Arrested Development

Just received word about the Institute for Urban Design's upcoming symposium, Arrested Development: Do Megaprojects Have a Future? The free day-long event will be held at Cooper Union's Great Hall on November 7, 2009, starting at 9:30am. Schedule is below.

Saturday, November 7th, 2009
The Great Hall, The Cooper Union
Free admission

9:30 am
Welcome: Olympia Kazi, Executive Director, Institute for Urban Design
Opening Remarks: Anthony Vidler, Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union

10:00 am – 11:30 am
MEGAPROJECTS IN SUBURBS
Lawrence Levy, Executive Director, National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
David Manfredi, Principal, Elkus Manfredi Architects
Myron Orfield, Professor of Law; Executive Director, Institute on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota
Tom Suozzi, Nassau County Executive (TBC)
Moderator: June Williamson, Associate Professor, Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College of New York / CUNY

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
MEGAPROJECTS AS NEW TOWNS
Chris Corr, Regional Chair, Planning, Design and Development, AECOM, Florida
Tom Jost, Director of Urban Planning, ARUP, New York
Emily Talen, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
James von Klemperer, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects
Moderator: Robert Fishman, Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
MEGAPROJECTS IN THE METROPOLIS
Keynote: Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President

Vishaan Chakrabarti, Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development; Director, Real Estate Development Program, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia University
Susan Fainstein, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Jeff Madrick, Senior Fellow, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School
Thom Mayne, Founder, Morphosis Architects
Moderator: Peter Grant, The Wall Street Journal