{"592097":{"#nid":"592097","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Cities, Regions, and Growth: Smart, Inclusive, Equitable?  57th ACSP Annual Conference.  ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith its explosive amenity-driven growth, the Denver metropolitan region is emblematic of much of the American West. While growth brings tremendous economic opportunities, it is often accompanied by significant challenges, such as: housing supply shortages and increasing housing costs; land consumption and loss of open space; increasing exposure to natural hazards; traffic congestion and delay; inability to scale transit to meet demand; lack of coordination between jurisdictions; inequitable public education; sectoral imbalance in the economy; gentrification; and congestion of amenities. But amidst these challenges, regional growth also offers valuable opportunities for cities to redefine, re-invent, and revitalize themselves. In Denver, for instance, we see a renaissance in infill development and an overall increase in density, walkability, mixed use, and traditional design elements in the urban core\u0026mdash;accompanied by a reverse migration of many back from the suburbs to the city. This reinvestment in central places has brought with it a vibrant mix of uses and allowed transit to become feasible in places where previously it was not, opening up a less automobile-intensive lifestyle to large numbers of people. Yet, such development must be carefully managed to avoid uneven development, gentrification-induced displacement, out-migration of poor and minority resident from urban cores to under-invested suburbs, and loss of public goods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow do we create a more inclusive strategy to leverage opportunities from growth to promote a sustainable, equitable, and healthy metropolis? Our theme welcomes discussion of all these tangled threads that form the complex tapestry of growing and changing metropolitan regions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.acsp.org\/?page=ConfACSP\u0022\u003EACSP website\u003C\/a\u003E for more information\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow do we create a more inclusive strategy to leverage opportunities from growth to promote a sustainable, equitable, and healthy metropolis? Our theme welcomes discussion of all these tangled threads that form the complex tapestry of growing and changing metropolitan regions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Conference on equity and smart growth in cities and regions. "}],"uid":"34447","created_gmt":"2017-05-24 18:32:08","changed_gmt":"2017-05-25 13:26:31","author":"bdiacetis3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-10-12T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-10-15T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-10-15T01:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-10-12 05:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-10-15 05:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-10-15 05:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.acsp.org\/?page=ConfACSP","title":"ACSP Conference website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167301","name":"smart growth"},{"id":"306","name":"equity"},{"id":"865","name":"regional planning"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}