Equitable Development: Giving Sustainability A Push

Eley will build his presentation around on-the-ground experience related to equitable development in places such as Indianapolis, IN, Chicago, IL, and Fruitvale, CA. His topics include the importance of public transportation and the accompanying development around transit, brownfield revitalization, and tying green roof policies (an example green technology) to development efforts. A central theme to be stressed is that today, social equity provides a necessary fourth dimension to our discussion where benefits to the economy, the community, and the environment are insufficient metrics of success. Eley's remarks focusing on equitable development will explain how communities are assuming the responsibility to fill the voids of housing, economic development, and services that were left unattended by government and the private sector. He will also share outcomes from the "Vision for Broadway" technical assistance effort in Gary, Indiana, which applied equitable development as a guiding principle of the project. In 2010, the effort received the American Planning Association Divisions Council Contribution to the Profession award.