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Vision California: Calthorpe Associates leads statewide effort
(June 2009)

Calthorpe Associates is leading Vision California, an unprecedented effort funded by the California High Speed Rail Authority to explore the critical role of land use and transportation investments in meeting the environmental and fiscal challenges facing the state over the coming decades. It will produce a series of alternative physical visions for how California can accommodate expected growth, and clearly express the consequences of these options. The results will inform decisions about the investments and policies that will drive the state's growth.

Calthorpe Presents to High-Speed Rail Authority
(Sacramento, March 2010)

Peter Calthorpe presents the first results of Vision California.  The project is the recipient of a $1.5 million grant from the Strategic Growth Council. 

How Slums Can Save the Planet
Prospect Magazine (January 2010)

Sixty million people in the developing world are leaving the countryside every year. The squatter cities that have emerged can teach us much about future urban living.

SF Chronicle: State Exploring Detailed Strategy for Growth
San Francisco Chronicle (November 2009)

With little fanfare and a modest budget, work has begun that could lead to something California has never had - an explicit government vision for how and where the state should grow.

Calthorpe speaks at Commonwealth Club: Redefining Growth - Build it Green
Commonwealth Club (October, 2009)

Redefining Growth: Build It Green

Peter Calthorpe and Ed Mazria, two architects with green on the brain, lay out the blueprints to a better future.

Calthorpe speaks at Brookings Institution Event: Metropolitan Planning for Sustainable Growth
Brookings Institution (October, 2009)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 9:00 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC