City Legacies

8:30: Coffee

8:50: Welcome and introductions

Laura Wolf-Powers, Chair, Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Brooklyn, NY

9:00: PANEL 1—Community Development’s Winding Road

Presenters:

Brad Lander, Director, Pratt Center for Community Development, Brooklyn, NY
Pierre Clavel, Michael Powell, and Kenneth Reardon, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Karen Chapple, University of California Berkeley

Paper: Abstract

Discussant:

Ronald Shiffman, Director Emeritus, Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development

10:15: Break

10:30: PANEL 2—The Persistent Housing Question

Presenters:

Edward G. Goetz, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Paper: Abstract
Hilary Botein, Columbia University, New York, NY

Paper: The Impact and Legacy of the United Housing Foundation's Class Homogeneity

Discussant:

Frank Braconi, Director, Citizens Housing and Planning Council, New York, NY

11:45: Break

NOON: PANEL 3—Blight and Flexibility: The Lives and Times of Two Planning Buzzwords

Presenters:

Rosten Woo, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Brooklyn, NY

Paper: Blight Detectors
Tuna Tasan-Kok, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Paper: Does Flexibility Make Sense Now? Innovative Approaches for Creative Cities of the 21st Century

Discussant:

1:15: Free Time for Lunch

2:30: PANEL 4—Fighting City Hall: Dilemmas of Citizen Engagement in Planning

Presenters:

Discussant:

Kathe Newman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

3:45: Break

4:00: PANEL 5—Reflecting a Moment: Media’s Role in Community Engagement

Moderators:

William Menking, Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Brooklyn, NY
Paper: Abstract

Panelists:

Miriam Greenberg, Pratt Institute Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Brooklyn, NY
Alyssa Katz, Former Editor, City Limits
Alan Moore, Historian of Public Art and Arts Organizations
Tom Robbins, Columnist, The Village Voice
Uffe Surland, Former Illustrator for STREET
Brian Sullivan, Former Contributor to STREET

5:00: Conclude

For further information contact Laura Wolf-Powers (lwolfpow@pratt.edu) or Bill Menking (wmenking@archpaper.com).