Street Smart wins CNU's Charter Award
Reconnecting America's new book, Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century, has won the Congress for the New Urbanism's prestigious Charter Award, to be presented at the 15th Annual Congress in Philadelphia on Friday, May 18. The book was selected by a jury that chose "those projects that best embody and advance the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism." Winners "set the gold standard for urban design and development," according to the awards announcement.
Read the Charter Award press release here: http://cnu.org/node/927
Buy Street Smart here: http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/public/books
Testimony for U.S. House of Representatives
Shelley Poticha
"Opportunities to strengthen Transit-Oriented Development through the New Starts Proecess" Congressional Testimony of Shelley Poticha, President of Reconnecting America presented before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, United States House of Representatives September 26, 2007.
Learn about the potential for streetcars in Denver: Denver Streetcar Workshop
Join Reconnecting America, the City and County of Denver, the Community Streetcar Coalition, APTA, the Denver and Colorado AIA, and the Seaside Institute for A WORKSHOP ABOUT STREETCARS based on the award-winning book STREET SMART: STREETCARS AND CITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2007 7:45 a.m.-5 p.m. L2 Auditorium, 1477 Columbine St., Denver, CO 80206
RA in the news/WSJ video
Shelley Poticha appears in two national articles this week, in USA Today and the Wall St. Journal. USA Today takes the unusual approach of looking at "transit-ready" development, projects built before a transit line exists - and even if there are no plans for one.
Meanwhile, the Wall St. Journal shows once again that TOD is the hottest form of development going. The article is accompanied by a short video report from Naugatuck, Connecticut, where plans for significant TOD are underway.
Smart Growth debate in LA Times
New Report for FTA and HUD
Check out our newly-released report, "Realizing the Potential: Expanding Housing Opportunities Near Transit."
RA in the New York Times
Reconnecting America Vice President for Communications Gloria Ohland is quoted in a story in the April 22nd issue of the New York Times:
“The basic reason that transit-oriented development is working in Utah and other places is largely demographic,” said Gloria Ohland, vice president for communications at Reconnecting America, a national transit research group based in Oakland, Calif. “American households are older, smaller and more diverse,” she said. “Singles are 41 percent of the population. People who are single and couples that have no children — those are the people who gravitate to cities.”
To read the full article, follow this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/realestate/22nati.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
RA President Shelley Poticha testifies before Congress
RA President Shelley Poticha testified today in front of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. In her presentation, Poticha called for federal, regional and local agencies to ”be required to work together to coordinate transportation and housing investments in service of broad national goals.“
- Download full text of the testimony. · MSWORD