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NC State University College of Design
Raleigh Department of City Planning/Urban Design Center
NC State Foundation

7th Annual Urban Design Conference
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Raleigh Convention Center
2 East South Street
8 am to 4:30 pm

Conference Schedule

Speaker Biographies

Session Descriptions

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Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities

The 7th Annual Urban Design Conference, Creating Value: Designing for Resilient Cities, will explore the design strategies that cities imagine, develop, and implement as they grow stronger and more vibrant while facing economic, environmental, and social challenges. Presenters and conference attendees will delve into the elements of resiliency that designers, planners, developers and policy-makers use to enhance the value of the cities facing these challenges.

SPEAKERS:

Maurice Cox, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Virgina,
Immediate Past Director of Design, National Endowment for the Arts

Thomas R. Dunbar, Executive Director, Center for Resilient Cities

Jim Heid, President and Founder, UrbanGreen

McDuffie (Mac) Nichols, Principal, Economics at AECOM

Shelley Poticha, Senior Advisor for Sustainable Housing and Communities, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Moderator: Paul F. Morris, FASLA, Greenleaf Strategies, LLC

NOTE: Previously confirmed speaker Joan Busquets is unexpectedly unable to present at the conference. The committee is seeking a new speaker to be announced.

(Click on speaker biographies link above for more information.)

SPONSORS TO DATE:
SUPPORTER:
Clark Nexsen
US Green Building Council North Carolina Triangle Chapter

PATRONS:
ColeJenest & Stone
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

CONTRIBUTORS:
Adams Products Company
AIA Triangle
Cherokee Investment Partners, LLC
Clancy & Theys Construction Company
CLH Design, P.A.
Empire Properties
Greenleaf Strategies, LLC
KlingStubbins
North Carolina Solar Center
Rodgers Builders, Inc.
STEWART
ValleyCrest Landscape Companies

INTERESTED IN SPONSORING THE CONFERENCE?

For sponsorship information and to submit your commitment online, click here. For a PDF sponsorship form to fill in and fax, click here.


CONFERENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Douglas Brinkley, AIA, CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR
Partner, Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee

Michael Cole, ASLA, COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR
Partner, ColeJenest & Stone

Robin Abrams, Ph.D., AIA, ASLA
Head, School of Architecture
NC State University College of Design

Elizabeth Alley, AICP
Planner II, City of Raleigh Urban Design Center

Chris E. Brasier, AIA, LEED AP
Vice President & Office Director, SmithGroup

Gene Bressler, FASLA
Head, Department of Landscape Architecture
NC State University College of Design

Nilda Cosco, Ph.D.
Education Specialist, The Natural Learning Initiative
NC State University College of Design

Sean A. Dolle, PE, LEEDŽAP
Civil Project Manager, STEWART.

Daniel T. Douglas, AICP
Director of Urban Planning and Design, KlingStubbins

Paul F. Morris, FASLA
Greenleaf Strategies, LLC

Celen Pasalar, Ph.D.
Director, Downtown Studio/Extension Planning Specialist
NC State University

Dona Stankus, AIA
Director, NC Healthy Built Homes Program
NC State University NC Solar Center

Rodney Swink, FASLA
Adjunct Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
NC State University College of Design

Sean Vance, AIA
Extension Assistant Professor (Architecture)
Director, Center for Universal Design
NC State University College of Design

Click here to go the College's main continuing education web page.


Related Programs:

3rd Annual
GROWING IN PLACE SYMPOSIUM

Presented by the
Natural Learning Initiative
Friday, March, 5, 2010
Marbles Kids Museum

ULI TRIANGLE PUBLIC LECTURE
VIBRANT CENTERS
LECTURE:
John Hodges-CoppleTriangle J Council of Governments
PANEL:
Mitchell Silver, AICP
City of Raleigh Planning Dept
Ted Van Dyk, AIA
New City Design Group
Smedes York, York Properties
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Friday, March 5, 2010
Raleigh Municipal Building, Council Chamber
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.


PAST URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCES: (dates and links to program PDF files)

February 21, 2009
Healthy City > Healthy People: Design Solutions

March 1, 2008
Urban Growth: Intelligent by Design

March 24, 2007
Designing for a Sustainable Urban Region

February 18, 2006
Designing Sustainable Cities

February 5, 2005
Designing Communities for Healthy Living

February 7, 2004
Renewed Communities: Downtown Partnerships for Design and Development