9th Conference in San Francisco

9th International Conference on

MAKING CITIES LIVABLE
& Exhibits:
Children in the City; Farmers Markets
 

Fairmont Hotel
San Francisco, California
February 26 - March 2, 1991

Plenary and Panel Sessions

  • The Good City

Healthy Cities

  • City Design and Social Pathology
  • The Child in the City
  • Making Cities Livable for the Aged
  • California Healthy Cities Project
  • New Forms in Health Care Environments
  • Economics of a Healthy City

The Homeless

  • Public Policy and Individual Response

International Perspectives

  • Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria; Antwerp, Belgium; New York, USA; Toronto, Canada; Krakow, Poland; Leningrad, Russia
  • Making Cities Livable in Russia

Urban Restoration

  • Tübingen, Germany, Nottingham, England, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Cities in Transition

  • East German Cities, Istanbul, Turkey, Hong Kong, China

Design of Public Places

  • Public Realm Design
  • Experiencing Urban Space
  • Walking in Philadelphia
  • Santa Barbara’s Renaissance
  • City Identity, Vitality and Community Participation

Arts and the City

  • Open Space & Public Art
  • An Emerging Chicano Public Art
  • Monumental Public Art
  • Living with the Arts in Scottsdale

Growth Management

  • Santa Barbara’s Growth Management
  • Development Controls for Townscape Conservation

Recreating the City Center

  • Public Buildings to Strengthen the City Center
  • Defining Downtown
  • Urban Identity
  • Appropriate Urban Architecture

Learning from San Francisco

  • Mission Bay Project, San Francisco
  • San Francisco’s Embarcadero Waterfront
  • S.F. Workshops: Chinatown, Mixed Use/Mixed Income Housing, Mid-Market Street, Presidio - Adaptive Re-Use, Yerba Buena Cultural Center Development

Resident/Tenant Participation in Housing

  • Urban Collective Housing
  • Co-Housing
  • The Swedish Model of Tenant Involvement
  • Innovative Affordable Housing
  • Tourism and the Livable City
  • Teaching Models
  • New Models of Urban Development Urbanizing Suburbia
  • Urban Design Theory
  • Main Street, the Shopping Center and the Mall
  • Play and Festivity
  • Recreation of Urban Rituals
  • Transportation Planning
  • Traffic and Urban Livability

Speakers

  • Robert A. Aldrich, M.D.,, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Edmund N. Bacon, Formerly, Director of Planning, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Richard M. Beckman, AIA, Professor, Architecture Studies, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Ignacio Bunster, ASLA, Wallace Roberts & Todd, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Sam Kathryn Campana, Council Member, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
  • Gardner Church, Deputy Minister, Office for the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
  • Hal Conklin, City Councilmember, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Dorothy Inman Crews, City Commissioner, Tallahassee, FL, USA
  • Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D. (Arch.), Director, International Making Cities Livable Council, Carmel, CA, USA. Conference Organizer
  • David D. Davis, City of Santa Barbara, Community Development Department, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Helmut Doka, Member, Regional Council, Mittler-Neckar, WEST GERMANY
  • Derek Drummond, FRAIC, McDonald Professor of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA
  • Franz Eberhard, Dipl. Arch., BSA/SIA, Chief Architect (Stadtbaumeister), St. Gallen, SWITZERLAND
  • Ben Farmer, Dean, Social and Environmental Sciences, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ENGLAND, UK
  • Andreas Feldtkeller, Director of City Planning, Old City of Tübingen, WEST GERMANY
  • Jan Gehl, Senior Lecturer in Urban Design, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DENMARK
  • David Gosling, Ph.D., Director, Center for Urban Design, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Rod Hackney, Ph.D., President, International Union of Architects; Past President, Royal Institute of British Architects; Macclesfield, ENGLAND, UK
  • Hiroaki Hata, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture in Urban Design, Department of Architecture, University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
  • Daniel Iacofano, Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Don Robert Johnson, Senior Leader, Ethical Culture Society, New York, NY, USA
  • Sam Hall Kaplan, Architect and Design Critic, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • The Honorable Jimmy Kemp, Mayor, City of Meridian, MS, USA
  • Ruth Knack, Senior Editor, Planning: The APA Journal, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Ikuku Koyabe, Associate Professor, Department of Housing, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, JAPAN
  • John Kriken, Principal, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Henry L. Lennard, Ph.D., International Making Cities Livable Council, Carmel, CA, USA; Professor of Sociology in Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. Conference Organizer
  • Eva Lieberman, Planning Coordinator, San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Bruce W. Liedstrand, Liedstrand Associates, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Wendell Lipscomb, M.D., Director, SOURCE, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Gianni Longo, President, Urban Initiatives, New York, NY, USA
  • Kathryn McCamant, The CoHousing Company, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Dean Macris, Director, Department of Planning, City of San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Nabar Martinez, Deputy City Manager, City of San Jose, CA, USA
  • Frederick Meyers, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Rolf Monheim, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Bayreuth, WEST GERMANY
  • Nicholas Musso, School of Architecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
  • The Honorable Sue Myrick, Mayor, City of Charlotte, NC, USA
  • Nic Nilsson, General Secretary, International Union of Tenants, Stockholm, SWEDEN
  • Wolf Pearlman, Ph.D., Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL
  • Victor E. Polyschuk, Chief Architect of Leningrad, State City Planning Institute, Leningrad, USSR
  • Jacek Purchla, Deputy Mayor, City of Krakow, POLAND
  • Leonid Puterman, Ph.D. (Arch.), State City Planning Institute, Leningrad, USSR
  • Edoardo Salzano, former Deputy Mayor for Urban Affairs, Venice, ITALY. City Councilor, Venice and the Veneto Region. President, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, Rome, ITALY
  • Ernie Scoffham, Ph.D., Director, Urban Architecture Unit, Department of Architecture & Planning, Nottingham University, ENGLAND, UK
  • Jill Stoner, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Anselm Strauss, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Edward C. Sylvester, Jr., Staff Director, Committee on the District of Columbia, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC, USA
  • Karel Vroom, Director of Planning, City of Antwerp, BELGIUM
  • David C. Weaver, Chair and Professor, Department of Geography, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
  • Bert Winterbottom, Principal, LDR International, Inc., Columbia, MD, USA
  • Robert J. Wood, ASLA, Bechtel, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Horst Wunderlich, Dip.-Ing. Habil., Professor, Institute fur Städtebau, Wohnungswesen and Landesplanung, Universität Hannover, WEST GERMANY
  • George Wynne, Director, International Center of the Academy for State and Local Government, Washington, DC, USA

Special Events

  • San Francisco tours: Chinatown; Historic Preservation; Public Open Space & Public Art; Affordable Housing; Mission District; Mid-Market Street.
  • Welcome Reception - Fountain & Crystal Rooms
  • Awards Luncheon - Venetian Room. Special Address: Mayor Sue Myrick, Charlotte, NC., Co-Chair, US Conference of Mayors Task Force on Hunger & Homelessness
  • Reception - Museo Italo-Americano, Fort Mason