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From Boom to BEST? The Future of Central Texas Start Date: Friday, October 19, 2007 Start Time: 11:30 a.m. End Date: Friday, October 19, 2007 End Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Four Seasons Hotel Austin 98 San Jacinto Boulevard Austin, TX  78701 View Map

We are at capacity for this event and are no longer accepting registrations. If you are interested in being on a waiting list, please call (512) 916-6037 .

Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince Charles Foundation for the Built Environment, will come together in an event moderated by Austin Mayor Will Wynn to discuss:

* How can the region foster development in compact, walkable communities -- both downtown and in the suburbs?

* How ready is the region for additional transit options?

* How can Central Texas boom economically and grow sustainably at the same time?

* What is the impact of successful mixed-use, urban development on housing prices and affordability?

This luncheon event is being co-sponsored by The Congress for the New Urbanism, Envision Central Texas, The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and The Real Estate Council of Austin. Individual tickets are $45. Sponsor tables of (10) are available for $600.

More about our presenters:

Andrés Duany is an award-winning architect and town planner and co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Since the design of Seaside twenty-five years ago, he and his wife and partner Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk have prepared over two hundred greenfield and infill urban plans, including those for Providence, Baton Rouge and West Palm Beach. Duany has been one of the most active and influential planners of the post-Katrina Gulf Coast reconstruction. He and Plater-Zyberk are co-authors of Suburban Nation and The New Civic Art.

Hank Dittmar is Chief Executive of the Prince Charles foundation for the Built Environment, a leading British proponent of timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing and building. He is board chairman of the Congress for the New Urbanism which will hold its annual Congress in Austin from April 3-6, 2008. Dittmar was formerly the President & CEO of Reconnecting America and was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the White House Advisory Committee on Transportation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the President's Council on Sustainable Development's Metropolitan Working Group, which he chaired.

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