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Preserving the American Dream Conference DVDs

We have DVDs available from the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Preserving the American Dream conferences. Most of the DVDs are two hours long and are available for $5 each plus shipping (which is generally no more than $1 per DVD for shipping in the U.S.). Below is a complete list of DVDs that are currently available.

PowerPoint shows are available for many of the presentations. For a list of 2007 PowerPoint shows, go to the conference page. For PowerPoint shows from previous conferences, review the references & experts sections in the Guide to the American Dream.

To order DVDs, go to the ADC order form and list the year and DVD or session numbers of the DVDs you want in the comments section or send an email to ADC with a list of the DVDs you want along with your name and address and whether you prefer to pay by PayPal or be invoiced.

2008 Conference
The 2008 conference is available on thirteen DVDs, numbered K (for keynote speeches), 1, 2, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4a, and 4b. For titles of each of the presentations, see the complete conference agenda.
- Keynotes by Representative John Culberson, outgoing ADC director Randal O'Toole, and incoming ADC director Ed Braddy.
- 1. Roundtable discussion about Houston's future featuring Houston city councillor Peter Brown, Kendall Miller, David Crossley, and Paul Magaziner.
- 2. Transportation Issues featuring Bill King, Pierre Kopp, Mark Payton, Alan Pisarski, and Samual Staley. This DVD is highly recommended.
- 2a. Light Rail and Its Alternatives featuring Alfredo Santos, Ted Richardson, and Tom Rubin.
- 2b. Environmental Issues featuring Paul Chesser, Randal O'Toole, and Samual Staley.
- 2c. Federal Transport Funding featuring Greg Cohen, Jerry Taylor, and Shirley Ybarra. Unfortunately, due to a technical problem, disk 2c is not yet available. We hope to have it available soon.
- 2d. Alternatives to Smart Growth featuring Owen McShane, Jim Longbottom, and Don Racheter.
- 3. Land-Use Issues featuring Lolita Buckner Inniss, Mai Nguyen, Wendell Cox, Robert Nelson, and Michael Shires. This DVD is very highly recommended.
- 3a. Land-Use Regulation featuring Jerry Tipps, Nancy Wilcox, and Charles Savino.
- 3b. Property Rights featuring Bill Peacock, Jessica Corry, and Jeremy Hopkins.
- 3c. Houston's Master-Planned Communities featuring Ted Nelson, Peter Barnhart, and Doug Goff.
- 4a. Winning the War of Words featuring Steven Greenhut, Michael Sullivan, Timothy Sandefur, Daphne Scarbrough, and Tom Bazan.
- 4b. New Ideas featuring Hugh Pavlitich, Peggy Venable, Daniel Rothschild, and Eileen Norcross.

