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In this issue: | 13 March 2007 | CED e-news
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LAEP COLLOQUIUM - Designing a Soft Water Path: Stormwater Designs from North America & Europe, Rosey Jencks
March 14 . | . 1:00 pm . | . Wurster Hall 315A Rosey Jencks, MLA 2005, received the Geraldine Scott traveling fellowship to research innovative urban stormwater management designs in the Pacific Northwest and Europe. She looked for multi-purpose stormwater designs that combine aesthetics and function in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, and Sweden. Her presentation will include green streets, urban creek daylighting, stormwater swimming pools, a rain-fed laundry mat, and much more. For a complete description of this event, please visit: http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/events/colloquium. Right: Photo courtesy of Rosey Jencks | |
IURD LECTURE – Global Metro Studies Lecture: The Decentered State, Jeffrey SellersMarch 14 . | . 4:00 pm . | . 104 Wurster Hall Dr. Sellers' research interests focus on comparative politics with an emphasis on Multilevel Governance and Federalism, Urban Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics, European Politics, American Politics, Environmental Policy and Politics. His research agenda centers on comparative analysis of institutions and state society relations from the "bottom-up" perspective of cities and communities. His book, Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy analyzes the growth of local efforts to provide for economic prosperity along with environmental quality and social inclusion in cities throughout France, Germany and the United States. Visit http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu for a more detailed description of this event. | |
DCRP COLLOQUIUM – Infrastructure, Privatization, and Public Transportation in Planning in Santiago, Chile, Enrique SilvaMarch 14 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall This lecture is part of the CRP Doctoral Colloquium series. For a link to this event, please visit: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. | |
ARCH LECTURE – Exploring Social Spaces, Anthony PiermariniMarch 14 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Anthony Piermarini is an architect with Studio Luz Architects in Boston. Please visit http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events for more info on this event. | |
IURD DISCUSSION – Decentralization, Democracy and Governance: The Emerging AgendaMarch 15 . | . 11:00 am . | . 316 Wurster Hall Please join the Institute of Urban and Regional Development in welcoming Dr. Jefferey Sellers, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He will lead a discussion entitled "Decentralization, Democracy and Governance: The Emerging Agenda," about his two ongoing collaborative projects: the Global Observatory and the Pacific Rim Urban Environmental Governance Project. For a link to this event, please visit: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. | |
ALUMNI MEETING – 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Environmental Alumni Network (BEAN)
March 15 . | . 6:00 pm . | . Alumni House, UC Berkeley Climate change and sustainability awareness has entered the mainstream—now it’s time to do something about it! Confirmed speakers for the evening include: Fahmida Ahmed, Manager for Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP), which is calculating Cal’s carbon footprint and developing a climate action plan for campus. Green Fund grant recipients will discuss their projects. Please RSVP for this event at: www.surveymonkey.com. For more information about BEAN please visit www.calbean.org or email info@calbean.org.
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ARCH LECTURE – Architectural History the Berkeley Way, Dell UptonMarch 17 . | . 6:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Dell Upton, David A. Harrison Professor of Anthropology and Architecture at the University of Virginia, will deliver a lecture in honor of Professor of Architectural History, Stephen Tobriner marking his retirement from the College of Environmental Design. Please visit http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar for a link to this event. | |
LAEP LECTURE – Recent Landscape Design Projects Focusing on Designing and the Growing of Design, Michael Van ValkenburghMarch 19 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Michael Van Valkenburgh, Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, is the lead principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a firm of 50 employees. Michael’s office does projects as large as the $200 million Brooklyn Bridge Park and gardens under $100,000. Plants, materials and making joyful spaces roll Michael’s socks down. For more information on this event and a list of related events, please visit http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. | |
DCRP LECTURE – Globalization and the Flow of Knowledge, AnnaLee Saxenian and Steven Weber
March 21 . | . 6:00 pm . | . Blackhawk Museum: 3700 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Danville, CA This talk is part of the Discover Cal Spring 2007 Lecture Series and features AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor of City Planning and Dean of UC Berkeley's School of Information, and Steven Weber, Director of the Institute of International Studies. There will be a reception from 6:00-7:00 pm, followed by the lecture and Q & A session from 7:00–8:30 pm. This talk will be repeated on Thursday, March 22, at Google in Mountain View, California. To register for this event, please visit: http://www.acteva.com. Right: AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor of City Planning and Dean of School of Information | |
ARCH LECTURE – Gray Matters, Raveevarn ChoksombatchaiMarch 21 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Raveevarn Choksombatchai is an Associate Professor of Architecture at CED and partner of VeeV Studio in San Francisco. For a link to this event, please visit: http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/events/lectures. | |
