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EVENT NEWS RELEASE/February 13, 2008

Ellen Greenberg to Discuss Traffic at the March 6 Fettuccine Forum

Ellen Greenberg, a city planning and urban design consultant from Oakland, Calif., will speak about the challenges of urban traffic at the March Fettuccine Forum. The free event is Mar. 6 in the Rose Room on the historic Union Block, 718 W. Idaho Street. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the presentation begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by questions. Free appetizers will be served and fettuccine will be available for $5.

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Her presentation, titled “The Opposite of Traffic: Counterintuitive Thoughts About City Streets,” will explore managing traffic in conjunction with residential and commercial planning.

Greenberg is a principal of Freedman, Tung and Bottomley. She serves on the project management team for a joint project between the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers to develop new national design guidance for major urban streets. While serving as director of policy and research at the CNU, her publications included “Codifying New Urbanism,” “Civilizing Downtown Highways” and “Greyfields into Goldfields: Dead Malls Become Living Neighborhoods.” Greenberg also directed the organization’s research on land development and design regulations to implement compact, walkable communities, with an emphasis on transit-oriented development.

The forum also features a companion workshop titled “Transportation in Crisis,” taught by Boise city planner Kathleen Lacey. Participants can register for the workshop, offered for graduate and undergraduate credit, through BroncoWeb at http://broncoweb.boisestate.edu. Teachers seeking professional education credit options may contact Nancy Tacke at 426-4629 for more information.

The forum is co-sponsored by Boise State University’s Center for Idaho History and Politics and the Boise City Office of the Mayor. The Fettuccine Forum is an educational forum about the history and cultural life of Boise and the Treasure Valley. The final two speakers for this season are:
• April 3 — Kathleen Haase. “We Ought to be in Pictures: Hollywood in Idaho.” Accompanying workshop, “Art and Culture,” taught by Karen Bubb of the Boise City Arts Commission and Nancy Tacke.
• May 1 — Barbara Perry Bauer. “Once Upon the Trolly: Boise’s Electric Road.” Accompanying workshop, “Boise’s Historic Streetscape,” taught by historian Bauer.

Additional sponsors include Capital City Development Corporation, erstad Architects, Idaho Smart Growth, the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Boise State and Grape Escape.

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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Wednesday, February 13, 2008