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What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
Presented by ADPSR - Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility
May 18, 2010
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
AIA San Francisco 130 Sutter Street, 6th Floor
Co-Sponsored by New Village Press
Celebrate the release of What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, the latest book from New Village Press, ADPSR's publishing arm. This compendium of original essays looks at the present and the future of our communities through the eyes and insights of more than thirty respected activists, scholars, economists, planners, and public figures around the world whose work has been inspired by Jacobs.
Join contributing authors Clare Cooper Marcus and Chester Hartman and co-editor Lynne Elizabeth for a conversation about next steps for shaping socially just, environmentally friendly, and economically prosperous urban communities.
"There is no better place to start than this book to see the wisdom Jane Jacobs so astutely covered almost 50 years ago. We are at the precipice of a new era and Jane Jacobs and her aficionados can show us what it could look like. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!"
-Fred Kent, President, Project for Public Spaces
Clare Cooper Marcus is Professor Emerita in the departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Principal of Healing Landscapes, a consulting firm that specializes in user-needs analysis related to the programming and design of outdoor spaces in healthcare settings. She is internationally recognized for her research on the social and psychological implications of design, particularly urban open space, affordable housing, and environments for children and for the elderly. She has lectured and consulted in the United States, Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, Netherlands, Italy, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Marcus has been recognized for her work with awards from the AIA, ASLA ,The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has authored/co-authored/edited numerous publications, including notably Housing As If People Mattered (1986), People Places (1990), House as a Mirror of Self (1995), and Healing Gardens (1999).
Chester Hartman, an urban planner and author, is Director of Research and Founder of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He holds a PhD. in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and served on the faculty there, as well as at Yale, the University of North Carolina, Cornell, the University of California-Berkeley, and Columbia University. He is currently serving as an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at George Washington University. Additionally, Dr. Hartman is the founder and former Chair of the Planners Network, a national organization of progressive urban and rural planners and community organizers, and has been a consultant to numerous public and private agencies. He has nearly two dozen books to his name.
Lynne Elizabeth is founder of New Village Press and past President of Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). She is co-editor of Works of Heart: Building Village through the Arts (2006) and Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods (2000, 2005), and a contributing author for Ecovillage Living (2002) and Sustainable Architecture White Papers (2000). Ms. Elizabeth previously produced periodicals on sustainable community development, New Village Journal and Earthword Journal. She founded the former Eos Institute for the Study of Sustainable Living and has served since 1998 as committee member and former juror for the Berkeley Prize for Architectural Design Excellence.
Visit http://adpsr.org/nor-cal/lecture-may-18-2010
$10.00 donation, No one turned away for lack of funds.
RSVP: lecture@adpsr-norcal.org
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LocationSan Francisco AIA
130 Sutter Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
United States
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