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Agenda + Speakers
Thursday, February 14 3:00–5:00 Tour of ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus + Downtown Phoenix 5:00 – 7:00 Welcome reception @ AIA Central Arizona Headquarters
Friday, February 15 8:00–8:45 Registration + continental breakfast 8:45–9:00 Welcome to PURL/Overview of conference themes + agenda Nancy Levinson + Rosalind Greenstein + Katie Lincoln Welcome to Phoenix 9:00–10:30 New American University/New American City Michael Crow, president, Arizona State University Case Study: ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus Creating a downtown campus: ASU as urban catalyst Wellington Reiter, dean, ASU College of Design Commitment to community: ASU and Downtown Debra Friedman, dean, ASU College of Public Programs 10:30–10:45 Break 10:45–12:30 Place: campus design, city design Penn + University City Reconnecting to West Philadelphia Omar Blaik, CEO, U3 Ventures; former vice president, Facilities and Real Estate, University of Pennsylvania Expanding Eastward: Penn and the Schuylkill Riverfront Dennis Pieprz, president, Sasaki Associates Georgia Tech + Midtown Atlanta Creating Technology Square Scott Levitan, vice president, Forest City; former executive director, Real Estate Development, Georgia Institute of Technology Tech Square: the city’s perspective Michael Dobbins, professor of urban planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, former planning commissioner, Atlanta Response/Q + A Moderator: Ellen Dunham –Jones, director, Department of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology; author of Retrofitting Suburbia 12:30–1:30 Lunch featuring Evan Dobelle, president, Westfield State College; former president, Trinity College, Hartford; former mayor, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 1:30–4:45 Policy and Program: academic cultures, civic visions The marriage of design and social responsibility: art school as NGO Richard Koshalek, president, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena Intergovernmental Agreements: Portland and Portland State Lindsay Desrochers, vice president, Finance and Administration, Portland State University Fort Worth, Texas Christian University, and Tarrant County College: Educational Institutions as Agents of Central City Revitalization Fernando Costa, director, City Planning Department, Forth Worth Chicago: City conditions, campus decisions Henry S. Webber, vice president, Community Affairs and Real Estate, University of Chicago Boston: Strengthening Bonds with IHEs Linda Kowalcky, Liaison to Higher Education, Boston Redevelopment Authority Institution, City, Community: changing partnership dynamics Dale Allen, Director of Institutional Strategy, The Cecil Group, Boston 4:45–6:00 Response/ Q + A: Moderator: Gary Hack, dean, Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, February 16 8:30 – 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 – 11:00 City + University: What’s Next, What’s Needed University Urbanism Margaret Crawford, professor of urban design and planning theory, Harvard Graduate School of Design; author, Everyday Urbanism Integrated actions: “partnership is more than a program, it’s an attitude” Fern Tiger, professor, ASU College of Public Programs; principal, Fern Tiger Associates, Oakland; author, A Social Emdeddedness Plan for ASU Questioning assumptions: the future of the place-based university Rebecca Barnes, director, Strategic Growth, Brown University; former chief planner, Boston Redevelopment Authority Changing the research paradigm: from applied to engaged David Perry, director, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago; co- editor, University as Urban Developer Partnerships for Civic and Urban Revitalization Wim Wiewel, provost, University of Baltimore; co-editor, Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaborations for Better Public Spaces 11:00–11:15 Break 11:15–1:00 Panel/Q + A: Summaries of conference themes and topics, including key challenges for research and practice moderated by Rosalind Greenstein Panelists include: - Alicia Berg, vice president, Campus Environment, Columbia College, Chicago, former planning commissioner, Chicago - Eugenie Birch, director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, professor of city planning, University of Pennsylvania - Steven G. Cecil, urban designer/planner, principle of The Cecil Group, Boston - Rob Melnick, director, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, ASU - Darren Petrucci, director, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, ASU College of Design - Victor Rubin, vice president for research, PolicyLink, Oakland
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