4th International
Making Cities Livable Conference
Dock Street Theater
Charleston, South Carolina
March 8 - 12, 1988
Plenary and Panel Sessions
Concurrent Themes: The Good City / Public Spaces for Social Life / Reviving the Heart of the City / Low Income Housing
The Good City
- The Just City: Social Policy and Values
Public Spaces for Social Life
- Social Life in Public
- Contexts for Urban Social Life
- Streetscape and Urban Space Design Guidelines
- Public Space Use and Design
- Transportation and the Pedestrian
- The Heart of the City
- Privatization of Public Space Issues
- Towards Corporate Control of the Public Realm
- Placemaking in Non-Urban Realms
- Streetscape and the Arts
- Criteria for Public Art
- Public Sculpture: The Vietnam Memorial
- The Work of Bonifatius Stirnberg
- The Work of The Arts Council, UK
- Urban Spaces: Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Nicosia, Gibraltar, Lisbon
- The Skywalk Assessed
- Nature in the City
Reviving the Heart of a City
- Portland’s Central City Plan
- Creating History: Consistent Planning in Coral Gables
- Preserving an Historic Setting: Expanding Old Town Key West
- Redeveloping Downtown as the Economic & Cultural Center
- Urban Historic Centers Renewal
- The Preservation of Social Landmarks
- City Churches as an Urban Resource
- Reviving the Heart of a City Divided by Political Violence
- Urban Rehabilitation Without Urban Renewal
- Charleston Workshop: King Street Revitalization
Neighborhood Revitalization
- The Role of Urban Space as the Basis for Neighborhood Revitalization
- Neighborhood Livability, a City’s Response
Innovative Approaches to Low Income Housing
- Generating Low Income Housing
- Maintaining Inner City Population and Housing the Elderly
- Study of Byker Housing, Newcastle
City Case Studies
- Germany - Nürnberg, Freiburg, Erlangen
- City Case Studies (USA): Portland, Coral Gables, Key West, Fort Collins, Charleston, Cambridge, MA
- European case studies: Salzburg, Paris and Venice
Architecture and the Livable City
- Human Scale Architecture
- Town Architecture
- Urban Architecture
- Architectural Design Concepts
Urban Design Guidelines
- New Models of Development
- The Economics of Urban Form
- The Value Implications of the Contemporary Urban Form
- Alternate Settlement Patterns
Community Participation Issues
- Models of Community Participation
- Vision 2000: Strategic Planning for Anaheim
- Community Participation in Cross-Cultural Settings
Enlivening the City
- Role of Markets
- The Market as a Catalyst
- Festivals: Creating an Urban Tradition
Conservation/Restoration
- Defining Design Criteria for Urban Conservation
Balancing Resident and Tourist Needs
- Strategies for the Improvement of San Francisco’s Waterfront
Northern Cities
- The Design & Planning of New Towns in the Arctic & Subarctic
- Juneau. Alaska
- The WHO Healthy Cities Project.
Speakers
- Joseph Baker, Professor of Architecture, Laval University, Quebec, CANADA
- Jonathan Barnett, Professor of City Planning, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, USA
- Cristina Barrios-Cader, Associate Professor, School of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Georgia Bizios, Associate Professor, School of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- John Byrne, Deleware Public Administration Institute, College of Urban Affairs & Public Policy, University of Deleware, Newark, DE, USA
- Judith M. Capen AIA, Assistant Prof., Dept. of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC, USA
- Paul Walker Clarke, Washington-Alexandria Center, Virginia Polytechnic & State University, Alexandria, VA, USA
- Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.), Director, Center for Urban Well-Being, New York, NY, USA. Conference Organizer
- Theo David AIA, Professor & Chairman, Graduate Architecture Department, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Derek Drummond, Professor of Architecture, McGill Univ., Montreal, CANADA
- Donna W. Dunay, College of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA
- J. Larry Durrence, City Commissioner, Lakeland, FL, USA
- Wolfdietrich Elbert, Director, European Center for Training Craftsmen in the Restoration of the Architectural Heritage, Venice, ITALY
- Leonel Fadigas, Vice President, Portugese Committee for UNESCO Man & Biosphere Program, Lisbon Technical University, PORTUGAL.
