Transforming Communities Through Urban Acupuncture

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Transforming Communities Through Urban Acupuncture:
A Conversation with Jaime Lerner and Hillary Brown
Moderated by James Russell - September 25, 2014
Jaime Lerner
Hillary Brown James Russell
Founder
Founding Principal Adjunct Professor
Jaime Lerner Associated Architects
New Civic Works City College of New York
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Agenda
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 Introductions and Overview: James Russell
 Panel Briefings
Jaime Lerner, Jaime Lerner Associated Architects
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Hillary Brown, New Civic Works
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 Panel Discussion
 Audience Questions (submit through side panel)
(Please take the brief exit survey)
Moderator
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James Russell is an adjunct professor at the Spitzer School of Architecture
at the City College of New York. An architecture critic, journalist, and
consultant, he comments on WNYC public radio Morning Edition and All
Things Considered. Mr. Russell is a leading advocate of low-tech and low-cost
strategies for buildings and communities for achieving dramatic reductions in
global-warming effects. His book, The Agile City: Building Well Being and
Wealth in an Era of Climate Change, details urban retrofitting strategies and
approaches to carbon-reduction, transportation planning, water delivery, and
more - to simultaneously slash long-term costs and prepare urban areas for
climate change impacts.
Meet the Panelists
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Jaime Lerner is a renowned architect and planner who served three terms as
mayor of Curitiba, Brazil and two terms as governor of the State of Paraná. As a
pioneering architect and urbanist, Lerner transformed his city into a global
model of the sustainable and livable community. Jaime has won numerous
international awards, including the United Nations Environmental Award in
1990, and was nominated as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential
thinkers in the world in 2010. Lerner is Founder of Jaime Lerner Associated
Architects and author of the upcoming book Urban Acupuncture from Island
Press, described as required reading for all students of city planning and for
anyone who wants to make a difference in their city.
Hillary Brown is founding principal of New Civic Works, which assists
government agencies, universities, and institutional clients in integrating high
performance design practices into their building and infrastructure
development programs. Ms. Brown served on the national Board of Directors
for the U.S. Green Building Council and is on the Board of its New York
Chapter. Her new book, Next Generation Infrastructure, advocates system-
level thinking to replacing America's aging infrastructure, where architects,
engineers, urban planners, and public officials adapt holistic approaches to
make smarter decisions about revamping outdated infrastructure.
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