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Innovative European Urbanism
3:30—4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, 2005
Sturm Hall, Davis Auditorium
Moderator: James van Hemert, AICP Executive Director The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Denver, Colorado Panelists: Ed Ziegler Professor of Law University of Denver College of Law Denver, Colorado James Kushner Professor of Law Southwestern University School of Law Los Angeles, California
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAND USE INSTITUTE
PLENARY SESSION
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The Urbanization of Suburbia
SMART GROWTH
• SENTIMENTAL NIMBYISM
Land use activists promoting the “public interest” by “fighting sprawl” through various “smart growth” and “environmental protection” restrictions (which enhance the aesthetic character and property values of existing neighborhoods but that actually promote more sprawl).
New West NIMBY
Ridgegate at Lone Tree
Smart Growth
Target
Vienna, Austria
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Innovative European Innovative European UrbanismUrbanism
Professor James A. KushnerSouthwestern Law University
Los Angeles, CaliforniaApril 21, 2005
The Rocky Mountain Land Use InstituteUniversity of Denver