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ROLE IN SHAPING PLACE SPRING 2011IDA SPRING CONFERENCECHICAGO, ILAPRIL 5-8, 2011www.ida-downtown.org

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The International Downtown Association is a champion for vital and livable urban centers and strives to inform, influence and inspire downtown leaders and advocates. With 600 members and thousands of friends, IDA is a guiding force in creating healthy and dynamic centers that anchor the well-being of towns, cities and regions of the world. For more information, visit www.ida-downtown.org.

Chicago Loop Alliance (CLA) is a member-based business organization that repre-sents Chicago’s most dynamic mixed-use district—the Loop—and serves Chicago’s rapidly growing central business area. CLA is focused on uniting Loop businesses and organizations to support one another in creating and promoting a vibrant, flourishing Loop where people live, work and play.

In addition, CLA is the service provider to Special Service Area #1, which covers nine blocks of State Street. SSA-funded services include landscaping, power washings, seasonal decorations, events, marketing and infrastructure maintenance. For more infor-mation, visit chicagoloopalliance.com.

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Chicago... Your Kind of Downtown Successful downtowns are well known for providing a “sense of place.” With Chicago’s international reputation and rich history of launching ground-breaking policy initiatives – Chicago is the perfect city to host the spring conference themed “Policy’s Role in Shaping Place.”The conference will feature intensive and interactive dialogue among national and international delegates to explore the vital issues that affect our city centers, including transportation, technology, social issues, public/private collaborations and effective management. In addition to dynamic keynote speakers, sessions and networking receptions, the conference will provide you with fantastic tours that transform Chicago into an “urban laboratory.”

This is your chance to experience Chicago’s world-class attractions, remarkable arts and cultural offerings, second-to-none architecture and public art, critically-acclaimed restaurants and top-tier performing arts groups. Come see for yourself why Chicago attracts millions of visitors from around the globe every year!

Pop-Up Lounge 205 S. State StreetOpen April 6-8; Hours: Wed. & Thurs. 8am-5pm, Fri. 8am-12pm

Pair your morning coffee with a lit-tle artistic inspiration! Conveniently located ½ block away from the Palmer House, one of CLA’s Pop-Up Art Loop galleries will transform into a lounge for IDA attendees. During the conference, the gallery will offer grab-and-go bites during breakfast and session breaks to keep you energized!

Pop-Up Art Loop is CLA’s initiative that converts vacant Loop store-fronts into vibrant public art gal-leries featuring Chicago’s diverse and talented artists.

TuesdayLocation DetailsStay at the iconic Palmer House located in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop--just steps from State Street, Michigan Avenue, Millennium Park and Chicago’s 26 miles of lakefront. Reserve your room by calling (877) 865-5321. Take advantage of the $219 (plus tax) conference rate while supplies last! Hotel Deadline: March 11, 2011. Remember to use your American Airlines discount code 8341DB and save 5%!

• Downtown Association Executives and Staff

• Downtown Association Board Members

• City and Urban Planners• Developers and Investors• Architects and Urban

Designers• Elected and Public

Officials• Law Enforcement and

Criminal Justice Professionals

• Consultants• Cultural Institution Representatives• Academic Professionals and

Students• Housing Advocates• Community Development

Corporation Staff• Tourism Professionals• Meeting Planners

Who Should Attend:

State Street, That Great Street 12:30 – 2:30 pmChicago’s first Special Service Area (or BID as you likely know it) was created in the 1990s as part of the ‘malling’ of State Street. The mall is long gone but the SSA remains and is one of 43 SSAs city-wide. CLA executive director Ty Tabing will lead a tour down the nine-block district discussing the history of State Street, its current status and the services CLA provides on behalf of the SSA.

Razzle, Dazzle: Chicago’s Theater District 3 – 5 pmCome see how Chicago’s historic buildings have been restored and integrated within its revitalized theater district, an exemplary kind of urban renewal. Discover something new about Chicago as a sustainable model city.

Lights, Camera, Architecture 3 – 5 pmAs moviegoers from around the world can tell you, Chicago is a great place to make a movie. The city’s uniquely built environment has co-starred with characters ranging from Ferris Bueller to Batman, the Untouchables to the Blues Brothers. Tour the sites from these popular movies and learn how they fit into the larger context of Chicago architecture.

