Onward: New Ideas for Street Design
May 25, 2016
6:30 – 8:15 PM
Kohn Pedersen Fox
11 West 42nd Street
Join us May 25 for cocktails and conversation on the future street design in New York.
New plazas, bike and bus lanes across the five boroughs are proving the value of street reclamation. On-demand delivery services are reducing trips to grocery stores and neighborhood retail. And autonomous vehicles may soon take to the streets. In light of these street transformations and new technologies, how could New York repurpose its largest public space: its street grid?
Join us as we present new visions for the future of street design in New York: Make Way for Lower Manhattan, presented by Kate Ascher; A Street Management and Evaluation Framework, presented by Margaret Newman; Smart Autonomous Intersections, presented by Paolo Santi; and the FOREX Forest Expressway, presented by Catherine Seavitt.
Registration for this event is available exclusively to Urban Design Forum Fellows and their guests.
Speakers
| Ascher | Kate Ascher Kate Ascher is a Partner at Buro Happold, where she leads the Cities Group. Her public sector work has involved overseeing major infrastructure and master planning projects for the New York metropolitan region, including a series of major waterfront projects. She is currently the Milstein Professor of Urban Development at Columbia University, where she teaches real estate, infrastructure and urban planning. She is also the author of several books on public infrastructure and the delivery of municipal services. |
| Newman2 | Margaret Newman Margaret Newman is an Associate Principal at Arup. An architect and urban planner with over 25 years of experience, she has held key positions in public and municipal organizations, including Executive Director of the Municipal Arts Society in New York and Chief of Staff to Janette Sadik-Khan at the NYCDOT. She is also founding partner in Marren and Newman Architects, a multidisciplinary architecture and design firm. |
| santi | Paolo Santi Paolo Santi is a Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab where he leads the MIT/Fraunhofer Ambient Mobility initiative, and is a Senior Research at the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR in Italy. His research interest is in the modeling and analysis of complex systems ranging from wireless multi hop networks to sensor and vehicular networks and, more recently, smart mobility and intelligent transportation systems. |
| Seavitt1 | Catherine Seavitt Catherine Seavitt is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at CUNY’s City College of New York and principal of Catherine Seavitt Studio. Her research focuses on design adaptation to sea level rise in urban coastal environments and explores novel landscape restoration practices given the dynamics of climate change. She co-authored the book On the Water: Palisade Bay, which served as the foundation for the 2010 exhibition Rising Currents at the Museum of Modern Art. |
Image Credit: FOREX, Catherine Seavitt