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Selected videos from all years (use above links to see all of the videos)
	The Impact of Smart Growth on Minorities Representative Joe Neal	Evaluation of Rail Transit Projects Tom Rubin (31:15)
	New Urbanism and Crime Stephen Town, West Yorkshire Police Dept	Why Growth-Management Planning Doesn't Work Ron Utt, Owen McShane (56:39)
	Solving Urban Congestion Alan Pisarski (author of Commuting in America) Gives an in depth presentation on travel habits, characteristics and congestion.	The War on the Dream Wendell Cox describes how city planning is destroying the American Dream, especially housing affordability
	How traffic Calming Kills How traffic calming actually kills many times as may people by slowing emergency responses as are potentially saved by slowing traffic.	Redevelopment Reform Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby explains how redevelopment takes money from basic government services and harms people.
	Alan Pisarski: Credibility; Vision; Plan; Finance Alan Pisarski describes history of the interstate highway system, financing, politics and the future.	Let’s Build James Heartfield describes how most land is off limits to building in England, leading to high housing costs. USA is following a similar path.
	The Planning Penalty - How Smart Growth Makes Housing Unaffordable Randal O’Toole describes how city planners are making housing unaffordable in many areas of the country, including California’s draconian LAFCOs, CEQA and appeals process	Speed Humps in Albuquerque Michael Cunneen tells how Albuquerque New Mexico decided to remove speed humps because they save fewer lives through accident reduction than they lose due to slower emergency response.
	Growth around the World Wendell Cox presents some results from his on-going studies of urban growth trends around the world, including links between transportation and prosperity, housing ownership & affluence, affluence & density and planning’s damage to prosperity.	Car Ownership & Jobs Jim Dale Helps low income people get better jobs and improve their standard of living by helping then achieve car ownership
	Tax Increment Financing Don Racheter (President of Public Interest Institute, Iowa)	How to Make Housing Expensive: The British Way Mark Pennington looks at the current British housing prices and underlying factors, how land use regulations has affected them and what lessons can we learn.
	THE CITY: A GLOBAL HISTORY Joel Kotkin, speaker and futurist, author of THE CITY: A GLOBAL HISTORY	The Road More Traveled Sam Staley talks about sustainable development and its practical problems. Mentions problems with horses before the auto, more people were killed by horses then than by cars today (per capita)
		Who is Funding Smart Growth James Dellinger (research analyst at the Capital Research Center)