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Study
Trip Options
On Tuesday September 7 we will offer the following excursions/study
tours as well as a day long workshop. These are included in your registration
fee. Please read through the options and then make your selections at the bottom.
TOUR AND WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
I. OHIO RIVER WAY PROJECT: PLANNING ACROSS BOUNDARIES ALONG THE OHIO RIVER
(FULL DAY)
The Ohio River Way (ORW)is a nonprofit organization that is coordinating a
regional initiative of civic and business leaders, environmental activists,
elected officials, tourism officers, educators and others to plan for and invest
in the restoration of the Ohio River corridor. The centerpiece of the river
revitalization effort is a braided trail of river recreation, commerce, arts,
ecology and history--from Maysville, Kentucky to Madison, Indiana. Their plans
include a 150-mile Recreation and Heritage Trail and Greenway, a downtown RiverWalk,
a three dimensional, immersive web site linking tourist destinations, and an
audio tour and guide book. The tour will bring conference participants to a
charming riverfront town midway between Louisville and Cincinnati, then to
the epicenter of the economic revitalization of the cities of Northern Kentucky,
and finally to the setting of a new urban park with an international flair
on Cincinnati’s river bank. Our tour guide will be Patricia Timm, President
and CEO of The Ohio River Way. We will learn what sparked their bold and imaginative
vision, how they cast their net for participants and formed a partnership with
many of the region’s most powerful institutions, and what their accomplishments
and travails have been. They stretch across 16 counties, 53 towns and cities,
and numerous political jurisdictions. Join the tour and learn how they have
spanned these boundaries.
DAYLONG TOUR
II. WEST LOUISVILLE: BUILDING TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY (FULL DAY)
West Louisville, an area experiencing severe economic distress, is the site
of several community and economic development initiatives. These include
the creation of a local Empowerment Zone, a HOPE VI housing revitalization
project, and an economic development strategy crafted with the help of Michael
Porter and the non-profit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. Foundations,
financial institutions, community development corporations, government agencies
and private enterprise are partners in these and other efforts to guide the
area's transition. This tour will consider whether these efforts, when considered
comprehensively, are successfully transforming West Louisville into a sustainable
community.
III. "THE BLUEGRASS OF KENTUCKY: A WORLD-CLASS LANDSCAPE AT RISK" (FULL
DAY)
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The Bluegrass Region of Kentucky is the center of the international Thoroughbred
industry. A unique combination of geology and human activity have created not
only "the most beautiful factory in the world" but a landscape that
is one of the symbols of Kentucky and the United States. This tour will focus
on the history of the region, the threats to the region from urban sprawl,
and the innovative steps are being taken to protect the region. In addition
to visiting a world-famous Kentucky Thoroughbred horse farm, the group will
also tour the United State's first urban growth boundary."
Included in this tour will be a stop at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.
Bernheim connects people and nature by:
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Providing ample opportunities for quiet, personal experiences with the outdoors,
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Fostering curiosity and the love of learning with imaginative, inter-disciplinary,
outdoor-oriented horticultural and natural history programs and exhibits, as
well as nature-inspired art and cultural activities, and by
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Increasing understanding of the natural world through progressive, inter-disciplinary
research in horticulture, natural areas management, and habitat restoration.
This tour leaves at 7:45am, arrive Lexington area 9am. Leaves Lexington area
for Bernheim and lunch at 12pm. Arrive back in Louisville by 4pm.
IV. CHARRETTE/WORKSHOP
"AIR QUALITY AND URBAN PLANNING IN LOUISVILLE, KY": (FULL DAY)
Full Day workshop with a break at 12:15 for the downtown walking tour included.
This day long workshop will address air quality and pollution control and urban
planning in Louisville, Kentucky. We will address systemic approaches to improving
air quality and the role that urban planners might take in establishing and
implementing incentives and policies. We will invite city officials and community
members to engage in this exercise along with 10-15 conference participants.
The goal will be to share knowledge from conference participants with local
officials and create lasting connections between Louisville, Kentucky and other
urban metropolitan areas across the country and around the world.
V. EXPLORE LOUISVILLE WATERWAYS BY CANOE (1/2 DAY)
Participate with the Jefferson county Public Schools program to explore Beargrass
Creek, (drains 67 square miles urban Louisville) and the Ohio River by Voyageur
Canoe. After a safety orientation, participants will paddle 30 foot historically
accurate canoes while investigating a 200 years of use and abuse of area streams
and rives
Two Sessions:
Session 1: 9am-12pm
Session 2: 1pm-4pm
VI. CONSERVATION TOOLS IN AN URBAN CONTEXT(1/2 DAY Morning):
Historic Preservation, Conservation Easements, and
Scenic Byways in the Ohio River corridor
This half-day mini-bus tour will explore the many historic resources along
the Ohio River within minutes of downtown Louisville on the Upper River Road
Scenic Byway, including: the nationally significant historic district, The
Country Estates of River Road, a 700 acre district listed as one of America’s
Eleven Most Endangered Places in 1999, a contiguous natural landscape and river
framed in settings of extraordinary landscapes designed by America’s
premier country estate landscape designers; a subdivision developed by an African-American
in 1919; a Rosenwald School; a 1916 one-lane bridge; and vestiges of the old
interurban rail line. Current threats to these significant cultural resources
and tools for conservation used to preserve this area will be discussed, including
conservation easements, scenic byway designation, listing on the national register
of historic places, advocacy, and other land trust and advocacy tools.
Sponsored by: River Fields, Inc.
VII. RETAIL DEVELOPMENT TOUR (1/2 Day Afternoon)
The Retail Development Division of the Metro Development Authority administers
a new umbrella program titled COOL(Corridors Of Opportunity in Louisville),
whose purpose is to encourage and facilitate retail development along commercial
corridors to enhance neighborhood quality of life. COOL staff will act as tour
guides to present a healthy slice of Louisville's retail breadth and progress.
This tour opportunity includes retail development sites completed, planned
, and possible. You will see Downtown Entertainment, HOPE VI, Urban & Suburban
Neighborhood retail, Mom & Pops, Freestanding, Big Box, traditional Regional
Enclosed Malls, Lifestyle Centers, and Power Centers.
VIII. DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE: AN HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR OF THE FALLS CITY. (1.5
hrs.) The walking tour of the city center will be led by Tom Owen, a University
of Louisville archivist, historian and Louisville Metro Council member. Owen
is a lively raconteur who entertains and teaches about history and development.
Owen serves as a board member with the Citizens for Advancement of Regional
Transportation; is a local planning committee member for the Lewis and Clark
Bicentennial Celebration; and has served on the Kentucky Bicentennial Commission
and the Advisory Committee of the Kentucky Heritage Council.
Session 1: 10:30AM
Session 2: 12:15AM
Each lasts about one hour and fifteen minutes.
CHOOSE A TOUR/WORKSHOP
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