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Dan Burden is an internationally recognized authority on walkability,
liveability, healthy streets, and Smart Growth.
Time Magazine recently listed Dan as “one of the six most important civic innovators in the world.”
Dan is a former National Geographic photographer who uses photography to illustrate design concepts to help communities realize how car-centric they have become, and to show them how to change their focus onto people, instead of cars.
Dan walks for a living. In 1996 Dan founded Walkable Communities, Inc. www.walkable.org a nonprofit group that has been assisting North American communities to become more walkable. He works in 200 neighbourhoods or cities each year, and to date has helped 2400 communities get back on their feet. Dan works as a Principal and Senior Urban Designer for Glatting Jackson, a firm recognized for its excellence in context sensitivity and liveable communities design. Its innovative urban transportation planning and design service centres attract the highest quality creative street makers.
Dan has written a number of books, all available through
www.lgc.org. These include:
“Streets and Sidewalks”, “People and Cars: The Citizens’ Guide to Traffic
Calming”, “Street Design Guidelines for Healthy Neighborhoods” and “Emergency
Response, Traffic Calming and Traditional Neighborhood Streets”. Dan is working
on a new book on Sustainable Transportation, which will be the topic of his
presentation keynote address. In this presentation Dan will feature ways to make
communities more walkable by combining land use with transportation.
We are excited to announce that Dr Louise Schofield will MC the conference.
Louise is the Managing Director of her own workplace health company and also the mother of two beautiful boys aged 5 and 7. Her background is in Education and
Public Health especially with regard to behaviour change. Louise is the author
of numerous research papers in the health area, and a regular speaker at
national and international conferences. She currently writes a wellness column
for the Sunday News and was also the presenter of TV 3's Honey, We're Killing the
Kids show in 2007.
The conference will provide the opportunity to share research, experiences, successes, challenges, plans and actions, and to meet others working towards the same goals. The programme will include workshops, walkshops, plenary sessions, and forums as well as time for fun.
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