Good Urbanism 101 travels to Augusta for a half-day seminar focusing on the history, principles, and current practices of community design, including an emphasis on walkability, integration of alternative transportation options, sustainability, and the relationship between public infrastructure and the pedestrian experience in Augusta. Join the Georgia Conservancy’s Growth Management Program and Georgia Tech professors Richard Dagenhart, David Green, and Doug Allen to learn about sustainable community design and how different professions can collaborate to improve our cities, including Augusta.

This Web briefing provides background and examples of collaborative planning, community and thoroughfare design, design issue resolution, innovative financing,  value capture through redevelopment and public/private partnerships. It will provide two examples of the use of the Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) approach to develop a vision, objectives and design for an urban thoroughfare in areas targeted for redevelopment.

GAZA is an approved provider of Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for AICP-certified administrators, and the Summer conference will be submitted as a CM-eligible event.

Around the country, communities are confronting threats to their health and quality of life - high rates of chronic disease, unhealthy food choices, stress, economic challenges, and few opportunities for an active lifestyle, as well as overwhelming medical costs and a growing elderly population. Increasingly, they are seeking to solve these threats by changing the places they live, work, and go to school.

The Joint Land Use Study Implementation Summit for Fort Stewart/ Hunter Army Airfield.

"We'll get through it, but the era of cheap and abundant water is over." -Bill Holman Once considered an unlimited resource in the Carolinas and Georgia, protecting both the quality and availability of water is becoming an ever increasing challenge. To offer a forum for discussion of these critical issues the first Tri-state Watershed Symposium […]

Elected city officials attending the Summit will receive a 6 hour credit through the Municipal Training Institute. The Summit is also approved for 4 hours of AICP Certification Maintenance Credit.

GCHP, is a new web-based interactive tool created to provide a better understanding of coastal resources, coastal hazards and the effects of rapid population growth and development. This online tool can be utilized in many ways; such as, identifying vulnerability to coastal hazards and identifying connections between hazards and natural resources.