Title:کنفرانس برنامه ریزی ملی ۲۰۱۳ شیکاگو – کورتنی کاشیما

مگان استرومبرگ از مجله برنامه ریزی و انجمن برنامه ریزی آمریکا با کورتنی کاشیما، رئیس مشترک میزبان محلی کنفرانس برنامه ریزی ملی در سال ۲۰۱۳، در مورد بازگشت مجدد کنفرانس به شیکاگو صحبت می کند.

قسمتي از متن فيلم: Hi I’m Megan Stromberg with planning magazine at the American Planning Association I’m here in Millennium Park with Courtney kashima she’s a senior associate at far associates here in Chicago thanks for joining me Thank You Megan Courtney’s also a co-chair of the 2013 national planning conference which will be in chicago in april the

Conference was last in Chicago about a decade ago what’s changed since then Wow a lot has actually changed since the last conference just off the top of my head millennium park is this amazing facility in downtown Chicago the CH A’s plan for transformation has had a tremendous impact on the city’s

Affordable housing transit improvements pedestrian and bike it’s really a new day in Chicago you you just mentioned pedestrian and bike planning what’s going on in that area well the city is about to issue its first pedestrian plan which is a really progressive way of saying it’s no longer in Auto dominated

City that we’re going to take pedestrian and bicycle improvements seriously and roll them out throughout the city so that you can walk and bike as part of your daily life the city has also introduced protected bike lanes that are completely separated from driving lanes which has tremendously increased the

Number of bikers and what’s going on with transit there’s new bus rapid transit the grammar is rapid transit or brt is one of the most exciting initiatives that’s happening right now and I think it’s something to watch as the city rolls it out because brt isn’t new

But I think in a city that’s been in existence for over a hundred years and just completely built out that’s a much bigger challenge than say some of the newer cities where brt has more quickly been implemented and that will run down existing existing major roadways right right for the time being they’re

Planning on one on actually on interstate 55 and then a Western Avenue I know is one of the ones that has been targeted but they’re looking at several ideas okay and your firm far associates is here in Chicago right in the loop in the old man on Mac building a famous old

Building what kind of projects are you working on closer to home right now I’m on part of a team that’s creating the city of Chicago’s first design guidelines for complete streets so I think people might be surprised to hear that a planning and architecture firm is

Helping but we want to make sure land use and context and sustainability are considered incomplete streets we’re also helping for suburban municipalities create update their zoning ordinances to make sure that transit oriented development is encouraged and if you know planners will be here for a couple of days for the conference

In April if they’ve got some extra time where would you send them what are the must see things well in my spare time I day dream of being a tourist guide so I love giving recommendations what I have to say is this is known as a city of

Neighborhoods get out and see them andersonville bucktown Pilsen and I’d say you could even mix business with pleasure because there’s great restaurants bars and live music venues but it’s from our planning point of view you get to see how these business districts anymore and you’re you’re working on the mobile workshops is that

Right well we will they go to any of those neighborhoods we want to get people out by every mode of transportation and out to every corner of the region we’re putting together a really fantastic program of global workshops and we’re not only going to show the glamorous we also want to

Demonstrate lessons learn because we think that’s important for people to take back to their own communities well thanks Courtney very much for making time to talk with us thank you again Courtney kashima is a senior associate at far associates in Chicago and she’s also a 2013 national planning

Conference co-chair as a reminder the conference runs from April 13 through 17 to find out more you can go to planning org backslash hot

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Date: 2012-08-20 22:37:00
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