[ REVIEW OF EVENTS ]
PUBLIC conversations:
Re-Imagining Vacant Land in Philadelphia
For a review of each event, click on the appropriate title below.
Banking on the Future: The Economics of Vacant Land Policy
Historic Opportunities: Remaking Philadelphia’s Environment
Ecologies of Revitalization: Mill Creek, West Philadelphia
From Brownfields to Greenfields: Diversity along the Schuylkill River
Culture and Agriculture: The Art and Business of Transforming Vacant Land
Building a River City: The Economics of Amenity on the North Delaware Riverfront
Views from the Future: Students’ Visions for Philadelphia
The Public Conversation CONTINUES…
For more information on the Philadelphia LANDvisions international DESIGN COMPETITION , visit www.landvisions.
The “community visioning” phase of the design competition, entitled “Our Voices, Our Future,” includes three large public forums:
Public Community Visioning Session: May 5, 4-8 pm (registration required)
River Corridors Visioning Session: May 18, 4-8pm
Neighborhoods Session: May 25, 4-8pm
The first design phase of the competition kicks off in September. It is an open competition and all are encouraged to enter and present their ideas for vacant land – young and old, students and professionals, community groups and neighborhood residents, designers and policy makers. Community-based organizations interested in teaming up with architects to participate in the competition should contact the Community Design Collaborative (www.cdesignc.org).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Urban Studies Program thanks the following people who helped plan, organize, and publicize this series of public conversations:
Eugenie Birch, City & Regional Planning Department and Penn Institute for Urban Research
Lauren Bornfriend, Philadelphia Parks Alliance
Isabel Boston, Administrative Coordinator, Urban Studies Program
Graciela Cavicchia, The Reinvestment Fund
Linda Dottor, Community Design Collaborative
Ira Goldstein, The Reinvestment Fund
Mike Groman, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Baldev Lamba, Temple University
Deenah Loeb, City Parks Association
Michael Nairn, Branch Brook Park Alliance
Alex Paik, Webmaster, Urban Studies Program
Maitreyi Roy, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Elaine Simon, Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program
Patrick Starr, Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Mark Stern, Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program
Jeffrey Travia, Undergraduate Assistant, Urban Studies Program
Carolyn Wallis, Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Todd Wolfson, Graduate Assistant, Urban Studies Program
The Political Science Department at Penn generously donated its space in The Forum at Stiteler Hall.
Albert Louie of the School of Social Work provided projection technology for each session.
The following Urban Studies classes participated in the Public Conversation series:
URBS 454/554/CPLN 559 - Information, Public Policy, and the Redevelopment of the City
URBS 104/HIST 104 - The Urban Crisis
URBS 206/506/CPLN 620 - The Public Environment of Cities: Intro to Urban Landscape
URBS 210/HIST 210 - The City
URBS 410/FNAR 201 - Urban Community and the Arts
URBS 712/CPLN 620 - Inner City Revitalization
The series was coordinated and moderated by Domenic Vitiello of the Urban Studies Program