Building Sustainable Communities: Re-developing Your City

Title: Building Sustainable Communities: Re-developing Your City
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Description: The City of Houston is working harder than ever to make the city green and has made a lot of progress. Plans are underway to increase energy efficiency of buildings, green up the City’s transportation fleet, make infrastructure more efficient, use more sources of renewable energy and improve waste and water management practices.

Cities around the nation share a common goal of building sustainable communities that preserve open space, while creating compact walkable neighborhoods with (TOD’s) Transit Oriented Developments that help connect the suburbs to the city.

How do communities in the Houston metropolitan area become more sustainable and attract entrepreneurs and creative talent that can rebuild urban areas with a sense of place where people want to live, work, shop and play?

This full-day workshop will explore the answer to these questions and show examples of how Houston has implemented sustainable initiatives that are greening up the image of this town and revitalizing communities. The instructors will exchange ideas on what has worked nationally and locally, share experience and use case studies that show cities that have transitioned to become vibrant again. Specifically, you will learn about place making, end use strategies (including transit oriented developments) and the local government resources that are available to promote sustainable revitalization in communities.

For more information contact Mary Hereford at
(224) 567-6790 or maryh@brownfieldassociation.org
Start Time: 08:30
Date: 2011-07-28
End Time: 16:00