On November 11 and 12, the community is invited to attend a public lecture and community workshop that revolves around urban planning, urbanism, urban design, and social equality. The event will be chaired by Emily Talen, Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Sustainability. Talen is the recipient of the prestigious 2014 Will and Nan Clarkson Chair in Planning award, which has given the urban planning advocate the chance to come to Buffalo to discuss the roles that the community and the city have when it comes to the benefits of good neighborhood-level diversity and how codes can benefit placemaking (and vice versa).
There probably couldn’t be a better time for a workshop of this nature in Buffalo. As this city continues to blossom after years of laying fallow, new developments will clash with established neighborhoods, particularly on the city’s East Side (as seen here just recently). Not to mention the Green Code that is being adapted.
According to Talen, “Our inability to deal with social difference at a localized, neighborhood level has been blamed as the root cause of intractable urban problems from sprawl to inner-city disinvestment, from failing schools to environmental degradation. But is neighborhood-level diversity always a good thing? How should it be defined and operationalized? What level of diversity is achievable? How should we evaluate this elusive planning goal in light of increasing socio-spatial separation?”
Currently, Talen has four books under her belt: New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures; Design for Diversity; Urban Design Reclaimed; and City Rules. She also edited the 2nd edition of the Charter of the New Urbanism, Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents (with Andres Duany). Adding to her accomplishments, Talent is also recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Join the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning on Nov. 11th and 12th for a public lecture and community workshop. Both events take on the topic of neighborhood-level diversity and how planning can address challenges in achieving it. Click here for details.
“City Rules: How Codes Create Place”
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014
12 Noon
UB Downtown Gateway Building, 77 Goodell Street, Buffalo, Room 208
“Neighborhood Diversity: Chasing an Elusive Planning Goal”
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014
6 pm
301 Crosby Hall, UB South Campus