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Rebuilding and Renewing America: Infrastructure Strategies for the Southwest Megaregion

This event will provide an opportunity to

This event will provide an opportunity to

– identify new financing options, and the major transportation, energy and water infrastructure priorities in the Southwest Megaregion that are also issues of national interest;

– find common ground on programs and policies that would help our regions and subregions meet their core infrastructure challenges;

– establish a network of business, civic, government and academic organizations through America 2050 West to work on building the Southwest Megaregion and pushing its collective agenda.

The America 2050 effort is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Local sponsors include Southern California Edison, LINC Housing Corporation, Kern Council of Governments, Metropolitan Water District, Southern California Association of Governments and Los Angeles Economic Development Council.

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AARON NAPARSTEK is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek’s journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is the author of "Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage" (Villard, 2003), a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the endless motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Prior to launching Streetsblog, Naparstek worked as an interactive media producer, pioneering some of the Web's first music web sites, online communities, live webcasts and social networking services. Naparstek is currently in Cambridge with his wife and two young sons where he is enjoying a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Naparstek is a co-founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. You can find more of his work here: http://www.naparstek.com.

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