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| #e.22535 | Wednesday 12:00PM to 1:15PM
January 23,
2013 | CM | 0.75 |
Viewing of Growing Beautiful CommunitiesAPA California Chapter, Sacramento Valley SectionSacramento, CA Free event Policy in Motion: Growing Beautiful Communities is an independently-produced documentary building upon the themes in Lauren Michele’s book Policy in Motion: Transportation Planning in California after AB 32. Through interviews with policy leaders and planners in transportation and sustainability ¬fields, Growing Beautiful Communities depicts how the POD (People Oriented Development) concept can be used as a process to not only help California meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals but also to create sustainable communities and beautiful places to live. POD is driven by six main areas explored in the film: Job Growth, Community Schools, Places to Play, Quality Travel, Resource Management, and Housing Diversity. Growing Beautiful Communities depicts how an integrated approach to transportation planning and funding can improve community quality of life while meeting California’s environmental and economic goals.
This film discusses oftentimes overlooked trends and synergy that can be capitalized on in the current planning context. With awareness of environmental stewardship at record levels and an influx of residents returning to the city core, Growing Beautiful Communities discusses the complimentary approaches that can be implemented in the many sub-disciplines of planning. Viewers will leave this film with a greater understanding of the complex relationships between various components of the city fabric and fresh inspiration for creating communities that are economically and socially healthy due to the integrated approaches explored in the film.
This event is a brown bag lunch. Following the documentary is a facilitated question/answer discussion with Lauren Michele.
More Instructors: Lauren Michele Lauren Michele, Principal/Founder of Policy in Motion, earned her Master’s of Science degree from the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies after working as a transportation planning professional in Sacramento at Fehr & Peers for several years, a climate change policy analyst in Washington D.C. at the Center for Clean Air Policy, and an air quality program assistant at the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District. Ms. Michele’s background extends from in-classroom teaching of undergraduate courses in Transportation Policy to experiential learning while living and researching multi-modal transportation planning in Europe. She has built strategic relationships at the state and federal level which aided her work as a transportation and climate change policy analyst at the UC Davis Urban Land Use and Transportation Center (ULTRANS) – focusing on the links between California’s Senate Bill 375 and developing federal climate/energy legislation and the transportation reauthorization. Her combined knowledge as a practicing transportation planning consultant and sustainable policy analyst has given her a foundation to build a vision for how to connect federal/state funding priorities and legislative developments with local/regional implementation of projects and programs. In a time where transportation policy efforts are pointing toward economic, environmental, and equitable stewardship, Lauren Michele offers planning practitioners, policy makers, and public participants an understanding of how sustainability policy impacts community values.
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