Speaking
Types
of speeches Dom Nozzi can give
in
your community
Road to Ruin: Traffic Congestion, Urban Sprawl, and Quality of
Life (a speech about my book, requiring approximately 45 min.)
The Car is the Enemy of the City: Why over-dependence on car travel is detrimental to
the health of a city (approximately 45 min.)
Government Opposition to Smart Growth: How local governments, not evil or greedy
developers, are usually the biggest opponents of Smart Growth (approximately 40
min.)
Promoting More Bicycling & Improving
Bicycle Safety: (Effective tactics
for increasing the number of bicyclists in your community, and improving
bicycling safety (approximately 25 min.)
Correcting a Downtown Parking Problem: Downtowns commonly provide parking inefficiently,
which creates inefficiencies and scarcities. Find out how to improve your
downtown parking problems (approximately 40 min.)
One-Way Streets: A few benefits, but an overwhelming number of
problems, requiring approximately 30 min.)
Big Box Retail: What can a community do about it? (a speech about
Big Box regulatory strategies, requiring approximately 30 min.)
Form-Based Codes & Transect Regulations: Understand a newly-emerging, proactive, visionary,
equitable, smart way to regulate new development in your community. Learn how
to transform your community to become more walkable (approximately 40 min.)
Sprawl: How to define it, why it is a problem, strategies to minimize it,
smart growth techniques (approximately 50 min.)
Walkable Neighborhoods: How We Lost Them
& How We Can Get Them Back: A
summary of the history of community development, how we lost our way, and how
we can return to the walkable tradition (approximately 30 min.)
Healthy People, Healthy Streets, Healthy
Communities: Fighting Obesity and
Other Health Problems with Urban Design (approximately 40 min.)
Pedestrian Design Principles: An introductory kick-off for creating a pedestrian
master plan (approximately 20 min.)
Bicycle Transportation Design Principles: An introductory kick-off for creating a bicycle
master plan (approximately 20 min.)
Protecting Neighborhood Quality of Life (30 min.)
Attentive Rather than Forgiving Street
Design: How to design streets for
significant safety improvements by obligating attentiveness rather than
“forgiving” inattentiveness, requiring approximately 30 min.)
Road "Diets": Improving streets by
narrowing them (20 min.)
Creating a Community Vision: Essential elements
for creating a vision (20 min.)
Select which
speech is best for you, and schedule me for a speech by sending
email to dom@walkablestreets.com
Dom's
"Road to Ruin" Speech Chronology
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Suwannee-St Johns (FL) Chapter Sierra Club |
October 7, 1999 |
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Citizens Advisory Committee (Gainesville FL Metro Transport Planning) |
March 7, 2000 |
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City Plan Board (Gainesville FL) |
February 24, 2000 |
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Millhopper Library Public Workshop (Gainesville FL) |
May 23, 2000 |
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NE Recreation Center Public Workshop (Gainesville FL) |
June 1, 2000 |
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Westside Park Recreation Center Public Workshop (Gainesville FL) |
June 21, 2000 |
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Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee (Gainesville FL) |
June 27, 2000 |
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TB McPherson Recreation Center Public Workshop (Gainesville FL) |
July 12, 2000 |
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Florida Planning and Zoning Association Annual Conference |
October 26, 2000 |
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4-6 Urban Design/Transportation/Planning classes, Univ of Florida |
1997-2001 |
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Gainesville City Commission |
January 16, 2001 |
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Gainesville Regional Utilities Multi-Purpose Room Public Workshop |
August 22, 2001 |
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Smart Growth Coalition, Webber Center at Central FL CC, Ocala FL |
September 16, 2001 |
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Smart Growth Coalition, Silver Springs Shores, Ocala FL |
January 20, 2002 |
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Volusia County FL Public Workshop |
April 20, 2002 |
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Port St Lucie Audubon Society |
July 20, 2002 |
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Gainesville FL Kiwanis Club |
July 30, 2002 |
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Florida Sierra Club Annual Conference, Ocala FL |
November 9, 2002 |
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Imagine Manatee County, Bradenton/Sarasota FL |
January 11, 2003 |
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Gainesville FL chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons |
October 6, 2003 |
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Goering's Books, Gainesville FL |
October 22, 2003 |
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Community Design Center, Chamber of Commerce, Gainesville FL |
February 7, 2004 |
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NE Florida Chapter Sierra Club, Lakewood Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville FL |
February 9, 2004 |
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Dr. Najafi's Engineering class, University of Florida |
