Elevate 2009: Climate Change and the New Frontiers of Urban Development

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Live Event - February 26 - 27, 2009



Overview

The University of Colorado Law Review Symposium—to be held in conjunction with the Leeds School of Business' annual Real Estate Conference—will bring together a diverse group of some of the nation's leading thinkers and practitioners in this arena to advance the increasingly rich, complex conversation about sustainable land use and real estate development in the age of global warming.

The Symposium is designed to explore on-the-ground solutions across a range of issues-from housing and transportation to energy and economic development-and the expanding roster of best-in-class sustainability frameworks and methods being applied to the built environment and urban development generally.

Featured speakers include:

  • writer and social critic James Howard Kunstler, University of Pennsylvania business and planning professor
  • author Witold Rybcyznski
  • Teddy Cruz, architect, design entrepreneur and an innovator of the new American city.

LISC Green Development Center program director, Madeline Fraser Cook will be presenting on a panel entitled, "Developing for Sustainability: Strategies in Real Estate, Land Use and Economic Development."

Schedule

> PDF Download full schedule with list of speakers. (PDF, 148 KB)

> Visit Symposium home page for more information.

LISC's Green Development Center is one of the symposium's sponsors.