Segway on the Lakefront (limited to 8) 3 – 5 pmExperience Chicago’s amazing lakefront via Segway! After a brief training on how to use the Segway, trace the development of the lakefront park system from a whole new perspective. Stops include Grant Park and Chicago’s Museum Campus.

Wicker Park/Bucktown Neighborhood Tour 3 – 5 pmThe Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood has emerged as one of Chicago’s trendiest neigh-borhoods. Your tour will take you on a brief ride on the “L” followed by a walk down Milwaukee Avenue – the spine of the neighborhood. The tour will showcase projects implemented from a community master plan including murals, intersection improvements, a façade rebate program and many art projects. Participants will be responsible for paying their train fare ($4.50 round trip) at the time of the tour.

TOURS

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Millennium Park: Chicago’s Crown Jewel 12:30 – 2:30 pmThe importance of Millennium Park to Chi-cago, including its economic impact, is of a much greater magnitude than anyone involved with the project ever imagined. The public response to the park has been astonishing and over four million people visit the park each year. A presentation on the challenges and process of creating the park will be followed by a behind-the-scenes tour.

Daniel Burnham: Architect, Planner, Leader 12:30 – 2:30 pmThe career of Daniel Burnham helped propel an era in which Chicago architecture evolved from small buildings with load-bearing walls to soaring steel-frame skyscrapers. This Loop walking tour stops at some of Burnham’s best-known landmarks. This tour explores all facets of Burnham’s legacy–as an architect, planner, and as a leader in Chicago, the city he cared about most.

Chicago’s Loop by Train 12:30 – 2:30 pmExplore Chicago’s amazing architecture from the unique perspective of the elevated trains and station platforms. Learn about the his-tory of the famous “L” system and how it has shaped the development of the surrounding buildings and districts within the Loop. From 20 feet off the ground, you’ll see architectural details that are missed by most pedestrians at street level. Participants will be responsible for paying their train fare ($4.50 round trip) at the time of the tour.

Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks Catch a game at Wrigley Field! $10 per ticket.1:20 pm - Transportation on your own.

Tuesday, April 5

RECEPTIONCity Target cocktail reception at the historic Sullivan Center 6 – 7:30 pm1 S. State Street Sponsored by

Sponsored by Chicago Architecture Foundation.

• Social Issues in our City Centers: Who is Responsible?: When it comes to the public realm downtown, who has the responsibility of tackling persistent social issues and where is the balance between policy and man-agement solutions?

In the afternoon, international experts including Tim Tompkins from the Times Square Alliance, discuss “Placemaking: New Approaches to the Activation of Place.” Get a global perspective of how the work of placemaking and place management is changing, including a discus-sion of the evolving responsibility of funding and managing these efforts in city centers, their impact and importance. Presentation leads into a series of breakout sessions that delve into various aspects:

• Technology in Place: How does technology change the ways in which people use, get around in, and interact with our places?

• Global Media: Social media has made it nearly as easy to ‘go global’ as it is to ‘go local.’ Learn how cities and downtown orga-nizations are achieving global recognition for their successes online.

• Public Space Management: Who’s in Charge?: The management of our public spaces is increasingly being taken on by downtown organizations and the private sector. What are the policy and accountabil-ity challenges?

• Privatization of Large-scale Community Events: Today Chicago is exploring privatizing the Taste of Chicago and the famous 4th of July fireworks among the many other events it hosts. Are economic and social demands changing the way we do large-scale events?

• Creating Special Arts and Culture Districts: Many cities have created defined districts to encourage the growth and development of certain cultural uses. How are policies important to these districts and how are they implemented harmoniously between the public and private sectors?

Wednesday TOURSReserve Now! Limited Spots Available

Historic Downtown 3 – 5 pmCome see some of the great historical architec-tural landmarks of State Street and Michigan Av-enue from the late 19th/early 20th centuries. This was a time when Chicago was defined as a great cultural and commercial city as showcased through the 1893 World’s Colum-bian Exposition. You’ll see buildings by Burnham, Sullivan, Holabird and Roche and other noted architects.You’ll visit beautiful interior treasures that even many Chicagoans don’t know exist!

Millennium Park: Chicago’s Crown Jewel 3 – 5 pmThe importance of Millennium Park to Chicago, including its economic impact, is of a much greater magnitude than anyone involved with the project ever imagined. The public response to the park has been astonishing and over four million people visit the park each year. A presen-tation on the challenges and process of creating the park will be followed by a behind-the-scenes tour of the park.

