Separation of land uses creates increased commuting distances and time.

• August 21-25 - Anaheim, California: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, will present at StormCon 2011.

• June 1-4- Madison, Wisconson: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, will present at CNU 19.

• May 17 - Raleigh, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, will present at North Carolina State University.

• May 11-12 - Greer, South Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, will present at the Upstate Forever Workshop.

• April 17 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Josye Utick, DPZ Charlotte, present at Charlotte Clean and Green on Srawl Repair.

• April 14-16 - Montgomery County, Maryland: Guy Pearlman, Project Manager, DPZ Charlotte, and Larry Coffman, Director of the Low Impact Development Center, debated at Makeover Montgomery: Innovative Strategies for Rethinking America's Suburbs on "LID vs. Light Imprint?"

• March 28-29 - Minneapolis, Minnesota: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning and Guy Pearlman, Project Manager, DPZ Charlotte, presented at CNU Minnesota on "On the Ground: Light Imprint vs. Low Impact."

• March 18 - New Haven, Connecticut: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, presented at CNU New England Sustainable Urbanism Summit on "Light Imprint: A New Methodology for Placemaking."

• March 16 - Houston, Texas: Tom Low,DPZ Charlotte, and Galina Tachieva, DPZ Miami, presented at CNU Houston 2011 on "Repair, Retrofit & Light Imprint: Sustainable Development Tools for Houston."

• March 4 - Denver, Colorado: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, presened at the Rocky Mountain Institute with Dan Slone and Paul Crabtree on "Sustainability and Form-Based Codes."

• February 24-25 - Louisville, Kentucky: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning and Guy Pearlman, Project Manager, DPZ Charlotte, will present a full day workshop titled, "Health and the Built Environment: Creating Healthy, Sustainble Communities through Placemaking." .

• February 3-5 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, will present "Integrating More Sustainable Design into Form-Based Codes." This half-day workshop will include presentations by Carol Wyant, Dan Parolek, Bill Lennertz, Dan Slone, and Victor Dover.

• October 18-21 - Portland, Oregon: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, will present at the 16th Annual Rail-Volution Conference, "Building Livable Communities with Transit." He will be joined by Luke Olson and Paul Pattison of URS in a session called, "Intro to Building Livable Cities and Communities."

• October 6-7 - Savannah, Georgia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, presented as part of the 2010 Lecture Series. He also toured studios are reviewed student work as part of the visit.

• September 29-October 1 - New Bern, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, presented at the 2010 North Carolina American Planning Association Conference. Low presented with Danny Pleasant, Director of Charlotte Department of Transportation, Sprawl Repair: Retrofitting Suburbia through Planning.

• September 24 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, presented at TEDx Charlotte (Technology, Entertainment, and Design to support Ideas Worth Spreading). At this presentation Low launched the video "Civilizing Spaces." More information about this event can be found at http://www.tedxcharlotte.com.

• August 17 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, presented "Green Infrastructure and the Streetcar" to the Eastland Area Strategies Team.

• August 4: DPZ Charlotte submitted an article for the Journal of Urbanism.

• August 1-5 - San Antonio, Texas: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, presented a session with John Jacob and Paul Crabtree titled, "Low Impact Development vs. Light Imprint: What's the Difference?" at StormCon 2010. This conference features leaders in the stormwater management industry from around the world.

• July 16 - Camden, South Carolina: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, and Monica Carney, DPZ Charlotte presented at the 2010 South Carolina American Planning Association Summer Conference. The team presented three sessions: Light Imprint: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design, A Streetcar Case Study: Stop Location and Sprawl Repair, and the Camden Vision Plan and Form-Based Code.

• July 4-July 14 - Norwich, England, United Kingdom: The Belmore Park charrette is a project approximately 3 miles east of the city center of Norwich. The 200 acre infill project charrette is a collaboration with Turnberry Consulting, DPZ Charlotte, and DPZ Miami.