2007 Conference
The 2007 conference is available on twelve separate DVDs, numbered K (for keynote speeches), 1, 2, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 4a, and 4b.
- Keynote speeches by Joel Kotkin and Joseph Perkins
  This disk is highly recommended
- Session 1: Planning in San Jose with Randal O'Toole and Thomas Rubin
- Session 2: Recovering from Congestion with Gabriel Roth, Sam Staley, Alan Pisarski, and Malcolm Heymer
  This disk is highly recommended
- Session 2a: Funding Infrastructure with Fred Foldvary, Adrian Moore, Alan Pisarski, and Ronald Utt
- Session 2b: Advocating Mobility with Michael Cunneen, Jim Dale, John Forester, and Aarne Frobom
- Session 2c: Federal Transportation Reauthorization with Gabriel Roth, Tom Rubin, Joel Schwartz, and Sam Staley
- Session 3: Recovering from Land-Use Planning with Chris Norby, Mark Pennington, Edward Stringham, and William Bogart
  This disk is highly recommended
- Session 3a: Sustainable Development with Sam Staley, Peter Gordon, Skaidra Smith-Heister, and Owen McShane
- Session 3b: Protecting Property Rights with Leonard Gilroy, Mark Pennington, James Dellinger, and Wendell Cox
  This disk is highly recommended
- Session 3c: TIFs, TODs, and Redevelopment with John Charles, Loraine Wallace Rowe, and Don Racheter
- Session 4a: Recovering from Smart Growth with Loraine Wallace Rowe, Jon Coupal, Wendell Cox, and James Heartfield
  This disk is highly recommended
- Session 4b: Promoting Free-Market Reforms with Emory Bundy, Jim MacIsaac, Doug Simpson, Randy Simmons, and ArLyne Diamond
2006 Conference
The 2006 conference is available on five DVDs, numbered K (for keynote speeches), 2, 3, 4a, and 4b. Sessions 1, 2a through 2d, and 3a through 3d are not yet available.
- Keynote speeches
  - The Politics of the American Dream by U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson
  - The Politics of Mobility by James Dunn, Rutgers University
  - The Politics of Sprawl by Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois (Chicago)
- Session 1
- Session 2 - Restoring America's Mobility
  - Traffic Calming and Emergency Services by Leslie Bunte, Texas A&M Emergency Services Institute
  - The Reason Foundation Mobility Project by Robert Poole, Reason Foundation
  - Transport Issues in Britain By Roer Lawson, Bromley Roads Action Group
  - Cost-Effective Transit by Robert Behnke
- Session 2a
- Session 2b
- Session 2c
- Session 2d
- Session 3: Deregulating Land-Use
  - Deregulating Downtowns by Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register
  - Deregulating Housing by Wendell Cox
  - Housing Regulation by Bryce Adam Ward, Harvard University
  - Inclusionary Zoning by Edward Stringham, San Jose State University
    This disk is highly recommended
- Session 3a
- Session 3b
- Session 3c
- Session 3d
- Session 4a: Campaigning for the American Dream
  - Campaigning for Property Rights by John Tillman, Americans for Limited Government
  - Campaigning for Mobility by Adrian Moore, Reason Foundation
  - Campaigning Against Wasteful Rail Transit by Jon Caldara, Independence Institute
  - Where Smart Growth Gets Its Money by James Dellinger, Capital Research Center
- Session 4b
2005 Conference
The 2005 conference is available on eleven DVDs, numbered 1 through 11.
1. Land-Use Planning:
  - Designing Out Crime by Stephen Town, West Yorkshire Police
  - Smart Growth and Housing Affordability by Wendell Cox
  - Market-Oriented Planning by Sam Staley, Reason Foundation
    This disk is highly recommended
2. Land-Use Planning:
  - New Urbanism & Crime by Stephen Town, West Yorkshire Police
  - The New Road to Serfdom by Owen McShane, New Zealand Centre for Resource Management Studies
  - Housing Affordability in Minnesota, by Michael Noonan, Toll Brothers
  - Planning Has Made Australian Housing Unaffordable by Bob Day, Home Australia
  - Redevelopment in Minneapolis by Dan Hunt, Hunt Associates
3. Urban Redevelopment 1
  - Eminent Domain by Lee McGrath, Institute for Justice
  - Redevelopment in California by Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register
  - Tax-Increment Financing by David Swenson, Iowa State University
4. Urban Redevelopment 2
  - The Kelo Decision by Lee McGrath, Institute for Justice
  - The Kelo Decision by Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register
  - Oregon's Measure 37 by Dave Hunnicutt, Oregonians in Action
    This disk is highly recommended
5. Transportation 1
  - Reforming Transit in Europe by Francesco Ramella
  - Automobiles and the American Dream by John Charles, Cascade Policy Institute
  - Transit vs. Telecommuting by Ted Balaker, Reason Foundation
  - Traffic Calming by Kathleen Calongne, Center for the American Dream
  - Decoupling Pollution from Federal Transportation Funding by Joel Schwartz, American Enterprise Institute
6. Transportation 2
  - One-way vs. Two-Way Streets by Michael Cunneen
  - The Declining Transportation-Pollution Connection by Joel Schwartz, American Enterprise Institute
  - The Politics of Gridlock by Robert Atkinson, Progressive Policy Institute
  - Congestion and Urban Growth by Sam Staley, Reason Foundation
  - Tollroads in the U.S. by Peter Samuel, Tollroads News
  - Public-Private Partnerships by Ron Utt, Heritage Foundation
7. Critiquing Rail Transit
  - Rail to Dulles Airport by Chris Walker
  - Twin Cities Light Rail by Lisa Lee
  - Getting and Using Transit Data by John Semmens, Laissez Faire Institute
  - Rail Transit by Thomas Rubin
8. Opening Session: Is Government Planning Necessary?
  - Peter Bell, Twin Cities Metropolitan Council
  - Robert Dunphy, Urban Land Institute
  - Ron Utt, Heritage Foundation
  - Representative Mary Liz Holberg, Minnesota Legislature
9. Influencing Metropolitan Government 1
  - Representative Phil Krinkie, Minnesota Legislature
  - Stephan Louis, Cincinnati MPO
  - John Paul DeGance, Leadership Institute
  - Katherine Haney
10. Influencing Metropolitan Government 2
  - Blaire Tremere, Twin Cities Metropolitan Council
  - Stephan Louis, Cincinnati MPO
  - John Paul DeGance, Leadership Institute
  - Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register
  - Mark Nix, South Carolina Landowners Association
  - David Strom, Taxpayers League of Minnesota
11. Influencing Metropolitan Government 3
  - Ken Reid on working with the media
  - Robert Atkinson on creating a political movement for mobility
  - Tom Rubin on successful and unsuccessful campaigns against wasteful rail transit

2004 Conference
1. Selected Presentations:
  - Smart Growth & Crime by Stephen Town, West Yorkshire Police
  - World Urban Trends by Wendell Cox, publicpurpose.org
  - Evaluating Transit Projects by Thomas Rubin
    This disk is highly recommended (but these presentations are also on other disks in the series)
2. Keynote: Protecting Property Rights in South Carolina by Kay McClanahan
3. Value-Based Communications by Sam Kazman, Competitive Enterprise Institute
4. Improving Lobbying Skills with John Charles, Owen McShane, and Larry Baldock
5. Why Growth-Management Planning Doesn't Work
  - Ron Utt, Heritage Foundation
  - Owen McShane, New Zealand Centre for Resource Management Studies
  - Eric Montague, Washington Policy Center
6. Defending the American Dream
  - The Social Dynamics of Smart Growth by John Finley Scott
  - The Political Dynamics of Smart Growth by David Strom, Taxpayers League of Minnesota
  - Recent Commuting Trends by Alan Pisarski
  - Building a Transportation Coalition by Eric Slotboom
7. Alternative Visions of Urban Livability
  - U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer
  - John Charles, Cascade Policy Institute
  - Andy Kerr, Alternatives to Growth Oregon
8. Defining the American Dream
  - Inclusionary Zoning by Adrian Moore, Reason Foundation
  - Great Rail Disasters by Randal O'Toole, Thoreau Institute
  - Evaluating Rail Transit Projects by Tom Rubin
  - Urban Trends Around the World by Wendell Cox
9. What's Wrong with Smart Growth
  - Why I Opposed Light Rail by Kansas City Councilwoman Saundra McFadden-Weaver
  - New Urbanism and Crime by Stephen Town, West Yorkshire Police
  This disk is highly recommended

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