Ed Mchahon

February 20th, 2007 Ed McMahon, land-use planner, senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C. was keynote speaker at Lancaster County Planning Commission’s kickoff for the development of a “green infrastructure plan. He stated, “When people are offered the opportunity to vote on a Bond to Save Open Space, the Bond passes!” He went on to say, “Conservation of green space within cities greatly enhances their culture, attractiveness, and the property values of businesses as well as homes.”

Peter Katz

Author and consultant, Peter Katz is regarded as a key spokesperson for the New Urbanism, a movement that The New York Times called 'the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era.' He is a professor-in-practice at Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Northern Virginia Center. He provides consulting services in the areas of strategic marketing and community development from offices in Alexandria, Virginia.

About Peter Katz
Form First: The new Urbanist alternative to conventional zoning.
Form-Based Code:
"Of eight advantages to Form-Based Codes: They are prescriptive (they state what you want), rather than proscriptive (what you don’t want), they can achieve a more predictable physical result. They encourage public participation because they allow citizens to see what will happen where! They can regulate development at the scale of an individual building or lot!"
Resources from the Form-Based Codes Institute

Related resources:

Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities By Lydia Bergen (Preface), Edward T McMahon, Mark A. Benedict Conservation Fund.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv,
Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities, Jim Howe.
Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection by Kellert.