READING LIST

There is a wealth of material online about urban development, the urban transformation of suburbs, and suburbs as business locations. Here are articles, speeches and presentations that can help you prepare for the conference.

• William Hudnut Presents to ULI St. Louis — Jim Baer, St. Louis Commerce magazine
• The Smart Community Concept — William Hudnut, keynote speech at the sixth annual Cities of the Future Conference
• Brainstorming Session — William Hudnut for the Urban Land Institute blog “The Ground Floor”
• Opening Up the Suburbs — Anthony Downs, author
• Neighborhoods and Urban Development — Anthony Downs, author
• The Costs of Sprawl Revisited April 2004 — Anthony Downs, speech presented at the ULI District Council Meeting in Washington, D.C.
• What Does 'Smart Growth' Really Mean? — Anthony Downs, Planning magazine
• The Impacts Of Smart Growth Upon The Economy — Anthony Downs, speech to the Land Use Institute of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
• A Radical Way to Fix Suburban Sprawl — Lisa Selin Davis, Time
• New Rail Lines Spur Urban Revival — Amy Cortese, New York Times
• Jobs continue shift to suburbs from downtowns — Laura Petrecca, USA Today
• Retrofitting Suburbia — Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson
• Car-Free in America? — Commentary on NYtimes.com
• A Shopping Mall Becomes a City — Lisa Selin Davis, Grist.org
• Putting the Urban in Suburban, Alan Ehrenhalt, Governing magazine
• Breaking the Suburban Mold — Tom Condon, The Courant
• How the Crash Will Reshape America — Richard Florida, Atlantic Monthly
• A Conversation with Andrés Duany, Architect, Co-Founder of Congress for the New Urbanism, author of Suburban Nation and developer of Urban Transect Theory — Michael Mehaffy
• ‘First’ Suburbs Growing Older and Poorer — Bruce Lambert for Wired New York
• Study on Housing Trends Among Baby Boomers — Gary V. Engelhardt for the Research Institute for Housing America
• The Redevelopment of a City is an Art — Interview with Charles Landry in Spiegel Online International
• A Chance to Make a Real City Out of Tysons — Roger K. Lewis, The Washington Post

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