March 11, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Disney's Grand Californian
Resort & Spa
1600 S. Disneyland Drive
Anaheim, CA 92803
Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle
and the Urban Land Institute
- Keynote Address
Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan is a contributing editor for the Atlantic and a staff writer for The New Yorker. An award-winning journalist, her writing has also appeared in Time Magazine (July 2, 2009 cover story "Is There Hope for the American Marriage?"), the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and O: the Oprah Magazine. Her essays have been anthologized in the Best American Essays and Best American Magazine Writing series, and she is the winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. Her books include To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, and the forthcoming Girl Land (Little, Brown), which is an exploration of the emotional lives of pubescent girls. Before becoming a writer, she was a schoolteacher for ten years. She is married and the mother of eleven-year old twin boys.
- Morning Panel: Community Values vs. Property Rights
Dr. Emily Talen
Dr. Emily Talen teaches at Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and is an affiliate faculty at the university's School of Sustainability. At ASU, Talen teaches urban design, principles of urbanism, mapping urbanism, urban geography, and new urbanism research interests include urban form, sustainable cities, and new urbanism.
Talen is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Urbanism and serves on the editorial boards of Open Urban Studies Journal and Urban Morphology.
Her research focuses on exploring the spatial patterns of American cities. Most often this work incorporates GIS as a tool of exploration, for example in the investigation of accessibility, spatial equity, sprawl and ideal urban form. Talen does not take a detached, technicist view of urban form, for she believes that planners should be active advocates for a saner urban development pattern. She promotes an urban spatial pattern that overcomes automobile dependence, increases accessibility, promotes diversity, and discourages suburban sprawl.
Talen received a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to that, she worked for six years as a professional planner in Santa Barbara and Columbus, Ohio. Before moving to the ASU, she taught at the University of Illinois's (Urbana-Champaign) School of Urban and Regional Planning. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
She received a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995. Prior to that, she worked as a planner for the City of Santa Barbara for 6 years. Talen has more than 30 publications in refereed journals on a variety of topics dealing with urban sprawl, city form and pattern, new urbanism, and the social implications of community design.
Samuel Staley
Samuel Staley, Ph.D., is director of urban growth and land use policy at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. He speaks regularly throughout the U.S. and abroad, giving speeches on urban policy and transportation, testifying before federal and state legislative committees, and providing expert perspective to the news media. He blogs regularly on Reason Foundation's Out of Control Policy Blog and on Interchange hosted by the professional planning web portal Planetizen.com.
Staley is the author of several books, most recently co-authoring Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive 21st Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Staley and Moore "get it right" and world bank urban planner Alain Bartaud called it "a must read for urban managers of large cities in the United States and around the world."
He is also co-author, with Ted Balaker, of The Road More Traveled: Why The Congestion Crisis Matters More Than You Think, and What We Can Do About It (Rowman and Littlefield, September, 2006).
Staley's previous book, Smarter Growth: Market-based Strategies for Land-use Planning in the 21st Century (Greenwood Press, 2001), was called the "most thorough challenge yet to regional land-use plans" by Planning magazine.
His more than 100 professional articles, studies, and reports have appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Investor's Business Daily, Journal of the American Planning Association, Planning magazine, Reason magazine, National Review and many others.
Staley's approach to urban development, transportation and public policy blends more than 20 years of experience as an economic development consultant, academic researcher, urban policy analyst, and community leader.
Staley teaches graduate and undergraduate urban economics as an adjunct in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Dayton. Staley is a former chair his local planning board in his hometown of Bellbrook, Ohio. He is also a former member of its Board of Zoning Appeals and Property Review Commission, vice chair of his local park district's open space master plan committee, and chair of its Charter Review Commission.
Staley received his B.A. in Economics and Public Policy from Colby College, M.S. in Social and Applied Economics from Wright State University, and Ph.D. in Public Administration, with concentrations in urban planning and public finance from Ohio State University.
Larry Webb
With nearly 30 years experience in residential building, Larry has led award-winning organizations throughout the United States. Between 1995 and 2008, he was Chief Executive Officer of John Laing Homes. During that period, he was involved in growing Laing from a small, two-market company to the second largest private homebuilder in the United States. Along the way, Laing became a model for customer service and employee satisfaction within the homebuilding industry. Prior to joining John Laing Homes, he was Division President for Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties for Kaufman & Broad, as well as Orange County President of Greystone Homes. Most recently, Larry was appointed Chief Restructuring Officer for LandSource and successfully negotiated a work-out plan of large land-holdings across the United States.