RECEPTIONThe Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago 6 – 8 pmEnjoy an evening with your colleagues surrounded by master pieces! Designed by Pritzker Prize–win-ning architect Renzo Piano, the Modern Wing provides a new home for the mu-seum’s collection of 20th- and 21st-centu-ry art. The impressive 264,000 square-foot build-ing opened in 2009 and makes the Art Institute of Chicago the second largest art museum in the United States. The building houses the museum’s world-renowned collections of modern Euro-pean painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography. The Modern Wing allows the Art Institute to take its rightful place as one of the world’s great collec-tions of modern and contemporary art.

Wednesday, April 6

SESSIONSHear from urban leaders around the globe on policy initiatives that impact city centers in a re-gional context, and how the public and private

sectors work together to create ‘place.’

In the morning, CEOs for Cities’ Carol Coletta presents “The City as the Heart of the Region” – a compelling story about why government poli-cies should put our city

centers at the heart of our communities and metro regions.

Five breakout sessions provide a host of interest-ing opportunities to dig deeper. Topic sessions include:

• A Changing Landscape: City Center Demographics: From tracking major shifts in demographics through the census to monitoring the day-to-day ups and downs of your city center, this session highlights the changing landscape of who lives, works and shops in our downtowns and how we can track the trends and put them to work in our downtown organizations.

• Transportation Policy and Initiatives: From Streetcars to High Speed Rail: Transporta-tion policy is shaping every urban area from China to the Americas. In this session, learn about the initiatives that are influencing the development (or not!) of transportation, from the regional perspective to the streetcars that transport us through our city centers, and the economic impact those initiatives are creating.

• Job Creation in our City Centers: We all seek a vibrant 24/7 economy in our city centers, but what about jobs? How do we retain our city centers as a competitive hub for employers and employees?

• Engaging Universities: Learn about how cit-ies, downtown organizations and institutions of higher learning have found creative ways to partner together to achieve common goals.

Thursday TOURSReserve Now! Limited Spots Available

Seats of Power 3 – 5 pmThree levels of govern-ment, three different eras of architecture, all clustered around the intersection of Randolph and Clark. Learn about the archi-tectural, historical and political significance of this Loop location.

This tour visits the City Hall/County Building, the Daley Center, and the Thompson Center (State of Illinois Building).

Chicago’s Fashion Incubator Program 3 – 5 pmThis program demonstrates how unused space can be a catalyst to support creativity in the community. The Chicago Fashion Incubator at Macy’s on State Street provides six emerging Chicago-based designers with the resources to launch their careers in fashion. The Design-ers in Residence create fashions in a space inside Macy’s that was once home to Macy’s phone operators and sat vacant until con-verted to fashion incubator.

Following lunch, join us for an afternoon ple-nary with an expert international panel on “The Economy’s Impact on our City Centers and Commercial Real Estate”, led by Paul Levy from Philadelphia’s Center City District. How are cur-rent economic conditions impacting city centers, and how can we brace for changes yet to come from the commercial real estate sector?

Opportunities to discuss the impact of the economy on downtown organizations will be provided in the afternoon breakouts, which include:

• Privatizing Public Services: Chicago has been a leader in privatization of public services, but other cities are close behind. What are the lessons learned so far?

• Naming Rights and the Sponsorship of Public Venues: Reductions in public budgets mean a shifting role for the private sector in sponsoring and funding public venues. What future trends are emerging?

• Financing Change in Challenging Times: As governmental budgets see significant shortfalls, new funding tools to provide services that maintain city centers and undertake significant projects will be required. This session tackles a discussion on growth and develop-ment incentives, including the creative use of public and private sector financing tools.

• Public/Private Sector Approaches to Eco-nomic Development: How are the public and private sectors internationally working together to undertake downtown economic devel-opment? Examine everything from design review, incentives, policies and, attraction and retention initiatives.

• Managing Retail Environments: The strength-ening of cities has brought with it strengthened retail environments in our downtowns. In this session, explore the evolution of retail in down-town and explore two major retail hubs in downtown Chicago - Michigan Avenue and State Street.

Thursday, April 7

SESSIONSOn day two, government’s role in shaping place takes center stage, with discussions on policies from the federal to local levels. The morning begins with a plenary centered on “The Shifting Roles of Government in Shaping Cities” where you’ll learn more about how policy is created, how the impact of policy is measured, and what we’ve learned about government’s role in the form of our city centers.

