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Invited Speakers

Maxim Atayants. Architect, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA. *Designing New 10-Minute Neighborhoods in Russia*
Mayor Jim Brainard, Carmel, IN. Member of President Obama's Climate Task Force. *Climate Change and Urban Design*
Mayor Ada Colau, Barcelona, SPAIN. *Achieving Healthy, Equitable Neighborhoods with the Superblock Program*
Mayor Manuela Carmena, City of Madrid, SPAIN. Former human rights lawyer and Supreme Court Judge. *Making Madrid more Healthy, Just, and Equitable*
Jan Gehl, Gehl Architects, Copenhagen, DENMARK. 2015 IMCL Lewis Mumford Awardee. Author: Cities for People; How to Study Public Life. Human Scale Urban Neighborhoods
Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH. Professor, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. *Healthy Neighborhoods*
Philip Langdon, Editor, New Urban News, freelance journalist. Author: Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All. *Within Walking Distance*
Ofer Manor, Chief Architect, Municipality of Jerusalem. Founding Director of the Jerusalem Urban Design Center. Loeb Fellow. *The design of Jerusalem’s Light Rail Corridor*
Ettore Maria Mazzola, Architect & Urbanist, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Rome, ITALY. Designing a Healthy Neighborhood
Jason F. McClennan, CEO, International Living Future Institute, designer, consultant, and environmentalist. Author, The Philosophy of Sustainable Design. Density and Sustainability – A Radical Perspective
Michelle Provoost, Director, International New Town Institute, Almere, THE NETHERLANDS. *Evaluation of global neoliberal city-making.*
Salvador Rueda, Office of Urban Ecology, Barcelona, SPAIN. *Neighborhood Traffic Calming: The Barcelona Superblocks*
Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Dr., Former Mayor of Freiburg, and Governor for the State of South Baden, Freiburg, GERMANY. *Freiburg’s Sustainable 10-Minute Neighborhoods, Rieselfeld and Vauban.*
Mayor Jim Watson, City of Ottawa. Welcome.

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