Sustainable Communities & Redevelopment - The Role of Land-Use Planning

Redevelopment within our cities is becoming an increasingly important aspect of continued development. Seminar Leader Shawn Ripley will provide an overview of elements of New Urbanism, traditional neighborhood design, the reining in of urban sprawl, and transit oriented development as elements and drivers of redevelopment.Those aspects of sustainability that define community resilience such as increased densities, walk-ability, and the human-infrastructure integration can be enhanced through re-development. This half-day Seminar will explore the dynamics of urban land-use planning and the intersection with community sustainability plans.

Mark Anielski & Genuine Wealth - Creating Resilient Communities

The Genuine Wealth Accounting (GWA) model, developed by Mark Anielski, is a sustainability planning, measurement and management tool that involves a number of steps in a life-cycle process. GWA helps organizations measure, assess and manage their total wealth (the conditions of well-being) -- human, social, natural, produced, and financial capital assets. These assets are the resources (the common wealth) to be managed for the common good of the community both for current and future generations.The result is a regular well-being assessment of the genuine wealth of the community including an annual “Genuine Wealth State of the Community” report, a Genuine Wealth Index (a composite measure of total well-being) and a “comparative wealth advantage” audit of the community vis-à-vis other communities.