Conferences
Reinventing Older Communities:
How Does Place Matter?
March 26-28, 2008
Marriott Philadelphia Downtown Hotel
Conference Interview
Lessons from Europe
(MP3 file, 22.7 MB, 12:23; Music: Kevin MacLeod)
Former Mayor of Turin, Italy, and president, Organizing Committee, 2006 Turin Olympic Winter Games, Valentino Castellani, discusses his city's history, its crises and successful rebounds, and his hope for the future. Castellani related Turin's history and future to Philadelphia's during an interview recorded last month at the Philadelphia Fed's conference on Reinventing Older Communities: How Does Place Matter?
Keynote Conversations
Below you can listen to Dede Myers, vice president and community affairs officer, interviewing keynote speakers about their upcoming presentations at Reinventing Older Communities: How Does Place Matter?
Federal Reserve Response: Subprime Mortgage Crisis
(MP3 file, 18.4 MB, 10:04)
Dede Myers talks to keynote speaker Sandra Braunstein, director, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, about the regulations and guidance the Federal Reserve is proposing to address egregious practices in mortgage lending. Braunstein will give her presentation at 8:30 a.m., Friday, March 28.
Blueprint for American Prosperity
(MP3 file, 3.4 MB, 7:17)
Dede Myers talks to keynote speaker, Bruce Katz, vice president and director, Metropolitan Policy Program, the Brookings Institution, about his March 26 presentation at the conference in Philadelphia.
About Reinventing Older Communities
Reinventing Older Communities is a biennial conference that has become a major meeting ground for policymakers, community developers, lenders, funders, planners, and government representatives who want to learn from leading practitioners and researchers around the country.
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