5th Conference in Venice

5th International Conference on

MAKING CITIES LIVABLE

Ateneo Veneto
Venice, ITALY
June 4 - 8, 1989

I join the conference organizers in inviting you to participate in the 5th International Making Cities Livable Conference, to be held in Venice, July 4-8, 1989.

Architects, city planners, urban designers, public officials and others can draw much inspiration from Venice’s incomparable organization of community open spaces, its rich texture, pedestrian and public transportation network, quality of everyday social life, and abundance of cultural events and celebrations.

Venice is perhaps the most beautiful city in the world, and still one of its most livable. The reason Venice is so beautiful and so livable is because it was created wisely, and as a profound synthesis of three elements: nature, human work and thought, and social life. Destroy this synthesis and you will destroy Venice; take this synthesis as your model and you will make all cities of the world finer places to live and work.

Venice does not testify to the vision of any one individual or to the power of a single idea. It is a testament to the creative and decorative impulses of every person who ever lived there. It is most fitting that a conference concerned wth the livability of our cities, both historic and modern, should take place in Venice. I look forward to meeting you in Venice this July.

Antonio Casellati
Mayor, City of Venice

Plenary and Panel Sessions

Concurrent Themes: Making Cities Livable for Children / Restoring the City's Heart

Values for the Just City

Making Cities Livable for Children

• The Ideal City for Children

Restoring the City's Heart

• Rebuilding Mixed Use & Affordable Housing in Antwerp, Belgium
• Restoring Mixed Use & Public Places, Graz, Austria
• Restoration Issues in Vicenza
• Reestablishing the Town Center
• Mizner Park, Boca Raton
• City Center Regeneration Projects in Manchester & Bristol, UK
• Creating a Waterfront, Newark on Trent, UK
• Restoring the Heart of Bruges, Belgium
• Bath Revisited
• Making Belfast Livable
• The Livable City in a Mult-Cultural Community: Melbourne, Australia

Public Life & Urban Places

• Public Space Design
• The Street & the Square
• The City Square, Edinburgh
• Assault on the Street

Art in Public Places

• Public Art: the Necessity of Meaning
• Public Sculpture for Neighborhood Centers
• Community Festivals

Urban Design/Planning

• Village Model of Urban Development
• Housing in the 21st Century Village
• Design Guidelines
• Architecture: Theme & Variation
• The Architecture of Joy
• Estes Park Urban Design Plan
• Maintaining Identity: Bologna
• Preserving Historic & Visual Quality
• Integrating Planning Design, Programming & Fundraising

Community Participation

• Resident Involvement in Moderate Income Housing
• The Community Architecture Movement, UK
• Public Art: Letting the Neighbors Choose
• Models of Community Participation

Law & the City

• Implications of Legal Prescriptions on the City's Habitability
• Experiencing the City
• Urban Greening
• The Healthy City
• Healthy Toronto 2000

Speakers

• The Honorable Frank van Acker, Mayor, City of Bruges, BELGIUM.
• Gerd Albers, Dr. Ing., Professor Emeritus, Technische Universität, Munich, WEST GERMANY.
• David E. Bess, Ph.D., AICP, Professor, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, USA.
• Peter Breitling, Dr. tech., Dipl. Ing. University Professor of Architecture, Graz. AUSTRIA.
• Peter H. Brown, AIA, AICP. Principal, EDI Architecture /Planning, Houston, TX, USA.
• The Honorable Antonio Casellati, Avvocato, Mayor, City of Venice, ITALY.
• Pier Luigi Cervellati, Professor, Chief Planner, City of Bologna, ITALY.
• Francesco Chiozzi, Chief, Dept. of Public Buildings, City of Vicenza, ITALY.
• The Honorable Robert Cools, Mayor, City of Antwerp, BELGIUM.
• Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.), Director, Center for Urban Well-Being, Carmel, CA, USA. Conference Organizer.
• Derek Drummond, MacDonald Professor of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA.
• Donna W. Dunay, Associate Professor, College of Architecture & Urban Studies, Virginia Polytechnic & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
• Gary C. Dwyer, Professor, Landscape Architecture Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.
• Wolfdietrich Elbert, Director, European Center for Training Craftsmen in the Restoration of the Architectural Heritage, Venice, ITALY.
• Alessandro Falassi, Direttore della Scuola di Lingua e Cultura Italiana per Stranieri, Siena, ITALY.
• Andreas Feldtkeller, Director of Restoration and Planning for the Old City, Tübingen, GERMANY.
• Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education & Sociology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• Robert C. Greenstreet, RIBA, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Chair, Dept. of Architecture, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
• Frank Groznik, AICP, Director of Seattle Operations, EDAW Inc., Seattle, WA, USA.
• Richard Haeusser, Architect in Chief, Strasbourg Cathedral, Strasbourg, FRANCE.
• Rod Hackney, PRIBA, MA, Ph.D., Former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, ENGLAND, UK.
• John Hendry, Professor, Centre for Environmental Planning, Dept. of Architecture & Planning, The Queen’s University of Belfast, NORTHERN IRELAND.
• William Hull, AIA, President, Amphion Environmental Inc., Oakland, CA, USA.
• Don Robert Johnson, Senior Leader of the Ethical Culture Society, New York, NY, USA.
• Mitchell E. Kosny, Ph.D., Professor, School of Urban & Regional Planning, Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Toronto, CANADA.
• Jonas Lehrman, Professor, Associate Dean, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MT, CANADA.
• Henry L. Lennard, Ph.D., Center for Urban Well-Being, Carmel, CA, USA. Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, CA, USA. Conference Organizer.
• Gianni Longo, President, Urban Initiatives, New York, NY, USA.
• Jan D. Martin, Urban Designer, Town Planner, Loder & Bayly PTY Ltd., Victoria, AUSTRALIA.
• Thomas Martineau, AIA, Director, Institute for Building Sciences, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
• Victor A. Mirontschuk, AIA, President, EDI Architecture/Planning, Houston, TX, USA.
• Sibyl O. Mizzi, Ph.D., Vice President, Pan Tech Management Corp., Babylon, NY, USA.
• Carl V. Patton, Dean, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
• Cyril B. Paumier, Principal, Land Design Research Inc., Columbia, MD, USA.
• Patrick J. Quinn, FRAIA, Professor, Department of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.
• Edoardo Salzano, President, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, Professor, University of Venice, ITALY.
• J. Anthony Samenfink, Dean, School of Home Economics, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, USA.
• Ernest R. Scoffham, Dr., Department of Architecture & Planning, University of Nottingham, ENGLAND, UK.
• Benjamin Thompson, Architect, Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• Jane Thompson, Conceptual Designer, Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• Johannes Voggenhuber, former City Councilor, Mayor for the Old City of Salzburg, AUSTRIA.
• Bruce Yoell, RIBA, Architect, Bath, ENGLAND, UK.

Special Events

• Reception with Mayor Antonio Casellati, Ca' Farsetti (City Hall)
• Teatro a l'Avogaria - Commedia dell'Arte
• Tour of the European Centre for Training Craftsmen in the Conservation of the Architectural Heritage, Isola San Servolo