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Re-Imagining the Public Realm
The Kansas City Design Center is pleased to announce our 2004-05 lecture series, Re-Imagining the Public Realm.
Over the next three years, more than $2 billion in new public and private investments will fundamentally transform the physical fabric of downtown Kansas City. To help ensure that these projects lead to a stronger and more vibrant urban core, the KCDC is hosting a series of five lectures to begin critically evaluating the design of public spaces proposed for major public and private projects in downtown Kansas City.
Confirmed Speakers
- Andrew Altman, Director of Planning
District of Columbia
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - Lee Bey, Director of Media and Governmental Affairs,
SOM Architects
and former Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning and Design for Chicago
Mayor Richard M. Daley
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 - Douglas W. Rae, Ely Professor of Organization and
Management & Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Author, City: Urbanism and Its End
Thursday, February 10, 2005 - Allan B. Jacobs, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Cal.-Berkeley
and former director of planning, City of San Francisco
Author, Great Streets, Making City Planning Work and Looking at Cities
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - Max Page, Professor of Architecture and History
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Author, The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction (forthcoming, late 2005)
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will be held in the Gladys Feld Helzberg Auditorium of the Kansas City Public Library at Tenth and Baltimore in Downtown Kansas City. Each lecture begins at 6:00 pm, and is preceded by a reception at 5:00 pm.