- Ben Farmer, Head, Department of Architecture, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, ENGLAND, UK
- Andreas Feldtkeller, Director of Planning & Restoration for the Old City, Tübingen, GERMANY
- Ronald Lee Fleming, President, The Townscape Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Jean Marie Gath, Principal, The SWA Group, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
- Jan Gehl, Senior Lecturer of Urban Design, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DENMARK
- Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Sociology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
- Paul H. Gleye, Associate Professor of Architecture, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, USA
- Frank Groznik AICP, Director, Public Planning, EDAW Inc., Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Rod Hackney, President, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, ENGLAND, UK
- The Honorable Dietmar Hahlweg, Mayor of Erlangen, WEST GERMANY
- Trevor Hancock, WHO, Ontario, CANADA
- Michael S. Harrison AICP, Chief Planner, City of Portland, OR, USA
- Amin B. Hassam, Senior Manager, Office of Government Services, Price Waterhouse, Washington DC, USA
- Jim Hassinger, Executive Director, Chattanooga Venture, Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Barry Jackson, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, ENGLAND, UK
- Don Robert Johnson, Senior Leader of the Ethical Culture Society, New York, NY, USA
- Jaques Kaswan, President, Urban Alternatives, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Charles Knevitt, Architecture Correspondent, The Times; Director, Inner City Trust, London, ENGLAND, UK
- Jonas Lehrman, Associate Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CANADA
- Henry L. Lennard, Ph.D., Center for Urban Well-Being, New York, NY. Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry, Univ. of Calif., San Francisco, CA, USA. Conference Organizer
- Gianni Longo, President, Urban Initiatives, New York, NY, USA
- Joseph F. Mangiamele AICP, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Design, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA
- John M. McGuire, Jr.,AIA, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Drury College, Springfield, MO, USA
- Rolf Monheim, Professor of Urban Geography, Bayreuth University, WEST GERMANY
- Peter Novak, Ph.D., M.D., Dean, Dept. of Theoretical Medicine, University of Ulm, WEST GERMANY
- Tom Peterson AICP, Director of Planning, City of Fort Collins, Co, USA
- Rosaria Piomelli, Professor of Architecture, College of the City of New York, NY, USA
- G. Douglas Purdy, Deputy Director of Social Planning, City of Vancouver, BC, CANADA
- Patrick Quinn, Professor of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
- The Honorable Joseph P. Riley, Mayor of Charleston, SC, USA; former President US Conference of Mayors
- Edoardo Salzano, formerly Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Venice, Professor, Univ. of Venice, ITALY
- Ernest R. Scoffham, Professor of Architecture, The Univ. of Nottingham, ENGLAND, UK
- James W. Shields AIA, Dept. of Architecture, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Mark Sissman, President, Enterprise Social Investment Corp., Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, MD, USA
- Janet Marie Smith, President, Pershing Square Management Assoc., Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Bonifatius Stirnberg, Sculptor, Aachen, WEST GERMANY
- Anselm Strauss, Professor of Sociology, Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Edward Sylvester, Staff Director, House Committee on DC, US Congress, Washington, DC, USA
- Benjamin Thompson, Architect, Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Jane Thompson, Conceptual Designer, Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Hartmut Topp, Professor of Transportation Planning, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, WEST GERMANY
- John Turner, Architect, Habitat, London, ENGLAND, UK
- Wallace van Zyl, Prof. & Head, Dept. of Regional Planning, The Univ. of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
- Johannes Voggenhuber, City Councillor, Mayor for the Old City, Salzburg, AUSTRIA
- Wolf Von Eckardt, Art and Architecture Critic, Washington, DC, USA.
- William H. Whyte, author, American Conservation Association, New York, NY, USA
- Bruce Yoell RIBA, Professor, School of Architecture and Building Technology, Univ. of Bath, ENGLAND, UK.
Special Events
- Reception - Gibbes Art Gallery
- Harbor Cruise Buffet
- Receptions at the Edmonston-Alston House, Roper House, and Nathaniel Russell House.