Hi all,

An added note that in addition to her presentation at the U of M this evening (see below) Anne Moudon will also make a presentation about urban design and cycling at the CMU Gear Swap at 1:00 Friday:

The GO GREEN Workshop and Gearswap An Environmentally Friendly Transportation Event This Friday, March 14th, from 1230 to 330 pm in the chapel at Canadian Mennonite University (500 Shaftsbury) Bring your gear, trade your gear, sell your gear, buy your gear Featuring booths by: Resource Conservation Manitoba, Bike to the Future, Olympia Cycle and CMU's own Bike Co-op And guest speaker: Anne Vernez Moudon, a professor of urban design and planning There will be door prizes and free refreshments!

Richard

WALKING AND EATING BY DESIGN

Dr. Anne Vernez Moudon Professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington, Seattle Director, Urban Form Lab (UFL)

7pm, Thursday March 13, Centre Space, Russell Building

Walking is a popular form of physical activity and people are more active if they can integrate walking into their daily activities. Living near grocery stores, restaurants and retail stores increases the amount of walking people do. Dr. Moudon will talk about how to identify and create neighborhoods that are walkable, safe, and enjoyable.

Dr. Moudon¹s published works include Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco (MIT Press 1986), Public Streets for Public Use (Columbia University Press 1991), and Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems (with M. Hubner, John Wiley & Sons, 2000). She also published several monographs, such as Master-Planned Communities: Shaping Exurbs in the 1990 (with B. Wiseman and K.J. Kim, distributed by the APA Bookstore, 1992) and Urban Design: Reshaping Our Cities (with W. Attoe, University of Washington, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1995).

Click here for more information: http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=246&too=200&dat=3/13/2008... ee=3&eve=8&epa=29586