Cincinnati’s Urban Land Institute is sponsoring a Walkable Neighborhoods tour on March 26th and 27th. The conference should enhance our regional understanding of the value created by workforce housing in walkable neighborhoods. The conference will define workforce housing, depict its existing role within our region, and envision its application in future developments of walkable neighborhoods in our region. This should be a great opportunity to learn about how to create and sustain Workforce Housing in Cincinnati and beyond. The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s President Scott Bernstein will be a keynote speaker for the Saturday session.

To register for the Conference, email raser@glaserworks.com.

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On Tuesday, March 23rd, the Center for Neighborhood Technology will host a lecture by Jacky Grimshaw called “East-West Perspectives.” Jacky joined CNT in 1992 and has since developed its capacity to engage in public policy advocacy, transportation research, public participation tool development, GIS mapping, and community economic development. Jacky created and has led CNT’s transportation and air quality programs and has led CNT’s Transit Future Campaign in the fight for mass transit reform in the Chicago region.

East-West Perspectives is a series of monthly lectures hosted by East-West University. All events are free, and are held on the third Tuesday of
every month from January to March, October and November. The April and May events are held on the third Wednesday of the month.

To register for the event, contact Mital Patel at (312) 939-0111 extension 1820.

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Dustin Phillips took this cool photo of the Lacede’s Landing, with the St. Louis arch in the background, a few months ago. I came across it again while perusing the GLUE flickr, and was struck by how different the arch looks here than in other photos. Dustin even took a totally different-looking photo of the arch the same day. In one photo, the arch is dwarfed by the buildings around it. In the other, though, the monument looks impossibly tall and hulking. Thanks, Dustin, for depicting one national landmark in two totally different–but very cool–ways!

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The Adler Institute on Social Exclusion (whose director, Lynn Todman, Ph.D., spoke at GLUE’s annual conference last year) is hosting its annual conference on June 3-4, 2010. The conference, entitled “The Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action” will help participants understand the relationship between social conditions and mental health. Dr. Todman provided such deep insight into the intractability of certain social issues at our conference last year and introduced our participants to a new perspective on addressing these social challenges. I’m sure this conference will provide similar new insight for its attendants…

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Updayton is planning its Young Creatives Summit to help young leaders in Dayton articulate their ideas for Dayton’s future.  Updayton was created in 2007 “to spur economic growth within the region by attracting and retaining young talent. updayton will do this by engaging, connecting and empowering young creatives in the Miami Valley.”

On April 16 at the Dayton Convention Center, young professionals will b

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The Foresight Design Initiative in Chicago sent over info about their annual sustainable design training program. The 8-week program isn’t cheap, but sustainability mavens might find immense value in the workshops, site visits, and connections. Below is all the info about Foresight Immersion, which runs from June 16 through August 11, 2010…

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Spring has sprung…for real? For this week? Who knows, but I’ll take it. Thanks to PostModern Sleaze, a.k.a. Andrew Faulkner, who took this picture of the first green of the year. The home in the background, though, isn’t getting revived by the good weather. It’s old and abandoned, but you can see how beautiful this house and yard would have been in March years ago. Andrew’s caption for this photo is “Life imitates art imitating life?” Thanks for the photo, Andrew, and thanks to everyone for submitting your photos to the Flickr Pool.

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In celebration of local public transit and in an effort to display creative support for the April 6, 2010 county vote on Proposition A, St. Louis activists have organized the most innovative music festival in the United States. Whats Up Magazine, a local independent social justice publication providing unique perspective and employment to the homeless, will present the CITY SOUND TRACKS Music Festival on Saturday, March 27, 2010. This should be a great, innovative, and fun event for St. Louis residents and out-of-towners!

Here’s some information from What’s Up Magazine:

“CITY SOUND TRACKS is the music festival that moves you. Over the course of a full day, CITY SOUND TRACKS will provide riders with the opportunity to move along MetroLink, the local light rail system, while stopping off to listen to great local bands. The price of admission is the train ticket – any pass will be sufficient – and each stage will be only a short walk from one of several stations. In a joint effort with local organizations, CITY SOUND TRACKS will offer a listening and traveling experience that is peerless, while also demonstrating how useable public transit is for bringing our community together…

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The Federal Communications Commission and the Knight Foundation are hosting a March 9th summit to highlight solutions to the challenge of providing broadband for everyone. Called America’s Digital Inclusion Summit: Working Together to Expand Opportunity Through Universal Access, the event will be held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. and will feature a wide range of broadband leaders and members of Congress. The program will include a “voices of inclusion” segment providing an opportunity for people to share their stories about how broadband – or the lack of it – has affected their lives.

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In last Thursday’s GLUEsletter, we announced that our new website will contain a feature for which we need you (yes, YOU) to produce some content. GLUE is looking for volunteer writers from each of our 20+ cities to help us tell the insider’s story of Flint, Cleveland, Fort Wayne, and beyond. Our in-design new website will contain City Portals–travel guides for the Rust Belt enthusiasts and civically engaged. You can write about what trends you believe are changing Milwaukee; great green space and other city assets in Columbus; or simply give us a tour of your Pittsburgh neighborhood. Here’s a teaser from Anthony Armstrong’s reflections on Buffalo: …

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