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Several great upcoming events

Spring has sprung – at least in terms of conference season.  Check out these great upcoming events that you truly won’t want to miss!!


  • Complete Streets Community Workshop

    • This Thursday evening 6-8pm at the Gaelic League in Detroit (2068 Michigan Avenue)

    • The Detroit Health and Wellness Promotion Department along with the Detroit Complete Streets Coalition are hosting this event on how Complete Streets can improve walking, biking, and public transportation in the city. Richard Wooten from MSU-Extension will give an overview of Complete Streets, what they look like and how they benefit everyone. Slows BBQ is catering this event.

  • Making LEED Neighborhood Development Happen in Your Community:  How Planners Can Leverage Its Advantages
    • This Friday from 8am-5pm at Lawrence Tech in Southfield
    • Cost: $45.00, Online Registration Required
    • The US Green Building Council has rolled out the new LEED for Neighborhood Development program (LEED ND). The Detroit Regional Chapter has assembled top experts in the field, putting together an intensive one-day interactive forum packed with practical strategies and tools for planners to begin implementing LEED ND in their communities.
      Participants – who will include community planners, consultants, government officials, regional organization representatives, and students and faculty – will come away with a solid foundation on the LEED ND rating system, its underlying principles, and the tremendous advantages it can bring to their local communities. Effective strategies for encouraging and promoting LEED ND developments and streamlining the project approval process will be explored.
    • With questions, please contact Bob Prud’homme 248-765-1761

  • Summit on Transforming Transportation: Economies & Communities 

    • April 7-9, 2011 at the Westin Book Cadillac 

    • Next week, business and labor leaders, policymakers, innovators, and research scholars from the U.S. and abroad will convene in Detroit. Their mission will be to advance knowledge, systems, and solutions that can transform the future of transportation and revitalize economies and communities in Michigan and beyond. The program will combine high level plenary sessions with focused, collaborative working sessions, an open poster session, many opportunities for sharing work, and local social and cultural visits in Detroit. Among other outcomes, participants will contribute to the development of a research and action agenda on Transforming Transportation.

  • “Detroit By Design” – Symposium To Highlight Transportation and the Detroit Works Project

    • Hosted by the American Institute of Architects Detroit Urban Priorities Committee at the Detroit Public Library.

    • How does transportation help lay the groundwork for healthy growth in the city and region? How do we promote diversity in transportation choices and connectivity? How do we create more walkable communities? How do we ensure light rail promotes sustainable communities? These are just some of the questions that will be asked when Detroit By Design brings together architects, community and business leaders, public officials, allied professionals and other key stakeholders in the region. 

    • Wednesday April 13 from 1 pm- 7:30pm – Discussion sessions featuring a distinguished group of panelists (including TRU Director Megan Owens), UPC members, local residents, community leaders, public officials, local architects, allied professionals, and area school faculty and students, who will conduct a community workshop.