• June 11-12 - Miami, Florida: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, and Monica Carney, DPZ Charlotte presented at the 2010 American Institute of Architects Conference where they presented two sessions: The Learning Cottage: A Habitat for Community Model and Transit Oriented Development and Light Imprint Infrastructure.

• June 10 - Miami, Florida: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, joined the other partners at DPZ to present "Settlements for the Twenty First Century." This day long workshop was well attended and provided at glimpse at cutting edge research and projects underway at DPZ.

• May 30-June 8 - Richmond, Virginia: The East End charrette, done in collaboration with DPZ Miami, is a neighborhood transformation plan and a retrofit of a transportation corridor. The charrette was sponsored by the City of Richmond, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, and Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital.

• May 19-23 - Atlanta, Georgia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, participated in two session at the Congress for New Urbanism: Rx For Healthy Places. The two sessions were: Clean Water Corridors, Greened Acres, and Eco-districts: Community Scale Urban Retrofit Strategies and the Sprawl Retrofit Initiative Meeting, for more information please visit http://www.cnu.org/cnu18archive

• April 17 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, instructed two courses at the Charlotte Clean and Green Event. The courses focused on Sprawl Repair and Urbanism, Growers, and Food Enthusiasts. For more information on the event please visit, http://www.charlottecleanandgreen.com/classes.php

• February 27-March 9 - Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom: The DPZ Charlotte Team in conjunction with a team from DPZ Miami, worked on the Scotish Sustainable Communities Initiative in Dumfries, Scotland. This charrette completed with Turnberry Consulting is a model of sustainable development for Scotland.

• January 13-20 - Charlotte, North Carolina: The DPZ Charlotte Team, as part of a larger consultant team, completed an independent Streetcar Stop Location Assessment Study for the future 10 mile streetcar line through central city Charlotte. The team also studied several special project areas that will facilitate future sustainable growth. For a video on the project please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lUh5_fhOw

• December - Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, Monica Carney, and Nora Black passed the Congress for the New Urbanism Accreditation Exam and are now CNU-A.

• November - The Light Imprint Team wrote a chapter to be included in a new book by Steve Coyle, published by Wiley Press, "The Sustainable Community Guidebook."

• November - Tom Low and Monica Carney both passed the American Institute of Certified Planners Exam to become certified planners.

• November 13-15 - North Augusta, South Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning, DPZ Charlotte, conducted a Light Imprinter's Almanac presentation at the NTBA, National Town Builders Association, bi-annual meeting that focused on "Slow Motion is the New Sustainability - Slow Food, Slow Cars, Slow Bicycles & Slow Pedestrians Define the New Economy". For more information about the National Town Builders Association please visit, http://www.ntba.net/.

• November 11-13 - Phoenix, Arizona: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, and Monica Carney, DPZ Charlotte, and Senen Antonio of DPZ Miami attend the 2009 National Greenbuild Conference and Expo where they showcased several DPZ initiatives including: Light Imprint, Agricultural Urbanism, and Sprawl Repair. There were over 27,000 attendees at Greenbuild and DPZ was among the most visited. For more information please visit http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/Home.aspx.

• November 1-2 - Blacksburg, Virginia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning at DPZ Charlotte, participated as a guest lecturer and studio advisor to Virginia Tech's Graduate Planning Studio in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies. As part of the study Tom toured with the students Fincastle, a preserved Virginia hamlet.

• October 20-28 - Camden, South Carolina: The DPZ Charlotte Team returned to Camden, South Carolina to design a Festival Venue site and write a SmartCode for Downtown Camden.

• September 17- Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint presentation at the Charlotte Volume 4 Pecha Kucha. For more information about Pecha Kucha please visit http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/charlotte/l.

• September 1 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, participates as a panelist examining Charlotte's growth and "growing pains" on WFAE's Public Conversations Series "Charlotte: On the Way to Becoming....? register please visit, http://wfae.org/wfae/19_100_0.cfm?id=5395&action=display.

