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.<br>this should be great- <br><span class="q" id="q_11884ea849a38b35_3"><p><span></span></p>
<p><span><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">TONIGHT!
</font></span><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><strong>WalkBoston Celebration, JON
ORCUTT,<br>
New York City DOT Senior Policy Advisor <br>
Thu. Mar. 6, 7:00 pm </strong>, come at 5:30 for eating,
drinking, and shmoozing! [ @ <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eMRAaa8GRn-AZai0WQ_8C05tt_Sy1MvTo6B2Yo7vUOa_q6hlmAU7AftKRsGt14nJiz3zbn8-V-nqzKfZqDd5tUKCfA512HDDVjHU33qKA4TVrEOKUminctQBSwOg29eHnRFaX51sBbo3w-qzl4SvaCyo-JNUEb5rT8TQ0pcFy6i2T21WMdZEbyu0jtIGbHnYalXchsOCpPH-J90qb4GYL5_qajLkL1FEsnq2s5O_18R6Jq5lIFjiscRid03uQQEd" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">60 State Street,
Boston</a> ] <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eMRAaa8GRn-tckkPiTBcYqiZvkzcBB5M5ftV4ZvlelEanjXilSPkYJ3WZcHuHFBXLsTMBi7IKOM2bBNokVCbbiUSGArXDG8dvuBw2XXnKlEVMufbUuqckeTmOiaFTouOWt5FE6y7Nys=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">more...</a></font></p>
<p><span><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">MONDAY StreetTalk!
</font></span><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><strong>LivableStreets hosts special guest
</strong><strong>DAN BURDEN, champion of
walkability! <br>
Mon. Mar. 10, 6:30 - 8:30 pm </strong>founder of <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eMRAaa8GRn8IapwsIeNTnDUPI0G6qaW9eLVl2yKto-CEc6qYsKjycLrDAyCCI9qyYJjY9Oj4BAu03Bxp1MiJ8XmOv_0c4GaJDwqa4c9nyp4QMQR2bHZWsQ==" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Walkable Communities</a>,
consultant for <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eMRAaa8GRn-Qf9HUmeXRK4sLQinkOSNgJ116Hb5uOncPYSppnngyz0fuYjIISTU0VpaMN1bMCPy8SPzUDknbD91T5QgX1NK7jONvqJ5FOD8=" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Glatting Jackson</a> [ @ <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eMRAaa8GRn9oc_5ik9wq_RxYWUrQPwvCbKix-HKPcY-0SKPMqofvp45W5Krj0cNL5lFFjnYDwrk7ub1-Q_uSThYqKQCl14f6wjb-ljbgg40vjAeqpi6JLiGGgy-Hs_1y7DDT3JXtwh3uTAj2fMm4MNufWHE0V0GeQ9F8i_xXVPmDFyj2fSXw9HScdUD1HBca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">IHCD
showroom, North Station</a> ] </font></p>
<p><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">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. </font></p>
<p><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">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."</font></p>
<p><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">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?</font></p>
<p><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eMRAaa8GRn8z_xQcncLhmI9mVwPjC5Fb4O4kPKpVYZVdQ1VWVkMuiURQacC2RlYaxnuv5UXLj2fItoWieyuTd-xLdkCBNgHx5VuHcvI85mwgIY1DdYoxGA==" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Click here for more information
</a></font></p>
<p><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><em>free and
open to the public, donation suggested, beer/sodas
provided compliments of Harpoon Brewery!</em></font></p>
<p><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><em>Come by early and browse the new <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eMRAaa8GRn9oirgkx0LoZPW78cG1hMAoEvaEDtDlOHsnhaWMKjYqxW0sy0TVvg515I8bYOCl2bXTF2HQKlJcbs2bEh0LMO73HtZEVnPn69BHwbE7fCRgjVIS943oj7dpMcR6KE650riHXESBbPEj2bR8XjwY7DTtUoSgH-ZxStSu_IA_zfD2tOdlb85VRxG5" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Institute
for Human Centered Design showroom</a>!
</em></font></p>
<p><font style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#000000" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">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. </font></p></span>