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IN THIS ISSUE

External NewsUpcoming ConferencesReports / ResearchArticles of Interest

Internal News Design / Project AwardsSpeaking Engagements / AchievementsUD Projects or People in the Media

Cover - Innovation Square Project featured in this issueWhat do you think of this Newsletter?Click here, or contact Hadasa Lev directly

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS / ACHIEVEMENTS

DESIGN / PROJECT AWARDS

Karen Alschuler taught a class at the Hass School of Business at UC Berkeley. This was to graduate students in Real Estate Development

Urban Design Project Awards from the 2012 Perkins+Will Design Awards Biennale

David Green speaking at a ULI Summit in Atlanta about What’s Next in Sustainable Design in Atlanta

Kamala Subbarayan and Hadasa Lev spoke at the 2012 APA National Conference

UD PROJECTS OR PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA

Unlike the internally focused suburban re-

search parks of the previous decades,

Innovation Square aligns the goals of the City

of Gainesville and the University of Florida

to create a livable, walkable, adaptable and

sustainable urban research district that gives

Gainesville a competitive edge in attracting

and retaining the best minds and companies in

research. The Visioning process for the District

has set in place lasting partnerships between

public and private stakeholders to ensure

successful implementation.

Innovation Square is a unique project. On the

surface it appears to be a typical district plan,

but has become a much more comprehensive

process. The project started as a simple zon-

ing exercise, creating regulations that would

allow, even incentivize, research specific

development in an underutilized commercial

district between downtown Gainesville and the

University of Florida campus. It includes the

various elements of a district plan, but moves

2Many of these posts are also available on the Urban Design Idea Space page

Kamala Subbarayan: promoted to Associate, and selected for the 2012 Perkins+Will’s Leadership Institute.

Dan Seng in our Seattle office published the book “Sustainable Urban Development”.

Krisan Osterby presenting at the International Town & Gown Association conference on June 4th: Developing a Successful Campus Master Plan

BeltLine featured in Georgia Trend: “Sustainable Georgia: A Walk In The Park” - About the partnership between the Atlanta BeltLine and Park Pride

Our Mission Rock Project is Making Headlines. To view the Idea Space post with the full list of articles click here.

“The University of Alaska Campus Master Plan 2012 is underway” (University of Alaska Southeast News)

Innovation Square won the 2012 Donald E. Hunter Excellence in Economic Development Planning APA Award

Marine Gateway featured in The Vancouver Sun: Article on this sustainable mixed-use and TOD project south of Vancouver

The BeltLine and Ryan Gravel featured in Atlanta Intown:“Parks and transit in bloom at Park Pride Conference”

Brodie Bain Joins P+W as Campus Planning Director in the Seattle office

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University of California San Francisco Five Sites Study Win! This is an opportunity to make a difference with excellent urban infill in five districts of the city.

University of Wisconsin Platteville Master Plan won an ASLA-MN Merit Award!

beyond this with the creation of a robust data-

base that tracks and projects resource utiliza-

tion, provides a financial development model-

ing tool that provides instant scenario analysis

for development decisions, as well as a phas-

ing distribution model for real-time modeling

and projecting. And all of these elements are

tied together, so that decisions made from a

market perspective address and reveal issues

that might arise for service cost and distribu-

tion, allowing the broad partnership driving the

project to make decisions that will have the

best possible outcomes. More on the project...

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Rio+20: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: taking place 6/20-6/22 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 47: taking place 7/7-7/11 in Chicago

AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition: taking place 5/17-5/19 in Washinton DC

Interview: Jon Christensen on California’s cities

3 Landscapes - Improving Conservation Practice in the Northeast Megaregion: A Report by Regional Plan Association and America 2050

Growth in Urban Population Outpaces Rest of Nation, Census Bureau Reports

Urban America: US cities in the global economy - Report by McKinsey Global Institute.The end of the report has links to other interesting reports.

2012 TED Prize Given To The City 2.0: This year, the (TED) award was distributed in a different way: to an idea, the City 2.0.

Should Cities Limit Building Heights (Atlantic Cities)?

APA National Conference: took place 4/14-4/17 in Los Angeles. A group from P+W attended and two of us spoke. See Speaking Engagements for more.

ULI Spring Meeting:This is a member only meeting taking place 5/8-5/10 in Charlotte

Congress for New Urbanism 20th conference: taking place 5/9-5/12 in West Palm Beach Florida. Basak Alkan and David Green, from Atlanta, attending

Challenge Detroit, cool program, inviting 30 future leaders to live, work, play, in and around Detroit for one year

Article by Jane Jacobs from 1958: Downtown is for People (Fortune Classic, 1958)

Urbanized - here is a sneak peek of this fascinating documentary film (scroll down to the video)

Interesting research done by Design Council on how urban design can affect crime

Article about Washington, D.C.’s Union Station

Autodesk exhibited a new approach for 3D interactive building instructions at LEGO World 2012 in Copenhagen

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If the downtown of tomorrow looks like most of

the redevelopment projects being planned for

it today, it will end up a monumental bore. But

downtown could be made lively and exciting --

and it’s not too hard to find out how.

This year is going to be a critical one for the

future of the city. All over the country civic

leaders and planners are preparing a series of

redevelopment projects that will set the char-

acter of the center of our cities for generations

to come. Great tracts, many blocks wide, are

being razed; only a few cities have their new

downtown projects already under construction;

but almost every big city is getting ready to

build, and the plans will soon be set.

What will the projects look like? They will be

spacious, parklike, and uncrowded. They will

feature long green vistas. They will be stable

and symmetrical and orderly. They will be

clean, impressive, and monumental!

Read More....