• June 10-12 - Denver, Colorado: The leaders of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company will conduct a workshop titled, "Settlements for the 21st Century" on June 10th at the annual conference for the Congress of the New Urbanism. This free workshop will discuss the "New" New Urbanism in response to the current economic, environmental, and social conditions. For more information or to register please visit, http://www.dpzcharlotte.com/prepare21.html.

• May 14 - Portland, Oregon: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint presentation at the National Conference for Nonpoint Source and Stormwater Outreach: Achieving Results with Tight Budgets. If you would like more information about the conference please visit http://www.epa.gov/nps/outreach2009/.

• May 7 - Roanoke, Virginia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint presentation at the Roanoke Valley Housing Coalition.

• May 6 - Blacksburg, Virginia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint presentation for the Urban Affairs and Planning Graduate Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

• April 28-29 - Minneapolis, Minnesota: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint presentation titled, "Light Imprint, Sustainability, and Urbanism" for the American Planning Association annual national convention, "Headwaters to the Delta." The session is Wednesday, April 29, 8:00AM-9:15AM. To register visit, http://planning.org/nationalconference/index.htm.

• April 23-24 - Storrs, Connecticut: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint workshop at the University of Connecticut.

• April 20-22 - Los Angeles, California: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint presentation for the Joint Light Rail Conference. The conference is hosted by the American Public Transportation Association. To register for the conference please visit: http://www.apta.com/conferences_calendar/lrail/.

• April 17-18 - Asheville, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint workshop for the North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects during the 2009 Spring Conference titled, "Strategies in Sustainability: Providing the Tools to Go Green." To register for the conference please visit, http://www.ncasla.org.

• April 6-7 - Miami, Florida: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint workshop for the University of Miami. To register for the conference please visit, http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=c658a83d-8e2c-4c90-bfb0-90746f24f169. The Sustainable Urban Summit will connect professionals, public servants, academics and citizens to exchange ideas about climate change and building sustainable neighborhoods.

• April 2-3 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint workshop for the Congress for New Urbanism New England Sustainable Summit. To register for the conference please visit, http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=c658a83d-8e2c-4c90-bfb0-90746f24f169. The Sustainable Urban Summit will connect professionals, public servants, academics and citizens to exchange ideas about climate change and building sustainable neighborhoods.

• March 19 - Greensboro, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint lecture for the Center for Energy Research and Technology. The summit is titled "Sustainable Energy Alternatives and Low Income Communities." For registration information please visit, http://cert.ncat.edu/cert.asp?id=25.

• March 10-11 - Beaufort, South Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint workshop for the Sustainable Development Summit hosted by the Beaufort County Planning Department. For registration information visit, http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/NERR/ctp.html.

• March 3 - Chesterfield County, Virginia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint workshop for the AIA and County officials at their quarterly development meeting.

• February 26 - Greensboro, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint lecture for the Greensboro Housing Coalition.

•February 5 - South Bend, Indiana: Tom Low, Architect, Town Planner, DPZ Partner, gives the keynote lecture The City Beautiful, The City Practical, and The City Sustainable for the School of Architecture's first annual conference on Sustainability and the Environment. The Original Green, will address this broad spectrum with speakers from Europe and the United States who will share their insights into building a sustainable world for the future while drawing on the wisdom of the past. Traditional urbanism and architecture provide the only comprehensive approach to the challenges of sustainability. Only those enduring principles address the full spectrum of issues involved: from regional land use and resource management, to the development of healthy communities and lifestyles, to durable, energy-efficient, non-toxic built environments. In addition, human culture must be understood as an integral component of a sustainable world. Building upon tradition and adapting those timeless ideals to the challenges of modern life both preserves and extends cultural continuity. Please visit http://architecture.nd.edu/news_and_events/conference_original_green.shtml

• January 23 - Albuquerque, New Mexico: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts a Light Imprint workshop at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, http://www.newpartners.org/about.html.

Integrating Land Uses creates walkable communities.

• December 9 - Washington, DC: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, and Monica Carney of DPZ Charlotte conduct a 3 hour Light Imprint workshop, "Light Imprint: Integrating Sustainability and Urbanism" as part of the Ecobuild AEC 2008 conference.

