ed mcmahon

Keynote:
“The Dollars and Sense of Sustainable Development”

MP3 Audio Recording of Keynote

MP3 Audio Recording of Q&A

Bio: Ed McMahon is a nationally renowned authority on sustainable development, land conservation and urban design is currently ULI/Charles Fraser Senior Resident Fellow for Sustainable Development at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC. McMahon is formerly the vice president and director of land use programs at The Conservation Fund.

Quoted recently at a ULI-sponsored forum, McMahon described the need to preserve green infrastructure: “Smart conservation is just as important as smart growth. Smart conservation is proactive, large-scale and coordinated. We need to think of open space as a form of infrastructure just as we think of roads as infrastructure. It must be viewed as a necessity, not an amenity; and it must be preserved as a connected, contiguous system.”

Author of Land Conservation Finance and Better Models for Commercial Development, and currently helping to head up the ULI redevelopment response in New Orleans, McMahon will emphasize opportunities and strategies for new and better relationships between development and environment.