Lectures, Consultation Services and Workshops

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.)
Director, International Making Cities Livable Conferences,

is available for

Lectures/presentations (with slides)
Consultation
Organizing Conferences & Workshops in your city

"Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard is a national treasure"

Mayor Bruce Sinclair

Lectures

Public Urban Places: Learning from Europe's best squares. Ten principles for designing successful urban places. Identifying community functions of the public realm provided by urban public places.

Architecture & City Identity: Defining city identity through architectural design guidelines. Understanding the concept of the "Shop/House" as a building block of the healthy city.

Traffic Calming & Transportation Planning: Fifteen methods for "Taming" traffic. Improving accessibility and reducing traffic. Structuring a city of short distances.

Making Cities Livable for Children: Increasing accessibility & autonomy. Making the built environment legible. Making cities socially & physically safe.

Consultation

Principles and Goals for Public Space Design

Strategies for Mixed Use Development

Review of General Plans

Evaluation of Social Impact of Development Plans

Workshops & Conferences

Dr. Lennard is available to organize Workshops and Conferences, bringing together the international perspective of IMCL Associates to focus on local problems and solutions.

Brief Biography

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard Ph.D.(Arch.)

Executive Director & Co-Founder, International Making Cities Livable Conferences

EDUCATION
Ph.D.(Arch.), Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
B.Arch.(Hons.), Department of Architecture, Bristol University, England, U.K.
RWA Dipl., Royal West of England Academy School of Architecture

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Founder & Organizer of International Making Cities Livable Conferences in US and Europe, 1985 - . Among cities where IMCL Conferences were held:

Charleston, SC, Santa Fe, NM, Savannah, GA; San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR; Venice & Siena, Italy; Freiburg, Germany; Vienna & Salzburg, Austria; London, UK. IMCL Seminars were also held in Carmel, CA, Tübingen & Ravensburg, Germany.

Consultant to cities in the US and Europe.

BOOKS
Genius of the European Square (2008)
The Wisdom of Cities (2005)
The Forgotten Child (1999)
Making Cities Livable (1997)
Livable Cities Observed (1995)
Livable Cities: People and Places (1987)
Public Life in Urban Places (1984)
Explorations in the Meaning of Architecture (1980)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS & ARTICLES
The City as Playground (in Where Do the Children Play?)

True Urbanism & the European Square (in New Urbanism & Beyond)

The European Square (in Encyclopedia of the City)

The Livable City (in Encyclopedia of the City)

Urban Space Design and Social Life (in Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought)

Physical Setting as Therapeutic Modality (in The Psychiatric Hospital)

Articles in professional journals including: Urban Land / Planning / The Mayor / The Humanist / Environment & Behaviour / Journal of Architectural Education / RIBA Journal Family Process / etc.

INVITED SPEAKER: at numerous universities, cities, business and professional organizations.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
University of California, Berkeley / SUNY Buffalo Harvard University / Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, England, UK / University of Ulm, Germany / etc.

HONORS & AWARDS:
NEA Professional Fellowship / Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts / NY State Council on the Arts Lyndhurst Foundation / Metzger-Price Fund Royal Institute of British Architects 'Under 35s' Award / etc.

Please Join Us!

At the 49th Conference on Planning Healthy Communities for All in Portland, OR, May 20-24, 2012. See Call for Papers.

"The conference was one of the most interesting and genuinely useful for information gathering that I’ve been to. The different backgrounds of the participants addressing the same issues was the key."

Joe Anglin Glatting Lopez Kercher Anglin

"A wonderful Conference. I truly believe this is the best Conference on cities."

Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., City of Charleston

"The most important continuous conference dialogue on making the world's cities and towns more livable for all of their inhabitants."

Dr. Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Governor, State of South Baden, Germany

"Congratulations for your extraordinary and successful effort. The Conference holds a magnifying glass to the world’s best cities, revealing why, and how they work."

Benjamin Thompson, FAIA AIA Gold Medalist

"Love for our cities unites all of us in this unique, impressive conference, with participants from different countries, with different professional backgrounds, but with one purpose: making our cities more livable."

Antonio Casellati Former Mayor, City of Venice, Italy

"Thank you for the utterly fascinating conference in Santa Fe... It has been a long time since I have been intellectually stimulated and been involved with such international creativity and innovations. The conference energized me and I was able to bring back ideas and information to my city."

Councilmember Stephanie Karlin, Avondale, AZ

"What an amazing conference! One of the best professional events I have ever attended!! Well-structured, extremely well-organized and super-high quality of both the presenters and materials presented."

Dr. Mirela Newman, Coordinator, Urban Studies Graduate Program, S Conn St. University

The Forgotten Child

“There is no topic more crucial to the well-being of our cities and of our democracy, and no one more qualified to give it the thoughtful attention it deserves.”