March 4, 2004 |
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Commonspace, St Louis MO |
March 13, 2004 |
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The Ethical Society, St Louis MO |
March 14, 2004 |
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Urban Planning Class, St Louis University, St Louis MO |
March 15, 2004 |
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Alternatives to Sprawl conference, Boulder CO |
March 20, 2004 |
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Suncoast Chapter of the Florida American Planning Association, Ybor City FL |
April 13, 2004 |
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Citizens Advisory Committee of the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization, Tampa FL |
April 14, 2004 |
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Central Florida Sierra Club, Orlando FL |
April 21, 2004 |
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City of Asheville Planning Department, City Hall, Asheville NC |
June 24, 2004 |
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Western North Carolina Sierra Club, Unitarian Church, Asheville NC |
June 24, 2004 |
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Winston-Salem Neighborhood Alliance, Wake Forest University Law School, Winston-Salem NC |
June 25, 2004 |
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Evansville Preservation Alliance, 1st Presbyterian Church, Evansville IN |
July 9, 2004 |
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Evansville Preservation Alliance, Evansville Pub. Library, Evansville IN |
July 10, 2004 |
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Tampa-Hillsborough County FL Metro Planning Organization, County Center Bldg, Tampa FL |
August 3, 2004 |
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Meadowview Conference Center, Kingsport TN |
October 1, 2004. |
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Dr. Najafi's Engineering class, University of Florida |
October 20, 2004 |
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Environmental Summit, Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville FL |
November 20, 2004 |
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Dr. Connerly's Urban Planning class, Florida State University |
January 11, 2005 |
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Dr. Najafi's Engineering class, University of Florida |
February 17th, 2005 |
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Public Policy Institute, Central Florida Community College, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala FL |
April 13, 2005 |
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Ecology Action Center, Halifax Nova Scotia |
July 11, 2005 |
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Glatting Jackson Urban Design Consulting, Orlando FL |
November 3, 2005 |
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Rally for the Rivers Conference, FL Defenders, Palatka FL |
February 17, 2006 |
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ProBike/ProWalk Florida Conference, Orlando
FL |
August
28, 2007 |
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Bioneers Conference, Keynote Speaker,
Bloomington IN |
October
19, 2007 |
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Indiana Department of Transportation,
Indianapolis IN |
October
22, 2007 |
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National Community Planning Month & Urban
Planning Scholar Speaker Series, Bloomington IN |
October
22, 2007 |
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Ball State University Luncheon at Meridian
Center, Indianapolis IN |
October
23, 2007 |
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Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center,
Indianapolis IN |
October
23, 2007 |
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Historic MidNorth Neighborhoods Initiative,
Indianapolis IN |
October
23, 2007 |
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South Anastasia Communities Association,
Crescent Beach FL |
December
5, 2007 |
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2008 Virginia American Planning Association
Annual Planning Conference, Reston VA |
March
28, 2008 |
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Neighborhood Council of St Augustine,
Annual Mtg, St Augustine FL |
July
1, 2008 |
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Roanoke River Group of the Sierra Club
& the Environmental Concerns Committee of the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Roanoke VA |
July
11, 2008 |
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Virginia Recreation and Park Society Annual
Conference, Richmond VA |
October
5, 2008 |
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2008 Cornelius O'Brien Historic
Preservation & Indiana Mainstreet Conference, Bloomington IN |
October
17, 2008 |
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General Education/Sustainability, Temple University,
Philadelphia PA |
March
31, 2009 |
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Canadian Institute of Traffic Engineers,
Annual Conf, Montreal Canada |
June
3, 2009 |
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Great Lakes Metros & New Opportunity
Summit, Buffalo NY |
June
18, 2009 |
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2009 National Scenic Byways Conference, Denver
CO |
August
25, 2009 |
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Rio Bike Nights Guest Speaker Series, Ft
Collins CO |
July
21, 2010 |
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