CNU’s John Norquist To Speak at APA Workshop
John Norquist, former Mayor of Milwaukee and currently President & CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, will be in the St. Louis region on Thursday March 30th. Norquist will participate in a tour of New Town at St. Charles as well as speak at an evening workshop:
Mobile Workshop
The mobile workshop features a tour of New Town, the region’s largest new urbanist development. Plenary speaker John Norquist will join a tour featuring speakers from the City of St. Charles, Whittaker Homes and the Missouri Department of Conservation. Participants meet at Powder Valley and travel by bus to New Town.Planning Workshop
The evening begins with a reception and presentation of the 2006 St. Louis Metro Section Planning Awards. Encouraging and recognizing excellence in planning has been an important component of the American Planning Association since its inception. Categories for nomination are Outstanding Planning Awards for a Plan, for a Project, Program or Tool, for a Community Initiative, for a Student Project and for Implementation, the Dwight F. Davis Award for a Citizen Planner, and Distinguished Leadership Awards for a Professional Planner and for an Elected Official The plenary session features John Norquist. President and C.E.O., Congress for the New Urbanism, addressing the challenges of incorporating New Urbanist concepts in city and regional planning. Norquist led the revision of Milwaukee’s zoning code and reoriented development around walkable streets and public amenities such as the city’s 3.1-mile Riverwalk during his tenure as Mayor from 1988 to 2003.Workshop sessions follow three tracks: New Urbanism, Legal Issues and Innovative Practices. Six workshop sessions provide useful information and thoughtful discussion to assist in enhancing and developing successful St. Louis Region communities. Join fellow citizen and professional planners at the 2006 Planning Workshop to work toward improving the quality of our communities!
For additional information on place, date, time, content and cost please download the 2006 St. Louis APA Planning Workshop Brochure.
More information from the St. Louis APA here. Hopefully this will inspire me to finish a post on New Town.
[UPDATE 3/29/06 – 9am, corrected that Norquist was mayor of Milwaukee, not Minneapolis. ]
– Steve
I think Norquist was actually the mayor of Milwaukee.
Steve; I you are planning to attend this workshop, please post your thoughts on this site.
Norquist was awesome. He actually got a stretch of freeway torn down in 2002. Torn down! Forever! It was a useless spur that went nowhere, but still, in this day and age — what an acomplishment!
Milwaukee now has 16 acres of raw land just waiting for new development, right in downtown (just north of where I work, actually.)