"True Urbanism: Designing the Healthy City"

CALL FOR PAPERS
46th International Making Cities Livable Conference on
"True Urbanism: Designing the Healthy City"
La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM, June 1-5, 2008
Co-sponsored by The City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe County & NM Dept. of
Transportation
Co-organized with the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture

For more information, see www.LivableCities.org/46ConfSantaFe.htm
An international conference for city officials, developers,
practitioners and scholars in planning, urban design, architecture,
landscape architecture, transportation planning, health policy and
social sciences from many parts of the world. Purpose: to engage in a
dialogue on the relationship between the built environment and
livability, health and sustainability; to learn from the best models,
and to establish working relationships to effect change.
Paper topics include:
Sustainable Urban Design ** Planning Pedestrian & Bike Networks **
Transit Oriented Design ** Traditional Urban Planning ** The Built
Environment, Social & Physical Health ** New Designs for Human Scale
Mixed-Use Urban Fabric ** The Walkable "City of Short Distances" **
Urban Form & Well-Being ** Redesigning Suburban Malls as Neighborhood
Centers ** Designing Town Squares for Social Life ** Building
Community Identity ** New Achievements in Urban Transit ** Respecting
Regional Character & Historic Heritage ** Transforming Commuter
Suburbs into Mixed-use Urban Villages ** Child- & Family-friendly
Urban Planning ** Integrating Diversity through Urban Planning **
Community Participation in Urban Planning.

Please send a 250 word abstract to: Suzanne.Lennard@LivableCities.org.
Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard Ph.D.(Arch.), Program Committee Chair, IMCL
Conferences, PO Box 7586, Carmel, CA 93921. Fax: +1- 831-624-5126. Paper
abstracts must be prepared for blind peer review (as email attachments).
Cover letter or email should identify the author. deadline for paper
proposals: October 31, 2007. Notification sent within 4 weeks of
submission. Accepted papers must be presented in person at the
conference.