EVENTS

How urban research could build better cities

What do we need to know about the success, failure, and future prospects of creating walkable, diverse urbanism? A discussion piece for...

Final speaker lineup set, as one week remains to the 60th International Making Cities Livable conference!

Participants for the intensive weekend symposium on front-line urban challenges include eminent researchers, government officials,...

TWO WEEKS until the 60th International Making Cities Livable conference! Driving change, celebrating success - and sharing important new tools and strategies

National and international city leaders will soon gather for the next conference of the premier urban livability series begun in 1985...

How can we change the "operating system for growth" to create more livable cities and towns for all?

The answer is an evolving set of tools and strategies employed by municipal governments, non-profits, practitioners and citizens - ones...

60th IMCL in Newport RI taking final shape with a rich two-day program and tours, as discount registration ends soon

The last day of the discount rate is Sunday, March 31; new one-day registration options are also opened NEWPORT, RI (March 29th) - The...

60th IMCL conference in Newport, RI announces rich program and tour options, as deadline approaches for discount registration

Tours include a bike trip through Newport to see its street improvements, and a walking tour of downtown Providence and its many...

How can we apply the latest research findings to drive crucial urban reforms?

Research has clearly demonstrated the critical impact of urban structure on our present and future well-being -- but there is also a...

Final speaker roster almost set for 60th International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) conference in April

The rich lineup of frontier urban topics will include new research and case studies, and new tools and strategies for public space,...

How livable cities (and towns, and suburbs) are key to the human future

The sciences are revealing to us the power of networks - notably including urban networks. As Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander and...

The International Making Cities Livable conference series was begun in 1985 by Dr. Henry L. Lennard, a Viennese medical sociologist, and Dr. Suzanne C. Lennard, an architectural researcher. Both were committed to sharing knowledge to make healthier, more ecological, more equitable, more beautiful -- more livable -- cities, towns and suburbs. The conference series, study tours, and other events, bring together leaders from policy, practice and academia, to share effective tools and strategies, and to examine instructive case studies.