On Friday, March 6th, the 2009 Lyceum Forum Series continued with "Housing to Solve Transportation and Environmental Problems."  This forum focused on the connections between housing, transportation and environmental policy, and looked at how housing developed in the right locations and at higher densities can help the state achieve multiple policy goals. 

Visit our event blog to continue the conversation!

Click here to view a photo gallery of speakers at the event. 

Speaker Presentations:

• Growing Smart (pdf, 2.3 MB)
  Curt Johnson, Connecticut Fund for the Environment
• Re-Urbanism in America (pdf, 12.01 MB)
  Norman Garrick, UConn Center for Transportation and Urban Planning
• Housing, Transportation & the Environment (pdf, 7.92 MB)
  Dara Kovel, Jonathan Rose Companies

Event Materials and Handouts:

• Event Agenda 
• Housing in Connecticut: Facts and Figures 
• Partnership for Strong Communities 2009 Policy Agenda 
• Smart Housing Development Can Help The Environment 
• Housing Key To Transit
  Hartford Courant op-ed by Shelby Mertes Mertes of the Partnership for Strong Communities and Oz Griebel of the MetroHartford Alliance, Sunday, March 1, 2009
• How The Crash Will Reshape America
  by Richard Florida, The Atlantic Monthly, March 2009
• Workforce Housing and Climate Change
  by John McIlwain, Urban Land Institute
• The Upside of 'Density Packing'
  by Patrick Chisholm, Christian Science Monitor, April 25, 2006
• Protecting Water Resources With Higher-Density Development
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, January 2006
• Realizing the Potential: Expanding Housing Opportunities Near Transit
  Reconnecting America's Center for Transit-Oriented Development, April 2007
• Capturing the Value of Transit
  Reconnecting America's Center for Transit-Oriented Development, November 2008
  Prepared for the US Dept. of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration