reshaping rochester


Mayoral DebateThe Community Design Center coordinated a panel discussion with all Rochester mayoral candidates to bring forward issues related to land use, neighborhood and urban planning, and development and revitalization.



A special thank you to Carl Pultz for recording these lectures!



Lectures- past and present

 

2020 Reshaping Rochester Series Videos:

Jennifer Vey | Baltimore, MD

Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program and Director & Senior Fellow, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at The Brookings Institution

January 29 | 6pm
Gleason Works Auditorium (1000 University Ave)

 

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"Building a Sustainable Urban Future through Transportation"

Shin-pei Tsay | San Francisco, CA

Director of Policy, Cities & Transportation at UBER (formerly Commissioner of NYC Public Design)

February 26 | 6pm
Gleason Works Auditorium (1000 University Ave)

 

 

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(Virtual) Luncheon Event with Toni Griffin!

"Design for the Just City"

Toni Griffin | New York, New York

Founder of Urban Planning for the American City and Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design

Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 12PM - 1:30PM | Virtually on Zoom

 

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Carol Naughton | Atlanta, GA

President of Purpose Built Communities

October 21, 2020 at 12PM via ZOOM

 

 

Past Podcasts

The Honorable Knox White
Mayor, Greenville, SC, Location of Reedy River Falls Park

Click here to listen to this event's Podcast.
Click here to download Mayor White's Powerpoint.


"Mobility: Transportation as a Leveler"
Steve Farley

Arizona State Senator
Jacky Grimshaw
Vice President Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Click here to listen online.

Click here to download Senator Steve Farley's Powerpoint.
Click here to view CNT's Housing + Transportation Index



"Setting the Stage: What Is Equity by Design?"
Anne-Marie Lubenau, AIA
Director, Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence sponsored by the Bruner Foundation
Click here to listen online.

Click here to download Anne-Marie's Powerpoint.

Norman Garrick, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Click here to listen online.

"Considering Strategies for Rochester's Redevelopment "
Panel Discussion with Tim Griffin, AIA

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Elizabeth Waldstein-Hart, CEO

Executive Director, Walkway Over the Hudson
Click here to listen online.

Lee Quill, FAIA CNU
Founding Principal, Cunningham | Quill Architects
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Victor Dover, FAICP
Principal, Dover, Kohl & Partners
Click here to listen online.

Aaron Bartley
Co-founder of People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo)
Click here to listen online.

Jeff Speck
Principal of Speck and Associates LLC, city planner,
author and architectural designer

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Justin Langlois
Senior Research Fellow, Broken City Lab, Windsor, Ontario
Dr. Ian Wilson
Radiologist and Founder & Curator, Wall/Therapy, Rochester, NY
Click here to listen online.

Charles (Chuck) Marohn
Executive Director, Strong Towns, Baxter, Minnesota
Peter Fleischer
Executive Director, Empire State Future, Albany, NY
Click here to listen online.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer

U.S. Representative, 3rd District, Oregon
Rep. Louise Slaughter
U.S. Representative, 25th District, New York
Click here to listen online.

Mick Cornett
Mayor, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Stephanie Miner
Mayor, City of Syracuse, NY
Leonard Redon
Deputy Mayor, City of Rochester, NY
Click here to listen online.

Joseph Minicozzi, AICP
Principal, Urban3, LLC, Asheville, North Carolina
Heidi Zimmer-Meyer
President, Rochester Downtown Development Corp.
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Michael Watkins
AIA, AICP, CNU, ICA & CA LEED
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Max Reim
Co-Managing Partner & Principal, LiveWorkLearnPlay, Toronto
Jay Fowler
Executive Director, Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority
Click here to listen online.

William Fulton
Former Mayor of Ventura, CA; Principal, Design Community & Environment
Hon. Mark Mallory
Mayor of Cincinnati, OH
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Peter J. Park
Planning Director, City of Denver, CO
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Mayor David Cieslewicz
Madison, Wisconsin
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George Dark
Partner, Urban Strategies, Inc., Toronto, Canada

Jonathan Lane
Senior Principal, Icon Architecture, Inc.

Benjamin Wauford
Principal, Director of the New York Office, Cooper Carry, Inc.

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Gianni Longo
Principal, ACP Visioning and Planning, Ltd.
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Christopher Leinberger
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; Professor of Practice
and Director of the graduate Real Estate Program University of Michigan

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Dr. Timothy Beatley, PhD
Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities,
Department of Urban & Environmental Planning, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

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John Robert Smith
President and CEO, Reconnecting America; Former Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi
Click here to listen online.

Lawrence Frank
Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation, University of British Columbia.
Co-Author: Urban Sprawl and Public Health

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Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA
Director, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture;
Author: Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

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Emily Talen, PhD
Professor School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Click here to listen online.

Geoffrey Anderson
President and CEO Smart Growth America
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Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
Visiting Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UCLA
Click here to listen online.

W. Cecil Steward, FAIA
Founding President, Joslyn Institute for Sustainable Communities, Omaha, NE
Click here to listen online.

Douglas Farr, AIA
President & CEO, Farr Associates
Author: "Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature"

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Robert Fishman, PhD
Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Author: "Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia"

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Mayor George Heartwell & Suzanne Schulz, AICP
Mayor & Director of Planning, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Click here to listen online.

Jacky Grimshaw
Vice President, Policy, Transportation, and Community Development
Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois

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Alan Greenberger
Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission
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David Boehlke
Founding Member, Healthy Neighborhoods Group
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William Hudnut, III
Senior Resident Fellow, Urban Land Institute, Washington DC
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Norman Mintz
Design Director, 34th Street Partnership
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James Kunstler
Author of books: The Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency, and World Made By Hand
Contributor to the New York Times Magazine
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Jeremy Harris
Former Mayor of Honolulu, HI
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John Norquist
President, Congress for the New Urbanism, former Mayor of Milwaukee
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John Parr
Co-founder, Denver-based Center for Regional and Neighborhood Action
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Walter Kulash
Principal and Senior Traffic Engineer, Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc.
Click here to listen online.

Paul Goldberger
Architecture Critic, The New Yorker
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Jim Graebner
Integral part of the Public Transit Industry
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Kennedy Lawson Smith
Co-founder, Community Land Use and Economics (CLUE) group, LLC
Click here to listen online.

Robert Gibbs
Pioneer in reviving the community-oriented principals of traditional town planning and smart growth
Click here to listen online.

Laurie Volk
Principal, Zimmerman/Volk Associates
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Various Community Design Center Presentations

Elizabeth Miller
ACD Conference
Executive Director of the Community Design Collaborative
Click here to listen online.

Dian Picard
ACD Conference
Executive Director, Massachusetts Avenue Project, Buffalo, NY
Click here to listen online.

Matthew Potteiger
ACD Conference
Professor of Landscape Architecture, ESF Syracuse University
Click here to listen online.

A Conversation with Mayoral Candidates:
Bill Johnson, Tom Richards, and Alex White. Moderated by Rachel Barnhart

A debate with three candidates in the Rochester, NY, mayoral special election
Click here to listen online.