This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, a collaborative enterprise that brings researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders together each fall to discuss and debate the transportation – land use – environment connection. This year’s symposium will be held October 17-19, 2010, around the theme, “Infrastructure Investment for Sustainable Growth.”
The symposium series was founded with the goal of creating an invitation-only retreat where land use, transportation, and environmental scholars and activists can present their ideas to and interact closely with policy makers, senior practitioners, and private sector representatives.
This fall, speakers will address the management of various transportation and land use infrastructure systems, with particular attention to the debates in the areas of energy, green technologies, and how we consume resources. Attendees will explore the challenges to and opportunities for infrastructure investment, with a focus on how best to evaluate, pay for, and manage infrastructure projects in the face of fiscal and political challenges.
From the perspectives of research, policy, and practice, speakers will address the social, environmental and economic arguments for paths to sustainable growth. In the face of a persistent economic downturn, a deepening public finance crisis, waxing concern with climate change, and chronic geo-political instability, the challenges to linking transportation, land use, and the environment have never been greater.
The symposium is co-sponsored and organized by UCLA Lewis Center and the Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA School of Public Affairs, and UCLA Extension Public Policy Program.