PDF files of nearly all of the PowerPoint presentations given at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference are available for FREE download. Please note that not all of the speakers at the conference used PowerPoint for their presentations, and some speakers did not give us permission to post their presentation.
Presentations are listed on this page in alphabetical order by session title. You can also find presentations by visiting the session by time page and clicking on the presentation link near each session description.
A Barn-Raising Approach to Community Wealth: Community Heart and Soul
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
A Tale of Two Land Banks
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
A Vote at the Table: Building Equitable Boards and Commissions
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Actionable Plans Lead to Investment
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Affordable Rural Rental Homes: Housing Your Workforce and Your Grandma
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Appealing Places to Live: Public-Private Partnerships to Develop Attainable Housing
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Beyond Healthcare Forum: Charting the National Healthy Communities Platform
Saturday, 11 AM-1:30 PM
Brown Is the New Green: Green Infrastructure in Brownfields Revitalization
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Building Urban Resilience through Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Global Perspective
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Choosing Smart Locations: A New Tool for Siting Workplaces
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Cities Get Smarter: Smart Growth and the Internet of Things
Friday, 9-10:15 AM
Citizen Ingenuity and Impact Assessment
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
City Youth Use Research, Films to Address St. Louis Segregation
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Collaboration for Community Health through Street Design
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Communities as Coaches: Devising Game Plans for Equity and Resilience
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Creating a Culture of Health in Rural Appalachia
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Dellwood: The Untold Story
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Don‘t Be Left Behind: Make Your Community More Walkable Now
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Embedding Arts into Community Development: Perspectives from Five National Organizations
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Emerging Urban Economies: Rethinking Strategies that Work for Cities, Neighborhoods and Businesses
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Equitable Climate Policy: From Community Engagement to Large-Scale Investments
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Equitable Development 101: Social Equity by Design
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Evaluating and Implementing Local Sales Tax Distribution Equity
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Exploring Solar Streamlining and Historic Preservation
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Financial Innovations for Homeownership in Distressed Communities
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Finding a Common Language: Performance Metrics for Key Stakeholders
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Fiscal-Impact Analysis in Rural Communities
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Food Innovation Clusters: Creating Robust and Resilient Regional Food Systems
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Getting States On-Board: Reaching Your Climate (and Other!) Goals through Smart Growth
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Getting the Deal Done: Creating and Preserving Affordable Housing in Your Community
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Graywater Realities: Encouraging Widespread Adoption at the Local Level
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Growing Grassroots “Good Growth” Group
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Having Faith in Equitable Communities: Energizing Neighborhoods, Creating Opportunities
Saturday, 3:10-4 PM
Healthy Communities for All Ages: Case Studies on Promising Practices
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Housing Solutions: Accessing the American Dream
Thursday, 10-11:50 AM
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Open Data
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Improving Food Equity in Three Innovative Communities in the U.S.
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Innovative Development of Public Right-of-Ways for a Sustainable Future
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Integrating Fair and Affordable Housing into TODs: Partnerships, Design, Access
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Growth in Cities: Displacement and Neighborhood Change Research and Practice
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Is Resilience Just a Buzzword? Or Is It the New Normal?
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Leveraging Hospital Resources to Invest in Healthy, Sustainable Communities
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Leveraging Resources: How to Fund Community Revitalization Projects
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Leveraging Social Capital to Increase Social Equity, Sustainability and Resiliency
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Marketing and Design in Government: Thinking of Residents as Clients to Achieve Impact
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Meaningful Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Missing Middle Housing: A New Tool to Address Your Housing Challenges
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Organizational Capacity Building Through Empowerment Planning
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Planning and Regulating Housing Options for Changing Demographics
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Planting Resilience: One Tree at a Time
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Practical Strategies for Developing Empowering and Inclusive Creative Placemaking Initiatives
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Promoting Entrepreneurship in Underserved and Immigrant Communities Adds to Urban Economic Success
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Rebounding Neighborhoods in St. Louis: Practical Strategies for Redevelopment
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Regional Planning to Build Local Food Economies and Healthy Communities
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
Reinventing Local Economies with Place-Based Approaches: Examples from Coal Country
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Rural Roundtable: Applying Smart-Growth Principles to Rural Design
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Scaling Solutions: Unleashing Innovation by Partnering with Philanthropy
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Scaling Up: Thinking Megaregionally in Long-Range Planning
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Seeing Trees Differently: Strategies, Tools, & Technology for Greening Infrastructure
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Show Me the Money: Policies and Programs in Action
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Silo-Busters: Promise Initiatives for Community Health and Economic Vitality
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Smaller Cities: Emerging Leaders Forging the Way to Competitive Places
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Smart-Cities Tech for Non-Techies: Getting to Know Smart-City Technology
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Smart Growth 101
Thursday, 8-9:30 AM
Smart Infill Training Workshop: Kickstart Community Revitalization, Foster Economic Development, and Improve Housing Choices
Saturday, 11 AM-1:30 PM
Some Assembly Required: Lessons Learned in Complete Streets Implementation
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Strategies for Designing without Displacement
Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Successful Approaches to Resiliency: Planning Capacity Building and Other Useful Tools
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Successful Implementation Strategies from Our Nation’s Working Waterfronts
Saturday, 1:45-3 PM
Sustainable Rural Communities from Kansas to California
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
The 24:1 Initiative: Reverse Years of Decline through Innovative Partnerships
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Model
Saturday, 11 AM-3 PM
The New Mobility: Planning in an Era of Autonomous Vehicles
Saturday, 9-10:30 AM
The New Mobility: Planning in an Era of Autonomous Vehicles
Saturday, 11 AM-12:15 PM
The Wheels on the Bus Go to the Grocery Store
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Transforming Built Environment Spaces into PLAYces
Friday, 1:30-2:45 PM
Transit: The Backbone of Shared Mobility
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM
Urban Agriculture: Infrastructure and Impact
Friday, 10:45 AM-12 PM
Walking the Inclusionary-Zoning Tightrope
Thursday, 3:15-5:15 PM
What Works? The Social Science of Real-World Decision Making (3:15-5:30pm)
Friday, 3:15-5:15 PM