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Audio Library
Smart, Green, and Connected
Smart Growth
April 17, 2013
How do designers measure success in urban revitalization projects? Landscape architect Kim Mathews, RLA, ASLA, principal of Mathews Nielsen, discusses resiliency and renewal through the lens of her firm’s Cinderella projects on New York City’s urban edge.
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A History of Future Cities
April 15, 2013
Daniel Brook discusses his book, A History of Future Cities, which examines four “instant cities”—St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai—to explore three centuries of the developing world’s attempts to modernize overnight.
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Portraits in Design: John Russell Pope
Portraits in Design
April 14, 2013
Steven McLeod Bedford, principal architectural historian at The Louis Berger Group, and author of John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire (Rizzoli) discusses John Russell Pope’s life and work, which includes Richmond, Virginia’s, Union Station, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the West Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Notre Dame: The 21st Century Restoration of an Architectural Icon
April 4, 2013
Benjamin Mouton, Hon. AIA, chief architect of Historic Monuments of France, and vice president of ICOMOS, discusses the major restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, the scientific grounds for historic monuments conservation, and the modern tools used by preservationists today.
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Stories of Community Development in D.C.
April 1, 2013
Panelists discussed the past, present, and future of community development in Washington, D.C., which is experiencing rapid neighborhood change.
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Rethinking Urban Rivers in an Age of Climate Change
Smart Growth
March 21, 2013
John R. Wennersten, environmental policy writer, Smithsonian consultant on urban waterways, and author of Global Thirst: Water and Society in the 21st Century, discusses how rivers fit into local and global public policy.
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Portraits in Design: Daniel H. Burnham
Portraits in Design
March 17, 2013
Judith Paine McBrien, director of the film Make No Little Plans, examined Daniel H. Burnham’s work, which includes his large scale plans for Chicago and Washington, D.C.
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FHA and the Future of Affordable Housing
March 4, 2013
Panelists discuss the Federal Housing Administration’s role in charting the next era of affordable housing in the U.S.
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Antón García-Abril
Spotlight on Design
February 13, 2013
Antón García-Abril, co-founding principal of the Madrid-based architecture firm Ensamble, presented the firm’s work, which includes Madrid’s Reader’s House and Cervantes Theater in Mexico City.
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The Rise, Fall and Rise of Detroit - Introduction
February 7, 2013
Once the nation’s fifth-largest city, Detroit has lost nearly 60% of its population since the mid-1950s. Panelists discuss the challenges facing a shrinking Detroit and the planning and econmic development solutions for revitalizing the city.
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