MILWAUKEE – A conference that examines both the urban redevelopment of old industrial cores as well as the sustainability of the suburbs and small towns is slated for April 17-18 at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM).
The conference, “Sustaining Cities: Urban Lost and Found,” will be held from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Hefter Conference Center, 3271 N. Lake Dr.
Topics will cover a wide swath of issues from re-examining a city’s relationship with the automobile and a look at environmental problems facing smaller Chinese cities, to a new perspective on sprawl and a look at the town/gown relationship between the City of Milwaukee and UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning, presented by dean Bob Greenstreet. (1:30 p.m. Friday).
Other notable speakers include:
* Robert Neuwirth, independent journalist (11 a.m. Friday)
The author of “Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World” is working on a new book about the global reach of the informal economy.
* Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois at Chicago (2 p.m. Friday)
From the man who brought you the message that urban sprawl would not be the end of cities, comes a presentation just as controversial on “Global Sprawl.”
* John Urry, Lancaster University (3 p.m. Friday)
A social scientist presents solutions to mobility issues by changing the model that dictates how people get around.
* Jennifer Wolch, University of Southern California (4:30 p.m. Friday)
Wolch, who directs the Center for Sustainable Cities at USC, will deliver the UWM Geography Department’s Harold Mayer Lecture on “Climate Change and the Carbon Hoofprint of Cities.”
The free conference is sponsored by the Center for International Education and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UWM.
For the entire program or to register, go to http://www4.uwm.edu/CIE/research/conferences/Sustaining_Cities/index.html.
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