• November 5 - Charlotte, North Carolina: DPZ Principal Andres Duany is the featured speaker for Charlotte's Civic By Design Forum. Andres discusses Agricultural Urbanism, transportation, and the livable city. Introducing him is John Norquist, President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). The event is at the Levine Museum of the New South, 200 E 7th St., Charlotte.

• October 24 - Asheville, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducts an AIA Continuing Education Workshop, "Masters' Class: Twentieth Century Urban Planner John Nolen, his Asheville plan and today's urbanism." The half-day workshop is at the Grove Arcade Conference Room.

• October 23 - Asheville, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presents a lecture, "Lean, Green, Quality of Life Machine: Twentieth Century Urban Planner John Nolen, his Asheville plan and today's urbanism" at a public event hosted by AIA Asheville at the Pack Memorial Library.

• October 9 - Chicago, Illinois: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presents "The Light Imprint Initiative" to the CNU-Illinois Chapter's state conference.

• September 20 - Chicago, Illinois: Tom Low conducts a Continuing Education Workshop, "Masters' Class: Twentieth Century Urban Planner John Nolen and today's urbanism." The half-day workshop is at the Traditional Builders Conference.

• September 19 - Elon, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte presents "Planning and Developing for Tomorrow: Light Imprint - facilitating innovative development," at the Seventh Annual Fall Environmental Forum on Sustainable Communities at Elon University, Center for Environmental Studies.

• August 28-29 - Nashville, Tennessee : Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, Nora Black, and Monica Carney of DPZ Charlotte, along with Lauren Kelly of Brown Design Studio and Patrick Kelly of the new town of Habersham, South Carolina, conducted a workshop, "Planning and Designing for the Natural Infrastructure: The Neighborhood and Community Scale - Light Imprint Integration of Sustainability and Urbanism" for more than 30 design professionals, planners, and developers. There is an in-depth presentation of the Light Imprint planning and development strategy. Part of the workshop includes a trip to the Assembly at Monteagle, Tennessee, for a hands-on look at this sustainable community, which is featured in the Light Imprint Handbook and the interactive website. Participants also learn about LI strategies used in the DPZ-designed Lockett development, just approved for Sumner County, Tennessee. Cumberland Region Tomorrow, a private sector organization working with the public planning sector, and AIA Tennessee are sponsoring the workshop.

• August 20 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, Nora Black, and Monica Carney of DPZ Charlotte, along with Patrick Kelly of the new town of Habersham, South Carolina, conduct a workshop, "Light Imprint: The Integration of Sustainability and Urbanism" for design professionals, planners, and developers, as a Preconference Event of the AIA North Carolina 2008 Design Conference. The group received an in-depth presentation of the Light Imprint planning and development strategy and participated in hands-on case studies.

• June 2 - Rome, Italy: Tom Low, Principal of DPZ Charlotte, is teaching the Summer Semester in Rome, Italy for the Graduate Program of the University of Miami for two weeks in June. This Summer Session is the Retrofit Studio of the New Urbanism Graduate Program. This Program semester in Rome is used to introduce students to the city, to document public spaces, to study urban details, to visit places offering retrofit lessons, to understand the value of 20th century interventions in the historic city and its surrounding territories, and to evaluate the performance of difficult metropolitan conditions. In addition, Low is to assist students with project assignments and will introduce students to DPZ Charlotte's Light Imprint Initiative, the Learning Cottage Initiative, and technique lessons on early-twentieth century town planners including John Nolen. Students will conduct general research, walking fieldtrips and design documentation particular to Rome and the region using the rural to urban transect. The studio is located in a fabulous Palazzo at Via della Gatta in the historic center of Rome. In addition to teaching duties, Low will tour Rome and the vicinity with family and friends for an additional week.