John A. Ramirez
John A. Ramirez is a partner of the Rutan & Tucker LLP law firm, specializing in municipal and government agency and land use and natural resources law. Prior to joining Rutan & Tucker, Ramirez served as a staff attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, where he represented land owners on various land use, constitutional law, exaction and rent control cases. Prior to that, he was an attorney at the Sacramento-based law firm Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, where John focused on constitutional law, election law, and government law.
Before attending law school, Ramirez served in the administration of former
California Governor Pete Wilson as an Executive Fellow in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, where John worked on infrastructure and housing policy issues. John later worked for the Governor's Office of Planning & Research.
Ramirez graduated from the University of California, Hastings School of Law, where he was a member of the Hastings Law Journal. During law school, he was chosen to work for California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Werdegar as a Judicial Extern. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Irvine.
In 2002, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a leading legal newspaper, named Ramirez as one of the "Top 20 Lawyers in the State Under 40." In 2005 and 2006, based on the recommendations of his peers, Law & Politics Magazine listed him as "Rising Star" in its annual Super Lawyer survey.
- Luncheon Speaker
Joel Kotkin
An internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends, Joel Kotkin is the author of a new book, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. The book explores how the nation will evolve in the next four decades.
His previous, critically acclaimed book, The City: A Global History, was published in 2006 by Random House/Modern Library, with editions published in China, Spain, UK and the British Commonwealth, Japan and Korea.
Kotkin is Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and an Adjunct Fellow with the Legatum Institute based in London, UK. A highly respected speaker and futurist, he consults for many leading economic development organizations, private companies, regions and cities. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Center for an Urban Future in New York City; and a Senior Consultant with the Praxis Strategy Group in Fargo, North Dakota.
For over three decades Kotkin has been one of the nation's most prolific and widely-published journalists. He currently writes the weekly "New Geographer" column for Forbes.com. He previously wrote the monthly "Grass Roots Business" column in The New York Times' Sunday Business section for several years. He served as West Coast Editor for Inc. Magazine for five years and continues to contribute to the publication. His work also appears in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The American and on Politico.com.
Mr. Kotkin lectures widely in the United States, UK , Asia, Australia and Europe and is sought after as a speaker by major business and financial organizations. Mr. Kotkin attended the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Yorker, he has lived in California since 1971. Mr. Kotkin lives in the Valley Village area of Los Angeles with his wife, Mandy Shamis, and two daughters.
- Afternoon Panel: Housing the Family in the 21st Century City: Strengthening and Sustaining Community
Thomas Tseng
Thomas Tseng is the principal and co-founder of New American Dimension, a multicultural marketing research and consulting firm. A seasoned research professional, Tseng has broad marketing, consulting, and research experience that spans across the private, nonprofit, academic and government sectors. In 2003, Tseng and his partners created New American Dimensions, which has become one of the nation's leading multicultural consulting and research agencies -- serving such clients as PepsiCo, Kraft, State Farm, General Motors, MTV, Disney and Novartis.
Prior to launching New American Dimensions, Tseng was Director of Marketing for Cultural Access Group where he first gained distinction in the ethnic marketing arena. Notably, he spearheaded influential research projects illuminating the growth opportunities of U.S. ethnic consumers -- including the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council's "Grow With America: Best Practices in Ethnic Marketing and Merchandising" and the Food Marketing Institute's "Hispanic Grocery Shopper" series.
Concurrently, he is a Research Fellow at the Davenport Institute for Public Policy at Pepperdine University, where he has authored several widely commended public policy studies, including: "Rewarding Ambition: Latinos, Housing, and the Future of California" (2002) and "Growing Urban Villages: Cultivating A New Paradigm For Growth and Development in California" (2006).
In his civic life, Tseng is President of the Board for Zócalo Public Square -- anon-profit lecture series based in Los Angeles. He also serves on the National Advisory Board for the First American Corporation and the Applied Research Center, and was a 2006-2007 Senior Fellow at UCLA's School of Public Affairs.
A native Angeleno, Tseng studied Economics and Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine and received his Master of Arts degree at UCLA's School of Public Affairs.
