PDF files of all the PowerPoint presentations collected from speakers before the conference are posted below in alphabetical order by session title. We also made them available on the Conference Program page below the listed speakers for each session.
Please Note: We may not have been able to capture all of the presentations before the conference, and not all speakers have given us permission to post their presentation.
Target the Right Places and Policies to Make Your Community More Livable: AARP Livability Index
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Accountable Development: Moving Community from the Back Seat to the Drivers Seat
Saturday, 1:45-3:15 PM
Innovative Approaches to Support Agricultural Landscapes in Healthy Metropolises
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Unlikely Allies for More Livable Communities
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Beyond Talk: A Tool for Planning and Evaluating Equitable-Development Projects and Plans
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Beyond Widgets: Scaling Up Food Enterprises in America’s Foodiest Small Town
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
The Bike Accessible Transit Agency: Implementation Tools and Stories
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Re-envisioning Bio-Diversity: Integrating Pollinator Habitat into Existing Urban and Rural Frameworks
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Moving from Blight Management to Proactive Land-Use Decisions
Saturday, 1:45-3:15 PM
Building on Our Assets: Data-Based Approaches to Community-Powered Revitalization
Saturday, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM
Financing Lifelong Community Suburban Retrofits for the Boomers and Beyond
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Citizens Ingenuity and Impact Assessment
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Collaborative Problem-Solving Through Public Interest Design – includes box lunch
Saturday, 10:15 AM-3:15 PM
Community-Gathered Data as Resiliency: DIY Research for Better Land Use Decision Making
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
America‘s Grand Strategy Starts With Community Leadership
Friday, 8:30-9:45 AM
Federal-Level Data Tools for Achieving More Equitable Community Development
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Community Power and City Action: Solar Farming in the Refinery’s Backyard
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Community Strategies in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: A Los Angeles Perspective
Saturday, 10:30 AM-12 PM
Comprehensive Planning & Smart Growth: Integrating Sustainability into Your Community’s Comprehensive Plan
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Crowdfunding the Future: New Opportunities for Collaborative Community Building
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Detroit Revisited: How Are We Doing?
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Strategies for Diversifying Economies of Small and Mid-sized Communities
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
The Dollars and $ense of Smart Growth
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Engaging Farmers of Color Pioneering Climate-Change Mitigation
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Urban New Entrepreneurial Economy: Livable Communities Attract Millennials to Boomers
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Ethics, Equity and Sustainable Communities
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Eyesores to Eye Candy: Land Recycling Strategies
Saturday, 10:30 AM-12 PM
Equitable Creative Placemaking: Fact or Fiction
Saturday, 10:30 AM-12 PM
Fastrak to Opportunity: CT’s First Rapid Transit Corridor
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Financing Smart Rural Places: Wealth Building Tools to Propel Economic Transition
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
From Trickle to Torrent: Resilient Strategies for an Uncertain Water Future
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Getting to Zero: Navigating Implementation of Zero-Emissions Technology in Projects and Planning
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Green Infrastructure Strategies for Community Resilience: Planning, Maintenance, & Workforce Development
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
How to Achieve Multiple Benefits from Implementing Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Saturday, 1:45-3:15 PM
The Hawaiian “Secret Sauce” to Smart Growth
Saturday, 1:45-3:15 PM
Hazagation: Simultaneously Planning for Natural Hazards and Climate Change
Saturday, 1:45-3:15 PM
High-Tech/High-Touch Tools Workshop
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Techniques for Providing Diverse, Equitable, and Affordable Housing Choices
Saturday, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM
Equitable Development and Smart Growth at an Impasse?
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Community Wealth Building and Sustainability: Innovation in Native Communities
Saturday, 10:30 AM-12 PM
The Investment Areas Story: Integrated Regional Growth Strategy Implementation
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Tools for Achieving Jobs-Housing Fit and Avoiding Displacement in Smart Growth Areas
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Leveraging the Approval Process to Get the Development You Want
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
Livable Neighborhood Super Tools for Disadvantaged Communities
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Maximizing Health Care Investments in Your Community: Creating Health Oriented Neighborhoods (HONs)
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Mayors’ Challenge for Safer People, Safer Streets
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
#MoreThanAVillage: Collaboration and Climate-Change Adaptation
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Moving Forward without Leaving them Behind: Open Spaces for an Aging Population
Saturday, 10:30 AM-12 PM
MultiCultural, MultiEthnic and MultiMedia: New Partners and Tools for PolicyMakers/Practitioners
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Tackling Poverty and Environmental Sustainability through Public Interest Design
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
No Drama? Actually, We Want More on Rural Main Streets!
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Park Poor No More?
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Implementing Parking Policy Reform
Saturday, 1:45-3:15 PM
The Path to Implementation: Innovative Tools to Make Your Plans Happen
Saturday, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM
Where’s the Money: 2016 Smart Growth and Philanthropy
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Planning WITH People: Using Creative Placemaking to Engage, Celebrate, Design
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
The Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Transformation of Public Spaces
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Resilient Recovery and Sustainable Redevelopment: Making the Connections, Making Progress
Thursday, 12:30-1 PM
Rethinking Education: Schools as a Tool for Economic Revitalization
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Rooting and Capturing Local Wealth: Tools and Strategies to Make It Stick
Saturday, 10:30 AM-1:30 PM
Sea-Level Rise to Tsunamis: Strategies for Coastal Resilience
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Optimizing Community Benefits with Shared Mobility
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Small Area Planning: How to Assure Responsive and Equitable Redevelopment Outcomes
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Smart Growth 101
Thursday, 8:30-9:45 AM
Understanding the Benefits of Special District Financing
Saturday, 10:30 AM-12 PM
New Tool for Engaging Community Stakeholders in Smart School Siting Decisions
Thursday, 1:30-3 PM
Stemming the Tide of Transit-Oriented Displacement: Innovative Analysis, Policy and Funding
Saturday, 10:30 AM-12 PM
Step It Up: Statewide Efforts to Improve Community Design and Active Travel
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Survey Says: What Do Americans Really Want?
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
How the Work of Growing Resilient, Sustainable Food Systems Can Nourish Smart-Growth Initiatives
Thursday, 8:30-9:45 AM
Tales from the Trenches: Culture, Love, Equity Planning and Real Talk
Friday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Tent Encampments and Tiny Houses: A Crisis Response to Homelessness
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
The FAST and the CURIOUS! What the New Transportation Bill Means for Smart Growth
Saturday, 1:45-3:15 PM
Tools of the Trade: Securing Funds and Engaging Communities in Brownfields Redevelopment
Friday, 1:30-3 PM
Transportation Health Tool: A New Tool to Drive Policy Decisions
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
What Water Agencies Are Afraid to Tell Land-Use Decision-Makers
Friday, 10:15-11:45 AM
We’re Talking Tactics: Fast Installations to make Community Spaces
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Whose Streets? Our Streets!
Thursday, 3:30-5:30 PM
Young Women for Smart Growth
Friday, 1:30-3 PM