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Friday, 03 December 2010 12:27

Written by Diana Nelson Jones

If you missed hearing Peter Calthorpe’s speech at the 10th annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference, which was held here in October, you can hear it on WDUQ-90.5fm Sunday at 6p.

The keynote will be posted online Monday. (This artwork by Harry Lupinacci, illustrates the ideas and some of the people who spoke at the conference.)

.As a founding member of the Congress of New Urbanism, Peter is an architect, urban designer and consultant on all matters smart — human scale communities with fewer cars, reinvestment in cities, ending policies that encourage sprawl and creating density in the name of land preservation, walkability, community-building and mass transit.

Read more about his urban network concept, in which he encourages walkable town centers surrounded by neighborhoods heavy with trees that are close together and anchored by a grocery.

Scott London’s interview with him in 2002 includes discussion on Portland, Oregon’s legislated growth limits and the defeating policies that have encouraged low-density suburbanization.

The annual conference, which is sponsored by Sustainable Pittsburgh, focused this year on regional collaboration and investing in sustainable communities.

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