Economic Development: Resources and Tools to Help Your County

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Learn about "New Urbanism", a movement The New York Times calls "the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era." New Urbanism strives to limit suburban sprawl and its ill effects by revitalizing our cities.

Keynote speaker Peter Katz, author of "The New Urbanism: Toward An Architecture of Community," once aided developers in marketing suburban sprawl. Today, he is one of its fiercest critics.

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