Twin Cities Urban Sustainability Forum

双城城市可持续发展论坛(TCU论坛)将包括一个为期两天的主要研讨会，随后将在一年多的时间里举办一系列后续讲习班。主要研讨会将包括地方、国家和国际发言者的混合，重点围绕五个横向主题：(1)组织城市可持续发展的翻译研究框架；(2)为长期可持续性的跨学科方法调整治理；(3)技术的使用；(4)来自多个部门的学者和实践者之间的合作形式；以及(5)将城市生态系统研究和城市可持续发展实践纳入翻译研究框架。演讲者和参与者(总计120-160人)将来自不同领域的学者和从业者，包括但不限于城市规划、景观建筑、生态、工程和水资源。后续讲习班将探讨这些主题，以进一步阐明翻译研究的框架，同时将框架付诸实践。还将研究讲习班进程本身，以获得制定翻译研究框架的见解。评价将包括对讲习班参与者的事前和事后调查、关键访谈、讲习班笔记的内容分析和与会者观察，以对讲习班成果进行严格分析，以便出版。拟议的TCU论坛和制定翻译研究进程的后续活动将对促进实现可持续城市的目标具有重大实际意义。除了开发翻译研究框架以供出版的学术价值外，TCU论坛，包括后续讲习班，本身将是一项重要的外联活动，对双城区域以及可能的其他城市区域的可持续性努力具有相当大的潜在好处。TCU论坛的成果将与美国国家科学院区域城市可持续发展系列相结合。研究结果将在一个或多个国家会议上发表，并将被纳入城市生态系统棕袋研讨会和关于可持续城市生活的新生研讨会。

The Twin Cities Urban Sustainability Forum (TCUS Forum) will include a main two-day symposium to be followed by a series of follow-on workshops that would occur over one year. The main symposium would include a mix of local, national, and international speakers, focused around five cross-cutting themes: (1) organization of a translational research framework for urban sustainability; (2) adaptation of governance for cross-disciplinary approaches to long-term sustainability; (3) use of technology; (4) forms of collaboration among academics and practitioners from multiple sectors; and (5) integration of urban ecosystems research and urban sustainability practice into a translational research framework. Both speakers and participants (120-160 total) will be a mix of academics and practitioners from diverse fields, including but not limited to urban planning, landscape architecture, ecology, engineering, and water resources. The follow-on workshops will explore these themes to further articulate a framework for translational research, while at the same time turning the framework into practice. The workshop process itself will also be studied to gain insights to develop the translational research framework. Evaluation will include pre- and post-surveys of workshop participants, key interviews, content analysis of workshop notes, and participant observation to conduct a rigorous analysis of the workshop outcomes for publication. The proposed TCUS Forum and follow-on activities to develop a translational research process would have major practical significance in facilitating the goal of attaining sustainable cities. In addition to the intellectual merit of developing a translational research framework for publication, the TCUS Forum, including follow-on workshops, would be would itself be a major outreach activity, with considerable potential benefit to sustainability efforts in the Twin Cities region and potentially other urban regions as well. Findings from the TCUS Forum will be integrated with the National Academy of Sciences regional urban sustainability series. Findings will be presented at one or more national conferences and will be incorporated into an Urban Ecosystems Brown Bag Seminar and a Freshman Seminar on sustainable urban living.Bruce Hamilton10/16/10