| Presentations + Educational Opportunities
The ideas we have originated and the best practices we have documented are regularly shared at national workshops, conferences and symposia. The following highlights upcoming events and catalogs some of our most well attended and requested conference presentations.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES |
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| Advanced Residential Development, Washington DC |
June 11 - 14, 2010 |
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This four day ULI class is part of the Certificate in Real Estate Development curriculum. In addition to extensive project tours and presentations from development and design team members, this course also includes valuable in-class “skills sessions” on feasibility, sales and marketing, financing and capital structures, and planning and design. Using some of the DC areas recent and most celebrated residential projects as their laboratory, course will expose students to innovative concepts in residential development. The course is designed for those confident in their general skills and knowledge of residential development, but looking for more advanced thinking in best practices. |
| Jim Heid — Instructor |
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| Developing Sustainable Communities, Austin TX |
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Building on ULI’s Principles and Practices of Sustainable Development workshop, this new ULI program will provide attendees with detailed information, rules of thumb, metrics, and evolving science surrounding sustainable land development. Hands-on exercises will demonstrate how programming, planning, and design impact development decisions that have a direct and indirect effect on a community’s sustainability. This workshop will address a range of factors influencing a community’s sustainability including water resource management, stormwater management, transportation design, energy usage and reduction, and carbon emissions. Case studies will illustrate current best practices including resource efficiency, transportation impacts and alternatives, renewable energy production, social equity strategies, and emerging programs. |
| Jim Heid — Instructor |
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Design Colloquium 2010 for ‘Design First Firms’ sponsored by Breuer Consulting and Cameron McAllister Group,
San Francisco CA |
May 13, 2010 |
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How will the burgeoning sustainability ethic affect design outcomes? |
| Jim Heid — Speaker |
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| Green Infrastructure, The Backbone of the Sustainable Community, ULI Th!nk, Sacramento District Council |
Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
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While the focus of green has been largely on buildings over the past decade, community sustainability is where significant gains in reducing GHG. This presentation summarizes some key principles for approaching more sustainable infrastructure design and then uses UrbanGreen’s recent work in the middle east to illustrate each principle. |
| Jim Heid — Presenter |
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Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities,
NC State University College of Design, Raleigh NC |
Saturday, March 6, 2010 |
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The 7th Annual Urban Design Conference, Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities, will explore the design strategies that cities imagine, develop, and implement as they grow stronger and more vibrant while facing economic, environmental, and social challenges. Presenters and conference attendees will delve into the elements of resiliency that designers, planners, developers and policy-makers use to enhance the value of the cities facing these challenges. |
| Jim Heid — Presenter |
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Recovering Green – a joint think tank sponsored by ULI and AIA,
Washington DC |
January 25th, 2010 |
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| Jointly hosted by the AIA and ULI, this invitation only forum will look at how communities across America are staying focused on green building, green jobs, and wider green economic development efforts, despite having been dealt a heavy blow by the economic downturn. The forum’s intent is to create a roadmap for successful sustainable development as the economic recovery picks up steam. A collaboration of architects, developers, mayors, and others will focus their collective energies toward the creation of a plan for the increased development of sustainable, livable communities. |
| Jim Heid —Select Invitee |
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2009 PRESENTATIONS |
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Adapting to A Drier West,
ULI Center for the West Symposium, Las Vegas NV |
December 8, 2009 |
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Leading experts on water and development took part in a variety of panel discussions at the symposium. These panels focused on the most pressing issues connected to water scarcity and land use, and were an opportunity for panelists to share business, policy, and design perspectives on the most viable solutions. All of the audio and slides from the panel discussions can be found on this page, as available. |
| Jim Heid — Moderator |
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| Greenbuild 2009, Phoenix AZ |
December 9, 2009 |
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This presentation is an UrbanGreen’s excerpt from the larger panel discussion about lessons can from LEED-ND that might be applied to planned communities that exist on the urban edge. |
| Jim Heid — Panelist |
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| ULI Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA |
November 2009 |
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This presentation summarizes what was learned in a 2008 ULI Innovations Forum on sustainable communities on the edge, and what a difference 12 months of economic downturn have made on how we think about community development. |
| Jim Heid — Panelist |
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| PCBC Hybrid Communities, San Francisco CA |
June 27, 2009 |
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This presentation from the 2009 PCBC, developed in conjunction with Chris Moore, Principal with DTJ Design, demonstrates how we are moving into an era of converging planning and design ideas, resulting in ‘hybrid communities’. |
| Jim Heid — Co-Presenter |
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| ASU WP Carey School of Business, Temple AZ |
May 2009 |
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As part of ASU’s Business School program in Sustainable Development, Jim Heid shared his reflections and lessons learned for aspiring student seeking to create more a more sustainable world. |
| Jim Heid — Guest Lecturer |
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2008-2005 SELECT PRESENTATIONS
Please register to download a copy of the following presentations:
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ULI Hawaii District Council, Honolulu HI
Jim Heid - Keynote
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Sustainable Communities on the Edge, Phoenix AZ
Jim Heid - Presenter
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Open Space and Urban Nodes CNU XIII, Austin TX
Jim Heid - Panelist
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Presidio School of Management Green Developer Series, San Francisco CA
Jim Heid - Guest Lecturer
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University of Colorado 2008 Real Estate Forum, Denver CO
Jim Heid - Keynote
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2008 PCBC Green Trends, San Francisco CA
Jim Heid - Moderator and Panelist
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ULI Sacramento District Council, Sacrament CO
Jim Heid - Keynote
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Global Sustainable Development, Urban Land Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Jim Heid - Moderator |
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ARCS 2007 Customer Summit, Half Moon Bay CA
Jim Heid - Presenter
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2007 Texas State Land Trust Conference, Texas Land Trust Council, Austin TX
Jim Heid - Keynote
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2006 CCAPA Annual Conference, American Planning Association, San Diego, CA
Jim Heid - Presenter |
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Conservation Development Symposium, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center,
Austin TX
Jim Heid - Keynote
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2006 PCBC, California Building Association,
San Francisco, CA
Jim Heid - Panelist
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2006 Boise Metro Leadership Conference, Boise Chamber of Commerce, Sun Valley ID
Jim Heid - Presenter
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2006 National Green Building Conference, National Association of Home Builders, Albuquerque NM
Jim Heid - Panelist |
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American Society of Landscape Architects 2005 Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale FL
Jim Heid - Presenter
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Smart Growth That Pays, The Conservation Fund/Urban Land Institute, Miami FL
Jim Heid - Presenter
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2005 Green Communities Forum, Washington DC
Jim Heid - Presenter
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4th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth, Portland OR
Jim Heid - Presenter
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