MM2 Keynote: Dunham-Jones Talks About Retrofitting Suburbia
On Thursday, May 8, Georgia Tech’s Ellen Dunham-Jones kicked-off Makeover Montgomery 2 with her keynote address entitled “Raising the Bar on Suburban Retrofits.” Watch the recording of the presentation today by clicking the link below.
Across the country, suburban planners and residents are grappling with how to adapt to demographic shifts, changing housing preferences, and growing infrastructure needs. You are invited to participate in a conference focused on real-world solutions to these current suburban challenges.
Makeover Montgomery 2 | Moving Forward Montgomery kicked-off on Thursday, May 8 at the University of Maryland, College Park with a keynote address delivered by Ellen Dunham-Jones, award-winning architect and professor at the Georgia Tech School of Architecture (link to recording above).
The conference continues on Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10 at the Silver Spring Civic Building located in downtown Silver Spring. Conference organizers are pleased to present an exciting lineup of regional and national experts who will lead discussions on a variety of topics in the following tracks:
• Transportation and TOD
• Creative Use of Public Assets/Public-Private Partnerships
• Current Planning Trends
• Creative Use of Public Assets/Public-Private Partnerships
• Current Planning Trends
Registration is now closed! Stay tuned to www.makeovermontgomery2.com after the conference to view and listen to the presentations.
The American mobilization for World War II is famed for its industrial production; less well known is that it was also one of the greatest urban planning challenges that the United States has ever faced. Although Americans tend to think of World War II as a time of national unity, mobilization had a fractious side. Interest groups competed for federal attention, frequent — sometimes violent — protests interrupted mobilization plans, and seemingly local urban planning controversies could blow up into investigations by the U.S. Senate.
built in a rural area 25 miles west of Detroit, bringing the plant to success required dealing with housing, transportation, and communities for its tens of thousands of workers. It involved Americans from all walks of life: federal officials, industrialists, labor leaders, social activists, small business owners, civic leaders, and—just as significantly—the industrial workers and their families.