• May 29 - Atlanta, Georgia: Guy Pearlman, Project Manager of DPZ Charlotte, presented "Going Green: Public Transit Sustainability and Integrating Sustainability with Urban Design: The Light imprint Initiative" along with Alan Powell of the US Environmental and Protection Agency and Elizabeth Martin of the FTA. The presentation was part of the Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) Region IV Conference - The Routes to Success...Today and Beyond, in Atlanta, Georgia.

• May 16 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, spoke to the Congress of Residential Architecture's(CORA) Charlotte Chapter about green community planning.

• May 14 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman, and Monica Carney of DPZ Charlotte presented The Light Imprint Initiative: Integrating Sustainability with Urban Development. The event was sponsored by the USGBC Charlotte Chapter.

• April 18 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Civic By Design partnered with the Charlotte Chapter of the US Green Building Council and the Sierra Club for Charlotte Clean and Green. This was a full weekend of exciting events scheduled for Friday through Monday April 18 - 21 on the Central Campus of CPCC. More than a dozen organizations across the city and county collaborated to launch the first annual Charlotte Clean and Green (CC&G), an annual community-wide event designed to inspire, educate, and help you practice living more Green in your everyday life. This unprecedented event was more than passive education; it provided an entertaining and attractive setting for families to gain specific knowledge on making life changes to help the environment that were easy and economically smart. Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, will be leading two sessions: Integrating Sustainability with Urban Design: The Light Imprint Initiative happening Friday, April 18, 3:30pm. The other session, entitled How Green Is Your Neighborhood, will take place Saturday, April 19 10:00am.

• March 11 - Charlotte, North Carolina: The Charlotte US Green Building Council and Charlotte Business Journal awarded DPZ Charlotte with a Green Innovation Award for their Light Imprint Initiative. The 2008 Green Awards event was held on April 16 to honor those in the Charlotte area who make an effort to incorporate environmentally sustainable practices into their businesses and community work.

• March 8 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Guy Pearlman, Project Manager of DPZ Charlotte, presented a poster titled "Light Imprint: Biomimicry & The Urban Form" in Chapel Hill on March 8, 2008. The presentation was part of the Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) 2008 Annual Conference - A Platform for Partnership and Progress. The presentation was among numerous presentations on new alternatives for bio-fuel and energy sources in addition to break-thorough pharmaceutical and medicinal solutions in the cell and cancer field.

• February 7 - Washington, DC: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman and Patrick Kelly of DPZ Charlotte, presented a seminar, "Integrating Sustainability and New Urbanism: The Light Imprint Initiative." The seminar is part of the 7th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference called "Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities."

• January 23 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presented "New Urbanism and Sustainable Projects by DPZ," at the Central Piedmont meeting of the Sierra Club.

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• November 11 - Charlotte, North Carolina: On November 13th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm, Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, led a Civic By Design forum called "Overcoming Classroom Trailers and Factory Schools."

• Post Hurricane Katrina design efforts created the widely popular and successful Katrina Cottage in order to overcome FEMA trailer blight. Now the Katrina-inspired Learning Cottage Initiative has been created to overcome classroom trailer blight and oversize factory-style schools. Learning Cottages are flexible, green, aesthetically pleasing, and cost-effective buildings that meet schools' demand for additional classrooms. If built with panelized construction techniques, these attractive, permanent structures can be built for approximately half the per-square-foot cost of typical school buildings. Several Learning Cottages can form the nucleus of a school campus. The civic by design of the school campus, enable Learning Cottages to be embedded in neighborhoods on compact sites in walking distance for attending children.

The initial concept was first publicly discussed at the Charlotte's Civic by Design Forum School Design Workshop in September 2006. A team of volunteers supported by DPZ spearheaded developing the concept. The first Learning Cottage prototypes range from coastal to traditional to modern. The concept includes floor plans and elevations for the three different Learning Cottage prototypes.

This Forum will update participants of progress. Architecture, landscape, and planning designers will present master plans for projects nationally and locally currently underway applying the Learning Cottage model. In addition, designers will present an expanded variety of Learning Cottage designs including traditional to contemporary, multistory classroms, gymnasiums, cafeterias, media centers, and auditoriums.

• October 24 - Charleston, South Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, conducted a half-day workshop on Light Imprint New Urbanism. The three-dozen attendees included all City department heads and select staff. The workshop also included presentations from Habersham Town Founders Bob Turner and Stephen Davis, along with Rick Hall of Hall Transportation Consultants.

• October 19 - Roanoke, Virginia: The Virginia Downtown Development Association awarded Roanoke City Market District Plan with the Annual Award of Excellence for cities over 50,000.

• October 18 - Atlanta, Georgia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, and Nancy Borum presented a workshop entitled "Building Trends Workshop: Designing for a 50+ Clientele." The presentation was part of the three-day 8th Annual Conference of the National Active Retirement Association (NARA).

• October 4 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presented a lecture entitled "City Planning for Green." The presentation was part of the Fall Adventures in Learning series conducted by the Shepherd's Center East.

• September 28 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presented a lecture entitled "Jumpstarting the School of the Future." His presentation was part of the 2007 CSI Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Bi-Region conference.

• September 20 - Savannah, Georgia: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presented "Civic By Design: Learning Lessons from Pioneer Planner John Nolen," for Daffin Park Centennial Celebration, in conjunction with Historic Savannah Foundation and Live Oak Public Libraries.

• September 17 - Clemson, South Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presented "Light Imprint New Urbanism: Designing Sustainable Communities," for Clemson University, School of Architecture Lecture Series.

• September 13 - New Bern, North Carolina: Tom Low, Guy Pearlman Patrick Kelly, and Lauren Koutrelakos presented a seminar, "Light Imprint Urbanism: Coordinating Sustainability and Community." The seminar was part of the AIA North Carolina Three-Day Design Conference called "Original Inspirations: Preservation, Innovation, Transformation."

• August 21 - Mount Holly, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, presented a seminar, "Form-Based Code Basics" and served on a Question and Answer Panel. His presentation was part of the Centralina Council of Governments Conference half-day "Form-Based Codes Seminar."

• August 7 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, moderated a panel discussion, "Light Rail: One of Charlotte's Transportation Solutions," for the Civic By Design. The Charlotte Chapter of the Sierra Club hosted the reception following the forum.

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• October 12 - Greensboro, North Carolina: Willow Oaks, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, received the Martin Collins Award for Implementation from the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association. The 250-acre Hope VI revitalization project includes mixed-use commercial and civic space, as well as approximately 600 housing units, half of which are subsidized by the Greensboro housing authority. Willow Oaks was master-planned by DPZ in 1997, with the plans modified in 2000 and with construction completed in 2006.

• August 9 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, led an AIA Civic by Design Forum entitled "What Makes Great Neighborhood Shopping Streets?" at Charlotte's Levine Museum of the New South. Tom has chaired the AIA Charlotte chapter's Civic by Design Forum for two years. The Forum aims to elevate the quality of the Charlotte region's built environment, promote public participation in the creation of more beautiful public spaces, and engage members of the public in design-related discussions.

• May 31 - Providence, Rhode Island: Traveling north from Miami, Charlotte and Washington, twenty-eight DPZ staffers attended the fourteenth annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) in Providence, Rhode Island. The Congress, which was the largest CNU gathering to date, hosted more than 1,300 designers, architects and developers.

• DPZ principals Andres Duany and Lizz Plater-Zyberk were both featured speakers, lecturing on topics including "New Urbanism 101," form-based codes, the New Urbanist rebuilding process in Louisiana and Mississippi, and "the tipping point" of New Urbanism. Other DPZ designers and project managers also participated in panels and roundtables, discussing topics such as affordable housing, the SmartCode and the role of the town architect in Traditional Neighborhood Developments.

• March 29 - Columbia, South Carolina: Lake Carolina, a DPZ master-planned community in South Carolina, was named Columbia's "Community of the Year" for the sixth year in a row. The 600-acre community, which was project-managed by DPZ Charlotte director Tom Low, includes several residential neighborhoods lining a town center and the lake.

