristol,
UK
Thotms M. Mettittq Mayor, Boston, MA, Co-Founder,
Mayor's Action Challenge for Children & Families
Cheryl Moder*, Dir, San Diego Co Childhood Obesity [nit,
San Diego, CA
Robin G Moore*, Dir, Natural Learning test, Prof, Land
Arch, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
Charles Royer, Former Mayor of Seattle, President, Inst for
Comm Change, Seattle, WA
R. T. Rybak, Mayor, Minneapolis, MN, Mayor's Action
Challenge for Children & Families
Gary SanJs*, Professor Em, Wayne State Univ, Plymouth, MI
Randy wade=, Dir, Pedestrian Projects Group, NYC Dept of
Trans, New York, NY
24 AICP CM
More information: LivableCities.ora
credits available