| We are pleased to announce the Fourth Ideal City Conference to take place in Louisville, Kentucky from July 22-25.
We look forward to having participants from the fields of:
and more! The conference is hoping to take the best papers and publish them in the academic journal "Sustain" as well as other outlets. We hope to celebrate the successes as well as learn from the failures of a range of cities from Socialist to Capitalism. Good city planning does not just come from New York, Paris, Tokyo or London. So far, we have presentations covering housing, foreclosures, bike planning, historic preservation, green building, sustainable neighborhoods, renewable energy, water conservation, community agriculture, community design, downtown development, new urbanism, homelessness, traffic calming, and the right to the city movement. For a mid size City, Louisville has won many awards and acclaim as a good place to live, work, and play. Music has also had a historic role in shaping the city from bluegrass, country and blues. The Ideal City Conference is located at the 200 year old University of Louisville campus within walking distance of the Hullabalou Music Festival site at the world famous Churchill Downs. ,. The music ranges from rock (Dave Matthews, Bon Jovi, Train, Steve Miller, Black Crowes, B-52's, Avett Brothers), blues (Al Green, Taj Mahal, Michael, McDonald, War), country (Kenny Chesney, Loretta Lynn, Zak Brown, Dwight Yokum, Sara Evans, Dierks Bentley, Dan Tyminski) and bluegrass (Ricky Skaggs, Travelin McCoury's, Sam Bush). The conference is built around the music festival so you can see every group. While the first day of proceedings are expected to last all day the proceedings will end at noon on the other days, before the festival starts. With early registration, the cost of this conference is a bargain that will save anywhere from $200 to $400. See our website: http://sun.louisville.edu/ for more information and go to the "Register Now" link at the top! |
