Invited Speakers
Laura Petrella, Head of the City Planning, Extension and Design Unit at UN-Habitat, Nairobi, KENYA. The Suburbs in the New Urban Agenda and Toward a New International Research and Practice Agenda |
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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Pioneering urbanist and architect, and co-author of Suburban Nation: The rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. Dialogue: The Future of the Suburbs and From the Charter of Athens to the New Urban(ism) Agenda |
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Christopher Leinberger, Professor at George Washington University, Developer, Researcher, Author, and Former Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program of The Brookings Institution, Washington DC. Urbanizing the Suburbs: The New Value of WalkUPs |
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Ellen Dunham-Jones, Co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a leading authority on suburban redevelopment. Retrofitting Suburbia: An Update |
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Mayor James Brainard, City of Carmel, IN. Former Member of President Obama's Climate Task Force. Carmel’s Suburban Retrofit: A Case Study |
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Mayor Rui Moreira, Porto, PORTUGAL. 2019 IMCL Joseph P. Riley Awardee.* |
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George Ferguson, CBE, PPRIBA, Architect, former Mayor, City of Bristol, UK. The Bristol Story: A UK Perspective |
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Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Public Health and the Suburbs |
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Phil Stafford, Ph.D., Director, Center on Aging and Community, Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Intergenerational Contact Zones: Design for Engagement across the Generations |
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Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Dr., former Freiburg Mayor and Governor, State of Süd-Baden, GERMANY, responsible for guiding Europe’s most livable and sustainable new urban neighborhoods, Rieselfeld and Vauban. The Freiburg Story: A Continental Perspective |
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Ettore Maria Mazzola, Architect & Urbanist, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Rome, ITALY. The Zeitgeist and the Ortgeist: Redefining Place Values |
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Ferdinand Stoddert Johns, FAIA, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, IMCL Board, Oak Harbor, WA. Why Small Towns Still Matter |
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Peter Elmlund, Director, Urban City Research at Ax:son Johnson Foundation, and Former Director, Centre for the Future of Places, Stockholm, SWEDEN.What is a Suburb? |
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Michael W. Mehaffy,Director, IMCL, and Senior Researcher, Centre for the Future of Places, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Lessons from Public Space Research |
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