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CREATING

April 21, 2011Best Western Lamplighter InnCrystal North Ballroom591 Wellington Road S. London8:00a - 12:30p

Dr. Larry Frank - Professor and Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation, University of British Columbia

Ken Greenberg - Former Director of Urban Design and Architecture, City of Toronto, Principal Greenberg Consultants

Dr. Jason Gilliland - Director, Urban Development Program, University of Western Ontario

Contact Joanne Hoevenaars to RSVP for this FREE event atjoanne.hoevenaars@mlhu.on.ca or (519) 663-5317 ext. 2254 by April 8, 2011 as part of the Healthy Communities Partnership Middlesex-London

This event is for London and Middlesex Community Members, Planners, Engineers, Health Professionals, Educators, Community Leaders, Politicians, Urban Designers, Developers, Business Leaders, Architects and more.

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Agenda8:00a Registraon

8:30a Welcome (Dr. Graham Polle - Middlesex London Health Unit)

8:45a From Evidence To Pracce: Evaluang The Health Impacts of Land Use and Transportaon (Dr. Larry Frank)

10:00a Break

10:15a Walking Home (Ken Greenberg)

11:15a The Built Environment And Childrens Health: Evidence From London-Middlesex (Dr. Jason Gilliland)

12:25p Closing

Dr. Larry Frank, PhD, AICP, CIP, ASLA

Dr. Frank is the Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportaon at the University of Brish Columbia and a Senior

Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Instuon. He specializes in the interacon between land use, travel behaviour, air

quality, and health. He has been studying the effects of neighbourhood walkability on travel paerns and sustainability for

over 15 years. He has lead or co-authored dozens of papers and two Island Press books, Health and Community Design - The

Impacts of The Built Environment on Physical Acvity, and Urban Sprawl and Public Health, on these topics. In June of 2004, his

study Obesity Relaonships with Community Design, Physical Acvity, and Time Spent in Cars was released documenng for

the first me relaonships between travel habits, neighbourhood design characteriscs, and the odds of being obese. He and

his colleagues have also been conducng detailed assessments of fuel consumpon and climate change impacts of urban formpolicies. Over the past decade Dr. Frank has been working directly with local governments to help translate results from

research into pracce based tools (e.g. I-PLACE3S developed by the Sacramento Council of Governments) that can provide

direct feedback on the health and environmental impacts of alternave transportaon and land development proposals.

Ken Greenberg, FRAIC, TSA, AIA Associate Member, IFUD Fellow, Urban Design Forum Member

Ken Greenberg is an architect and urban designer, living in Toronto. For over three decades he has played a pivotal role on

public and private assignments in urban sengs throughout North America and Europe, focusing on the rejuvenaon of

downtowns, waterfronts, neighbourhoods and university campuses from the scale of the city region to that of the city block.

Cies as diverse as Toronto, Harord, Amsterdam, New York, Boston, Montral, Washington, DC, Paris, Detroit, Saint Paul and

San Juan, Puerto Rico, have benefited from his advocacy and passion for restoring the vitality, relevance and sustainability of

the public realm in urban life. A former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for the City of Toronto and Principal ofGreenberg Consultants, he is the recipient of the 2010 American Instute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Award for public

design excellence.

Dr. Jason Gilliland, BA (Hon), MA, MArch, PhD

Dr. Jason Gilliland is Director of the Urban Development Program, Associate Professor of Geography, and Associate Professor of

Health Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He is also a Scienst with both the Children's Health Research Instute

and the Lawson Health Research Instute based in London, Ontario. He is a regular consultant for municipal and provincial

departments of planning, transportaon, housing, childrens services, food & agriculture, and public health, as well as an acve

volunteer, currently serving on nearly two dozen boards and commiees of non-profit organizaons across Canada, many in

London-Middlesex. In 2010, he was awarded an Angel Award by the Old East Village (BIA) for his ongoing volunteer efforts in

the revitalizaon of that community. He holds a BA from McMaster University, as well as a Master of Arts, Master of

Architecture, and Doctorate in Geography from McGill University. Dr Gilliland is internaonally-recognized for his research on

urban development and public health issues, and in 2009, he was recognized with an award from the Canadian Associaon of

Geographers for Outstanding Achievement by an Early Career Scholar for his contribuon to research on children in the city.