PLENARY SESSION: LONG-TERM, CROSS-SECTOR RESEARCH & URBAN REGENERATION IN DENVER John Knott, City Craft Ventures LLC Jeni Cross, Colorado State University Austin Troy, University of Colorado Denver Barbara Jackson, University of Denver

2. Value proposition for our team: Why universities?
Capacity
• Unique for each school
• Analytic skills
Trusted source of
knowledge
• Collection hub
• Translation hub
• Information sharing
• Impartiality
Multiplying leaders and
training the workforce
• A variety of fields

3. Metrics for Community
Use
City as Lab
• Significant influence on the
way curriculum is shaped
for applied outcomes
Data Visualization

4. Building the Research Foundation and Applied Learning
Center for Systems Scale Urban Regeneration

5. Burns School of
Real Estate &
Construction
Mgmt.
College of
Architecture
and Planning Law School
Department
of Media, Film
and
Journalism Studies
Denver
Integrated
Research
CenterCCSU
School
of
Sociology
Institute for
the Built
Environment
Department
of
Anthropology
Center
for
Energy
and
Behavior
College of
Health
and
Human
Sciences
CU Law School
Center for
Geospatial
Research
Estlow Center
CISBE

6. Gentrification
West Colfax
Sun
Valley
High Poverty
Low Investment
Downtown
Mariposa
Auraria
Union Station
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10. Developing and Employing Performance
Indicators
1. Connectivity
2. Natural Systems
3. Education & Careers
4. Affordability
5. Health & Food
6. Empowerment
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13. Data & Monitoring Hub
Planning and Design
Translational Services
Applied Technologies for
Urban Resource Efficiency
Urban Health Equity Regenerative Development
Integrative Process
Facilitation & Research
Best Practices Repository
Professional Co-laboratory
Integrated Project Leadership
“Learning by Doing” Training Center
Hub for Transformational Thinking
Industry-Academic InterfaceHub for Long-term Research Projects
West Denver
Renaissance
Collaborative

14. West Denver
Renaissance
Collaborative

15. Industry Academic Interface
Hub for Transformational Thinking
Professional Collaboratory
Integrated Project Leadership “Learning by Doing”
Training Center

16. “A private university doing public good.”
Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and
Construction Management
Daniels College of Business
Connecting People, Purpose and Projects

17. Committed to changing
the way leaders and teams
think about managing and
leading complex projects in
the development of
optimized, integrated
solutions for the built
environment.

18. • Research and educational emphasis
focused externally – to influence current
industry practice, and the education of
the next generation of AEC and RE
professionals.
• Focus on industry connectivity to
uncover the real issues to drive
performance based solution finding and
applied research that makes a
difference.

19. • Focusing on outreach to impact
transformational practice. Drawing on
integrative thinkers, change agents,
transformational projects, and practices,
and facilitating high intentional
engagement.
• Teaching industry practitioners how to
think differently, embrace complexity,
tolerate uncertainty, and manage tension
in searching for creative solutions to
problems.

20. • Training and preparing the next
generation of built environment
integrated project managers and
leaders.
• Development of a “Learn-by-
Doing” training center to
develop Integrated Project
Leaders (IPLs) and create a
residency based (embedded),
professional sabbatical
experience for working AEC and
RE professionals.

21. • A professional collaboration space created
to attract and engage diverse working
professionals associated with the built
environment. This team environment
draws solution finders intent on
developing integrated, optimized
solutions.
• Part think tank, innovation space and
learning laboratory for professionals.
Foundry – Plano TX

22. Applied Technologies for Urban Resource Efficiency
Urban Health Equity
Regenerative Development
Integrative Process Research & Facilitation

23. IBE is based at Colorado State
University. We form interdisciplinary
teams of faculty and students, and
off-campus professionals to take
research to practice.

25. What conditions impact urban
health equity?
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
• Affordable housing
• Access to preventative health services
• Access to fresh produce and healthy food options
• Available network of community-based service
providers, coalitions, and advocates
• Built environment conditions and design

26. • Ground Rules
• Even Participation
• FUN
• Safety
• Trust
• Divergent Thinking
IDEAL NETWORK TRAINED FACILITATORS

27. Who is the Champion?
The owner and/or the developer
must champion integrative process
for it to work.
Organizational/political will is
necessary to enable integrated
results.
Developer

28. DC Microgrids Sewage heat recoveryGreywater Uses

29. The process of
cultivating the
capacity and
capability in
people,
communities &
other natural
systems to renew,
sustain & thrive.

30. Hub for Long-term Research Projects
Data & Monitoring Hub
Best Practices Repository
Planning and Design Translational Services

31. College of
Architecture
And
Planning

32. • Research on interventions
• Grad student RA pool
• Facilities, infrastructure
• Relationships with agencies
• Center for Sustainable Urbanism
• CHF Sun Valley Studio Project

33. • Plan & design development: Arch/ LA/ Planning
• Engagement and outreach practices
• Visualization

34. • Database for W. Denver
• Documentation & metadata
• Mapping
• GIS/ statistical analysis
Trend of building area (vertical axis), distance from center (horizontal axis), average
patch area radius of circles), and temperature (color)

35. • BMP database
• Sustainable Development Code Framework
• Design and Implementation Guide for Healthy
Communities (under development)

36. 1. What is the research agenda for EcoDistricts
and Urban Regeneration?
2. How do we build a national research network?
3. What are the next steps?

37. • Integrated Research Center
• What is keeping you from acting?