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The story of 101 Urban Salvations
February 16, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: GRW Auditorium at Point Park University
Margaret Crawford, Author and Harvard University Graduate School of Design Professor, will present "101 Urban Salvations" as the second of this season's Design Excellence Lecture Series presented by the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh.
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
GRW Auditorium at Point Park University
Fee: $20 (includes lecture, panel discusssion, and reception)
For tickets call 412-391-4144 or visit www.cdcp.org
Esteemed thought-leader Margaret Crawford recently convened an urban planning studio using the premise: "Cambridge Could Be A Better Place to Live If...". She wanted to apply the Everyday Urbanism design theory, which emphasizes the importance of lived experience in creating urbanity.
Students canvassed the city, and interviewed as many different people as possible - public officials, university faculty, school children, parents, cab drivers, baristas, community advocates, local business owners, priests, school officials, homeless people, real estate agents, teenagers, and university students. This intense engagement with the community was illuminating and, at times, inspiring.
The resulting document - 101 Urban Salvations - presents innovative and visionary proposals that are grounded in the realities of urban experience. Is this a new form of planning? Margaret Crawford says, "Perhaps." In these times of economic restraint and reduced expectations, this approach is responsive and flexible, and isn't an all or nothing method. It's a small-scale accumulated approach rather than a massive retooling of cities.
See how 101 Urban Salvations can be used as a planning and visioning tool, and how our panel applies it to explore "Pittsburgh Could Be a Better Place to Live If... ."