[*BCM*] pedestrians, cyclists, city-livers! TONIGHT's event!

[jasmine laietmark]

whether or not you missed that great talk at livable streets last week- go,
go go to this and the one on monday! if you want/can, of course.
this should be great-

TONIGHT! *WalkBoston Celebration, JON ORCUTT,
New York City DOT Senior Policy Advisor
Thu. Mar. 6, 7:00 pm *, come at 5:30 for eating, drinking, and shmoozing! [
@ 60 State Street,
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MONDAY StreetTalk! *LivableStreets hosts special guest **DAN BURDEN,
champion of walkability!
Mon. Mar. 10, 6:30 - 8:30 pm *founder of Walkable
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consultant for Glatting
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@ IHCD
showroom, North
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As founder and executive director of Walkable Communities, Inc., Burden
spends his days walking the streets of America, advising politicians and
civic leaders on how to make their communities more pedestrian and cyclist
friendly. It's a challenging and daunting task to get everyone to slow down
in our motorist-dominated world, but the rewards are tangible and often
surprising. In the realm of "livable streets," Dan is a hero. His
photographs and stories from around the world will completely change how you
view walking.

Burden is part of the suddenly arrived profession that promotes new kinds of
communities. He is one of a (small but growing) group of itinerant designers
and facilitators are now crisscrossing the country conducting workshops with
local residents. They're exploring the possibilities of changing streets and
buildings in ways that would add pleasure and reassurance to cities and
towns. Does a city become more lovable as it becomes more livable? Can we
find a balance between cars and people? What about the even trickier balance
between land and cars and people? Can developers and local officials move
from blueprints to "greenprints," so that a town's growth plans add green
space to people's lives, instead of taking it away? These are a few of the
many questions that Dan tackles. But it's not easy. "I tell my audiences
that Schopenhauer long ago defined the three stages all new ideas go
through: ridicule, violent opposition, and acceptance," says Burden. "I've
never yet seen a single step skipped in any community."

Once called the "Johnny Appleseed" of livable communities, Dan drives
forward as confidently as if he were entering his own neighborhood, and
talks about his work and his vision of the slowly emerging, post-sprawl
America. People's optimism about improving their communities often wavers
when they talk about the clutter, confusion, and congestion they see through
their windshields. It falters again when they reach inside themselves to
describe the absences sprawl imposes on their lives: It steals time, choice,
and proximity to others--not just open space. We are not only farther away
from schools and shops, from friends and neighbors, from fields and woods;
more and more of each day is given over to a tense, effortful, unnourishing,
and for now unavoidable in- between-ness. This townless, countryless, road-
bound running around stretches us thin; our bodies are in motion-but what is
there around us to anchor our hearts and minds?

Click here for more information
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*free and open to the public, donation suggested, beer/sodas provided
compliments of Harpoon Brewery!*

*Come by early and browse the new Institute for Human Centered Design
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*

The showroom is a fantastic place to explore the field of Human Centered
Design. Manufacturers on the cutting edge of the field, some household names
and some unfamiliar to American audiences, exhibit their actual products as
well as demonstrating products via DVD.
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