AIA Las Vegas - 24-Hour Town Hall Meeting

April 13th and 14th 2007 the Las Vegas chapter of the American Institute of Architects conducted a 24-Hour Town Hall Meeting / Design Charrette, based on the core objectives of the 'Blueprint for America' initiative, in support of the AIA 150 nationwide celebration. Nevada Public Radio is proud to continue their relationship with AIA in airing hourly coverage of this unique event.

Here are audio summaries of the committee reports...

Arts and Culture - Kevin Kemner and Vince Novak

Economic Development - Brett Ewing and Ed Vance

Education - Wade Simpson and Dean Lanuke

Housing - Rick Van Diepen and Deepaka Padam

Planning and Development - Mark Hobaica and Jeff Rhoads

Resources - Lance Kirk and Eric Roberts

Social Infrastructure - David Brom and David Moss

Transportation and Public Safety - Windom Kimsey and Mike Del Gatto

Michael Del Gatto, architect

Members of Transportation committee confer...

The Mayors

Get involved! AIA and UNLV are hosting a blog and you can post your thoughts on making our community more livable.

The goals of the 24-Hour Town Hall Meeting include:

* Identifying consensus about how to improve a community's livability

* Highlighting the ability of architects to translate the preferred future vision of citizen participants into a vision of character, form, scale, and attainability

* Elevate the public's understanding of good design

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