What Makes Commercial Centers Work: Getting Planning and Transportation Right
Bend Metro Park and Recreation District, Riverbend Community Room
Bend, OR
Jeff Speck, AICP, CNU-A, LEED-AP, Hon. ASLA City Planner & Architectural Designer www.jeffspeck.com
Jeff Speck is a city planner and architectural designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003-2007, he oversaw the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Prior to this, Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., a leading practitioner of the New Urbanism.He is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as the just-released Smart Growth Manual. He serves as a Contributing Editor to Metropolis Magazine, and on the Sustainability Task Force of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Lecture Abstract:
Downtowns, Main Streets, and other commercial centers are more than just places of exchange; they are the hearts and souls of our communities. When they are poorly designed or simply lacking, a community can still survive economically, but it will not thrive socially. If our towns and cities are to flourish in the years ahead (and indeed if our society is to evolve beyond its current unhealthy status) we must reposition our commercial spaces as the sort of irresistible places that bring people together, not just to shop, but to participate in the public realm and all that it implies. More than anything, this is the job of design.
This lecture is sponsored by Oregon Transportation and Growth Management Program, NorthWest Crossing, Miller Lumber, SunWest Builders and Tozer Design.
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| Start: | Thursday Sep 22, 2011 7:00 PM | | End: | Thursday Sep 22, 2011 9:00 PM |
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Bend Metro Park and Recreation District, Riverbend Community Room
799 SW Columbia Street
Bend, OR 97702
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