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September 9, 2007
"Transportation Planning & Stronger Communities"
by Keith Bartholomew, University of Utah College of Architecture & Planning

Keith Bartholomew is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning in the University of Utah’s College of Architecture & Planning. An environmental lawyer, Professor Bartholomew received his J.D. from the University of Oregon and worked for ten years as the staff attorney for 1000 Friends of Oregon, a community development and land use planning advocacy organization in Portland. While at 1000 Friends, Professor Bartholomew was the director of “Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection” (LUTRAQ), a nationally recognized research program examining the inactive effects of community development patterns and travel behavioral patterns. Professor Bartholomew is also the former associate director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the U of U’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.

"The recent reauthorization of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act, the nation’s primary transportation funding and planning statute, has caused some to question whether the Act fosters greater integration of transportation and community development. In exploring this issue, Professor Bartholomew will begin with observations on the purpose of cities and how they necessitate transportation systems. He will then discuss the history and principles of transportation planning policy, providing a critique of current transportation planning processes and offering recommendations for transportation decision-making processes that foster stronger communities."

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