Beth Callender
Beth Callender is principal of Greenhaus, a marketing company headquartered in San Diego. With clients throughout the western United States, Greenhaus provides expertise in research, visioning, strategic planning, advertising, graphic design, direct marketing and lead management for the destination real estate industry.
Callender has over 20 years of experience in helping clients and the projects they build become market leaders. She assists clients with product innovation, brand recognition, placemaking, customer loyalty and market share. Her clients include The Irvine Company, DMB Associates, YarrowBay Holdings and builders of urban and infill housing. Greenhaus has branded and marketed projects in downtown San Diego, Los Angeles; resort properties throughout the Rockies and Mexico; and master planned communities in four states.
Callender has served as president of the San Diego American Marketing Association (AMA) and as a member of 10-person leadership council for AMA International; on leadership for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and on the board of PCBC. She has been a featured speaker at AMA, ULI, the International Downtown Association, the San Jose Downtown Association and PCBC.
Callender holds a B.A. from San Diego State University, where she studied journalism, marketing and consumer issues.
Robert Lupton
Robert Lupton is the president of FCS Urban Ministries, a nonprofit counseling agency for low-income clients. Established in 1976, FCS originally served children and families referred by Atlanta area juvenile courts, but eventually broadened its mission to pursue lasting solutions to some of the underlying causes of poverty.
Today, FCS Urban Ministries (as it is now known) is a community development organization. It focuses its work almost exclusively in four adjacent urban Atlanta neighborhoods: Summerhill, Grant Park, East Lake and South Atlanta. With a staff of sixty, most of whom live in these neighborhoods, FCS constructs housing, operates businesses and education programs for at-risk children, and provides other human services. It works closely with churches to mobilize people and resources that bring hope and creative new options to the city.
Attracting middle-income people of faith to relocate in urban communities has been one of the ministry's most significant efforts. It has developed four mixed-income subdivisions and is currently implementing this reneighboring strategy throughout the entire South Atlanta community. Its goal is to create in the midst of urban blight wholesome places for families to flourish.
Rich Flierl
Richard Flierl is the principal and founder of The Center for Connective Architecture, a multi-disciplined think tank which focuses on projects ranging from urban redevelopment and new town planning to transit-oriented development, public spaces, plazas, parks and entertainment districts. The Center is part of the design firm, Cooper Carry, which Flierl joined in 1998 with over fifteen years experience as an Urban Designer and Landscape Architect.
Flierl is currently guiding downtown planning efforts for Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Greensboro, North Carolina. Flierl has received numerous awards from the ASLA, AIA and many others for planning and design over the last decade. Rich is a frequent speaker, design juror and seminar leader. His engagements have included the University of Colorado, Colorado State University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as well as NAIOP, ULI and IDA.
He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA); The Congress for the New Urbanism; International Downtown Association (IDA); an associate with American Institute of Architects (AIA); Urban Land Institute (ULI); the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Society of Architectural Historians. Rich is registered in over a dozen states and sits on the Council of Landscape Architects Review Board.
- Closing Speaker
Michael Barone
Michael Barone is a Fox News Channel contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. He is Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. Michael Barone was formerly a senior writer with U.S. News & World Report. He grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Mich. He graduated from Harvard College (1966) and Yale Law School (1969), and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal.
Barone served as law clerk to Judge Wade H. McCree Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1969 to 1971. From 1974 to 1981, he was vice president of the polling firm of Peter D. Hart Research Associates. From 1981 to 1988, he was a member of the editorial page staff of The Washington Post. From 1996 to 1998, he was senior staff editor at Reader's Digest.
Barone is the principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal every two years. The first edition appeared in 1971, and the 17th edition, The Almanac of American Politics 2004, appeared in July 2003. He is also the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, 1990), The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again (Regnery, 2001) and the just-released Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Competition for the Nation's Future (Crown Forum, May 2004).
Over the years, Barone has written for many publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, National Review, The American Spectator, American Enterprise, The Times Literary Supplement and The Daily Telegraph of London. He is a contributor to the Fox News Channel and has appeared on many other television programs.
Barone lives in Washington, D.C. He has traveled to all 50 states and all 435 congressional districts. He has also traveled to 37 foreign countries and has reported on recent elections in Russia, Mexico, Italy and Britain.