Breakout sessions following the morning plenary delve into the roles and relationships between the public and private sectors in downtown management:

• Adapting to New Political Environments and Change: With every change in political leader-ship we can face uncertain times and differing priorities but also opportunity and direction.

• Obama’s Office of Urban Affairs and Federal Policies Affecting the U.S.: Learn the agenda of these key players and how it is impacting our American cities.

• International Approaches to Localism/Region-alism: International policy is shaping global city centers just as quickly as American policy is shaping the U.S. In the session, learn about the evolution of international policy and what trends are emerging, how they are chang-ing the downtown form, and what’s next on international policy-makers agendas.

• Homelessness and Affordable Housing: Join us in this session for a discussion on how plans to end homelessness and provide more afford-able housing have affected our cities. Learn how city center leaders are taking on an increasingly important role.

• TIF as a Tool: A Discussion: TIF has long been heralded as a critically important but contro-versial tool in the development of our city cen-ters. Learn about its uses and implications, how the economic shifts and restricted funding are changing how it’s utilized, and what uses this tool may have on a more global policy scale.

RECEPTIONThe Chicago Architecture Foundation Atrium 6 – 8 pm

Get inspired at this eve-ning reception that will showcase Chicago’s Model City exhibit at the Chicago Archi-tecture Foundation. The exhibit, housed in the historic Santa Fe Building, explores how a region as vast and complex as Chicago takes shape. The ex-

hibition highlights the goals of the people who influence urban life, and it examines the intended and unintended consequences of their actions. The centerpiece of this exhibit is a large-scale model of Chicago that features 1,000 highly detailed buildings including a 3-foot tall model of the Willis Tower (previously Sears Tower).

Friday TOURSReserve Now! Limited Spots Available Green Inside & Out10:30 am – 12:30 pm This tour addresses how architects have (and have not) considered the environ-ment in their development of Chicago’s Loop. We will observe how Chicago School architects of the late 19th century maximized natural light and air and how this practice changed when mid-century buildings began using technology to control their interior environments. The tour then looks at recent trends in green architecture, begin-ning in the early 1980s when concerns about energy efficiency began to affect commercial high-rise design, and continuing to the pres-ent, a new era of district cooling plants and rooftop gardens.

Friday, April 8

SESSIONSThe final morning offers an opportunity to learn about sustainability and greening in our city centers. In a thought provoking plenary, hear from experts in Chicago on how they’ve turned this world-class city into a sustainability leader.

Breakout sessions Friday morning delve deeper into sustainability issues and offer solutions for you to implement at home:

• Rooftop Greening- Policies and Incen-tives to Encourage: Green rooftops are increasingly part of new developments, but in many places older buildings are upping the ante by retrofitting with these environmentally friendly solutions.

• Bike Friendly Cities: Sharrows, bike lanes, shared bike strategies and bike-friendly transportation - these are just some of the strategies that cities are employing to make their centers more “bike friendly.” What’s working and what’s next?

• City-Friendly Recycling: How do we encourage recycling in our city centers and which recycling programs work best, and why?

• Green Alleys and Other City Greening Initiatives: Chicago’s “Green Alleys Hand-book” has become a guide for cities look-ing at opportunities to not only make their alleys more functional, but more inviting. But alleys are just the beginning, green-ing initiatives are hiding everywhere, and this session showcases the latest trends in bringing sustainability to the city.

• Green Technologies: What new technolo-gies are helping cities go green? And how do we afford and implement them?

Extend your stay in the Windy CityWe encourage you to stick around after the conference to take advantage of all the City has to offer including world-renowned museums, highly-acclaimed restaurants, sports, shopping, theater and more! Visit ida-downtown.org or chicagoloopalliance.com for more information.

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Registration Deadline:Advance registrations must be postmarked by March 22, 2011. Onsite registrations include the $50 onsite processing fee.

Payment & Cancellation Policy:Registration fees must be paid in full prior to participation in the conference. A late fee of $50 will be applied to all registrations not paid in full by March 22, 2011. For your convenience, payments may be made by check or credit card (Visa, MasterCard or American Express). Cancellations postmarked by March 22, 2011 will receive a refund less a $75 processing fee. Written notice of cancellation is required. Refunds will be processed approximately 30 days after the event. Cancellations postmarked after March 22, 2011 will not be refunded.

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