• March 16 - St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana: After nine days of public meetings and design sessions, more than 1,000 local residents attended the final presentation for DPZ's third Louisiana Recovery Authority charrette in Chalmette. The presentation focused on rebuilding schemes for St. Bernard Parish at large, and also offered recommendations for individual homeowners, and an implementation strategy for policy makers. Parish officials are now looking to enact the charrette recommendations as quickly as possible, in order to seek funding for the plans and formally begin reconstruction.

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• December 1 - Greensboro, North Carolina: The Sierra Club designated the Southside neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina as one of the twelve best new development projects in the nation. The project - designed by DPZ's Charlotte office - is a ten acre Brownfield redevelopment located a few minutes from the central business district of downtown Greensboro. Once a blighted and largely abandoned area, the neighborhood now consists of 30 single-family homes, 10 two-family homes, 50 townhomes, 20 shop-front live-work buildings, 10 restored historic homes, and a number of garage apartments. The project is the first mixed-use infill development in the state, and has greatly increased local tax revenues.

• The Southside project also received a Smart Growth award from the federal Environmental Protection Agency in 2004, as well as the American Planning Association Outstanding Planning Implementation Award for 2003.

• October 20 - South Mississippi Coast: From October 10th through 18th, DPZ staffers from the Miami, Charlotte and Washington offices joined more than 200 architects and planners at the Mississippi Renewal Forum. The week-long charrette - considered by some to be the largest architectural brainstorm in 100 years - was dedicated to the re-planning of eleven Gulf Coast cities devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Local and national architects worked together in teams to coordinate specific design plans for each municipality, as well as regional plans for transportation, coding and retail. DPZ and the Congress for the New Urbanism coordinated the event, working in conjunction with the Mississippi Governor's Commission for Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal. Principal Andres Duany was the chief organizer, while the DPZ directors served as liaisons between the planning teams.

• July 8 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Questions and Answers with Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, was featured in the July 2005 edition of the online magazine Charlotte Viewpoint on the topic of the Charlotte Civic by Design Forum and regional planning issues. To read this Q&A along with other pieces such as an article by Carroll Gray, president of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, go to www.charlotteviewpoint.org

• June 21 - Charlotte, North Carolina: Tom Low, Director of Town Planning for DPZ Charlotte, discusses the renowned town planner John Nolen on "Charlotte Talks," with host Mike Collins and historians Tom Hanchett and Mary Kratt. The panel explores Nolen's Myers Park development and the lessons it provides for today's developers.

• January 12 - Orlando, Florida: Best In America Living Award presented to Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company for Outstanding Community Design. In recognition of the nation's best new housing and community designs, the Best in American Living (BALA) awards were presented at an award ceremony in conjunction with the National Association of Home Builder's annual convention and exposition in Orlando. The highest Platinum Award in the BALA competition was presented to Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. for Habersham in Beaufort, SC. Sponsored by Professional Builder magazine and the National Association of Home Builders, the BALA program showcases homes and community design that illustrate design quality, succeed in the marketplace and exemplify the "Best in American Living". The 2004 BALA competition's panel of 12 judges was composed of builders, marketing experts, architects, land planners, developers, design professionals, interior designers, and Professional Building editor. Winners were featured in a Winner's Book published in the January issue of Professional Builder magazine.

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• November 17 - Greensboro, North Carolina: The EPA recognized the Southside Neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, as winner of the 2004 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement in the category of Built Projects. Tom Low of DPZ designed the master plan in 1999, and Nate Bowman of Bowman Development Group acted as lead developer. The project successfully revived an ailing neighborhood south of Greensboro's historic main street and contributed to an overall sense of rebirth in the downtown.

• November 10 - Richmond, Virginia: Tom Low conducts a seminar for the Virginia Society AIA Architecture Exchange East conference. The topic was "Towards a Region of Sustainable Growth: Charlotte Metro Region and the Application of New Urbanism."

• May 18-26: Locust charrette, North Carolina

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