DCRP LECTURE – Globalization and the Flow of Knowledge, AnnaLee Saxenian and Steven WeberMarch 22 . | . 6:00 pm . | . Google: Building 43, Tunis Tech Talk Room, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA This talk is part of the Discover Cal Spring 2007 Lecture Series and features AnnaLee Saxenian, Professor of City Planning and Dean of UC Berkeley's School of Information, and Steven Weber, Director of the Institute of International Studies. There will be a reception from 6:00-7:00 pm, followed by the lecture and Q & A session from 7:00–8:30 pm. To register for this event, please visit: http://acteva.com. | |
LAEP LECTURE – Design for Ecological Democracy, Randy HesterApril 2 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Randy Hester, LAEP Professor and Community Development by Design Partner applies landscape architecture to some of the truly wicked problems of our time. He uses design to encourage informed democracy and shape the political landscape. Community—in the A. Leopold and M.L. King senses—guides his work. He uses and teaches an original and unique design approach crafted from the civil rights movement and his childhood as a farm boy. For a link to this event, please visit: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. | |
DCRP COLLOQUIUM – Inter-port Competition, Corporatization, and Port Ownership, Sanghyun CheonApril 4 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall This lecture is part of the DCRP Doctoral Colloquium series. For a link to this event, please visit: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. | |
ARCH LECTURE – 2 Museums in the U.S., Florian IdenburghApril 4 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall Florian Idenburg is an architect with SANAA Tokyo/New York. He is a Dutch architect working in New York and Tokyo. In 1999 he participated in the Japan Prizewinners Program and completed a seven-month internship at Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA. He has worked there since, and in 2002, he moved to New York to oversee the office's U.S. projects. In 2003, he became an associate. At SANAA, he has been involved in a number of key projects, most notably the Stadstheater in Almere, the Netherlands; the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Spain; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio; and recently the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York. For a link to this event, please visit: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. | |
IURD SYMPOSIUM – Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge: New Ruralism and Other Urban-Rural Sustainability StrategiesApril 5 . | . 8:00 am . | . University of California, Berkeley Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge will bring together researchers, practitioners, producers, and policymakers involved in bridging sustainable agriculture and smart growth. The symposium will explore systems and place-based issues affecting urban-rural interface. Join IURD to discover best practices and identify major research questions on: urban edge land use policy and economics, environmental services and impacts of urban edge architecture, vitality of rural communities in metropolitan-influenced areas, and emerging urban-rural compact. For more information and to register, please visit http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/agmetroedge. | |
LAEP LECTURE – Landscape Planning: A History of Influential Ideas, Carl SteinitzApril 9 . | . 7:00 pm . | . 112 Wurster Hall This talk is part of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning's Spring 2007 Lecture Series. For a link to this event, please visit: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar. | |
DCRP COLLOQUIUM – Fixing and Mixing the Public Neighbor, Jane RongerudeApril 11 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall The lecture “Fixing and Mixing the Public Neighbor: San Francisco, HOPE VI, and the Redevelopment of Hunters View” is part of the DCRP Doctoral Colloquium series. Please visit http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar for a link to the event. | |
ARCH LECTURE – Verify in Field, Eric HöwelerApril 11 . | . 5:00 pm . | . 106 Wurster Hall The lecture “Fixing and Mixing the Public Neighbor: San Francisco, HOPE VI, and the Redevelopment of Hunters View” is part of the DCRP Doctoral Colloquium series. Please visit http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/calendar for a link to the event. | |
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On April 8, Mary Comerio will present “Design in Earthquake Country” at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt. Mary Comerio is an internationally recognized expert on disaster recovery. Professor Comerio was the principal investigator on the pilot study for the Disaster Resistant University Initiative funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and UC Berkeley in 1998. In April 2006, the Applied Technology Council and Engineering News-Record selected the Disaster Resistant University Program as one of its top U.S. seismic projects of the 20the century. | |
On March 5, the Building Task Force of the Pike County Public Library (PCPL) System announced the selection of Frederic Schwartz Architects (FSA) of New York , NY as the winner of a six-month competition to create a preliminary architectural plan for a new 18,000 sq.ft. central library. The Schwartz design, which features many innovative green building technologies and methods, was the unanimous choice among a twelve-person Design Jury that reviewed the presentations of three competition finalists during a day-long session held at Grey Towers on February 24, 2007. For more information about Frederic Schwartz Architects, please visit: www.schwartzarch.com.
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Landscape architect Ron Lutsko, who formerly taught Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley, was featured in the March 11 San Francisco Chronicle Magazine article, “Stepping Up to the Plate – Hilltop Meadows and a Secluded Spa Form Outdoor Rooms.” To read the entire article, please visit: www.sfgate.com.
Right: An estate garden by Ron Lutsko on the Peninsula. Photo by Marion Brenner. | |
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Tamar Cooper, 1st year MCP, is helping coordinate internship opportunities and resources for continuing MCP students. If you know of any such positions (especially for summer!), please drop Tamar an email at dcrp@berkeley.edu. | |
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