The Shape of Our Lives: Sprawl and Urban Planning Forum on CSPAN2 3pm

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2006 Virginia Festival of the Book: The Shape of Our Lives: Sprawl and Urban Planning: Douglas Morris "It's a Sprawl World After All" and Suzanne Morse "Smart Communities"

From the 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, a panel discussion about ways to reshape and improve American communities. The panelists are Douglas Morris, author of "It's a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth and Visions of a Better Future," and Suzanne Morse, author of "Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future."

Douglas Morris is the author of five books, including the travel guides "Italy Guide" and "Florence Made Easy." Suzanne Morse is the president of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change and the author of "Public Leadership Education: Skills for Democratic Citizenship - Get Involved!" and "Renewing Civic Capacity: Preparing College Students for Service and Citizenship."

[JanMichael]

1. Hell since Nolan died planning has been destroyed by the automobile...

...and the ensuing sprawl. I should add that planning as a field has been removed from design and placed in administration so the car addled minds of professional engineers wrote most of the countries land-use code. Not planners but utilitarians.

Which I dare say is a crime on a massive ecological scale.

Unless of course one is a complete troglodyte who wants to live in a plastic commuter world with no sense of place or community...

Will they have Duany or Kunstler on too?

I should add that we've dumped cable so I can't watch it...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. stream it from the Cspan site

http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp

[JanMichael]

3. No speakers.

Seriously. We're about a month from an complete home system overhaul.