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GOVERNING presents Summit on Livable Communities

Discussion sponsored by AARP and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh

    PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pittsburgh's rapidly

aging population and its industrial history make it a perfect location to kick off the GOVERNING Summit Series on Livable Communities, a year-long examination of the challenges and opportunities communities are facing as their residents age. The summit series is sponsored by AARP.

The GOVERNING Summit on Livable Communities will be hosted by the

University of Pittsburgh, and will feature an executive roundtable

discussion on: the characteristics of a "livable community," how Pittsburgh has made the transition from "industrial city of steel" to a

post-industrial livable community, the effects that an aging population has

had on Pittsburgh, and the lessons other cities can learn from that

experience.

Presented by GOVERNING, sponsored by AARP and hosted by the

            University of Pittsburgh. Speakers include:

            -- Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell

            -- Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl

            -- Pittsburgh City Council President Doug Shields

            -- Chancellor, the University of Pittsburgh, Mark A.

               Nordenberg,

            -- Pennsylvania State Director, AARP, Dick Chevrefils

            -- Group Executive Officer for Social Impact, AARP,

               Nancy LeaMond

       About GOVERNING

GOVERNING is a monthly magazine whose primary audience is state and local government officials: the governors, mayors, legislators, council members, program directors, agency heads, policy advisors and other officials spanning the entire range of responsibility for state and local government.

They are the men and women who set policy for and manage the day-to-day operations of cities, counties and states, as well as such governmental bodies as school boards and special districts. GOVERNING's circulation has grown to more than 85,000 state, city and county leaders across the nation. The magazine recently was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in the Public Interest, the highest honor in

the industry.