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The AIA Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC) along with the Center for Communities by Design, Committee on the Environment, Housing and Residential Architecture Committee, Young Architects Forum, and AIA Seattle are joining together September 14–17, 2006, to organize a conference titled Livable Communities: Connecting Urban and Environmental Issues with Design Opportunities. The conference will be held at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront/Bell Harbor Conference Center.

The Livable Communities conference will engage design professionals, public officials, and others in an exploration of the intersecting spheres of community and environment through design. The focus will be on creating sustainable places that connect opportunities related to walking, working, and water:

• Walking: discuss design at a human scale and issues related to the social equity aspects
  of sustainability
• Working: explore issues concerning a sound economic base, transportation, and workforce housing
• Water: connect the built environment to natural systems, including water, as well as waterfront opportunities

Using the past, present, and potential future of Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region as a point of departure, the conference will focus on issues of national concern as well as the way those issues are experienced in the host community. The conference will also focus on issues ranging from regional to community to neighborhood scales.

Enjoy Seattle, a crossroads of culture, architecture, ideas and places. It's a city that includes the new Central Library designed by Rem Koolhaas, the internationally recognized Space Needle, Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project, Robert Venturi's Seattle Art Museum, and the Washington Mutual Tower. Seattle is defined by water. To the west lies Puget Sound; to the east, in the middle, is Lake Union. Everywhere, the focus is water, from its heritage to its future.

To discuss sponsorship opportunities and availability, please contact Doug Paul, director of professional practice at the AIA, dpaul@aia.org or 202-626-7386.

Collaboration Sponsor
$10,000

• Acknowledgment that the conference was produced “in collaboration with . . . ” on the conference Web page, in the materials advertising the conference, in the on-site conference brochure distributed to all conference attendees, and from the conference chair/moderator at the beginning of a conference plenary session; printed materials will include logo
• One registration bag insert
• One full-page, black-and-white ad in the on-site conference program
• Three complimentary full conference registrations
  

Conference Sponsor
$7,500

• Acknowledgment as a Conference Sponsor in the on-site conference brochure and by the conference chair/moderator at the beginning of a conference plenary session; printed materials will include logo
• One registration bag insert
• One half-page, black-and-white ad in the on-site conference program
• Two complimentary full conference registrations
  

Conference Cosponsor
$5,000

• Acknowledgment as a Conference Cosponsor of a morning or afternoon break in the on-site conference brochure and by the conference chair/moderator during the break
• One quarter-page, black-and-white ad in the on-site conference program
• One complimentary full conference registration
  

Keynote Sponsor
$3,500

• Acknowledgment as a Keynote Sponsor in the on-site conference brochure and by the conference chair/moderator during the keynote.
• One complimentary full conference registration
  

Conference Supporter
$2,500

• Acknowledgment as a Conference Supporter of a morning or afternoon break in the on-site conference brochure and by the conference chair/moderator during the break