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Civic Design & Inspired Infrastructure: A National Perspective

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Cleveland Public Library Louis Stokes Auditorium
325 Superior Avenue (Corner of Superior Avenue & East 6th Street)
Cleveland, OH 44114

Today our nation is reinvesting in cities by rebuilding the streets, bridges, highways, waterfronts, and green spaces that shape our urban landscape. The 2009 Spectrum program asks how we can make the most of this moment by exploring how engineering and design can come together to shape the new American city.

Civic Design & Inspired Architecture brings some of the nation's most innovative thinkers and practitioners in the urban design field to the Cleveland Public Library to discuss how well-designed infrastructure projects bring together form and function to shape successful cities.

Panelists are:

• Moderator, Steven Litt, Art & Architecture Critic for The Plain Dealer
• Alexandros Washburn, Director of Urban Design, New York City Planning Department. Mr. Washburn is currently writing a book titled The Nature of Urban Design, which brings together the large-scale vision of Robert Moses with the pedestrian-scale sentiments of Jane Jacobs. Mr. Washburn has been involved in projects ranging from the redesign of Penn Station (now Moynihan Station) to closing off Times Square to vehicular traffic in New York City.
• Fred Salvucci, Civil Engineer and Professor at MIT. He specializes in infrastructure and urban transportation systems. Mr. Salvucci served as the Secretary of Transportation in Massachusetts under Governor Dukakis and was involved in the planning of the Big Dig project in Boston.

This program is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Call Cleveland Public Art 216.621.5330 with questions.

 

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Cleveland Public Art has received arts employment support from the Ohio Arts Council made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts through funds allocated from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009