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The 2023 Lecture Series features four lectures (February through June).
All evening lectures will begin at 6:30pm in the Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium (with the exception of the April lecture which will be held at Gleason Works).
A Networking Reception will be held prior to each evening lecture held at the MAG, beginning at 5:30pm in the Atrium.
For more information send an e-mail here or call 585.271.0520
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CDCR is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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2023 Past Lectures:
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In keeping with this year’s retrospective theme, “Then & Now,” leading urbanist and sustainable suburban redevelopment expert Ellen Dunham-Jones returns to Rochester to give her impressions of what has changed for the better and what still needs work. She will focus on six urgent challenges: public health, supporting an aging society, leveraging social capital for equity, competing for jobs, and water and energy resilience to adapt to climate change.
Dunham-Jones will present compelling case studies and explore topics that resonate in our region: dead malls, dying strip malls, big box stores, aging office parks, and rundown apartment complexes, among others. Since last speaking at the CDCR in March, 2010, Dunham-Jones and her co-author June Williamson released a second book, Case Studies in Suburban Retrofit: Urban Design Strategies. They were compelled to write the new book because of the increase in number, design quality, and ambition of suburban retrofits.
While the first generation of suburban retrofits were primarily focused on reducing auto-dependence (still relevant), the new generation are doing that in addition to improving public health, supporting an aging society, leveraging social capital for equity, providing new jobs, all while applying strategies for water and energy resilience to adapt to climate change.
An award-winning architect, published author, and professor of architecture and urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ellen Dunham-Jones is a leading authority on suburban redevelopment. She lectures widely, conducts workshops with municipalities, and consults on individual projects.
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Norman Garrick is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Garrick is also a former member of the national board of The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), co-chair of CNU’s Transportation Task Force and a CNU Fellow. He specializes in the planning and design of urban transportation systems, including transit, streets, street networks, parking, bicycle and pedestrian facilities. His research and writings have reached a wide audience through outlets such as The Washington Post, The Denver Post and The Hartford Courant, The Atlantic CityLab, Planetizen, New Urban News, Streetsblog, and Streetfilm. In addition to his academic career, Dr. Garrick has worked as transportation consultant on numerous design charrettes including urban revitalization projects with the Prince of Wales Foundation in Kingston, Jamaica and in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Dr. Garrick is the recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s Wootan Award for Best Research Paper in policy and organization, and is a Fulbright Fellow.
AICP and APA members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits at this event. (Members must be in attendance for the duration of the event and check in at the admissions desk in order to receive CM Credit).
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"Neighborhoods for the New Era"
Victor Dover
Founding Principal, Dover, Kohl & Partners
Wednesday, April 26 at 6:30 pm*
Gleason Works Auditorium
1000 University Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
*Note different day and venue for this presentation only!
Principal-in-charge, Victor Dover is nationally recognized as an innovator in city planning, neighborhood design and street design. He has led more than 200 charrettes. Victor lectures widely around the world on the topics of livable communities and sustainable development, and has served as national chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). He coauthored, with John Massengale, the breakthrough book Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns (Wiley 2014). Victor has been awarded the John Nolen Medal for contributions to urbanism, is a Fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and CNU, and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Miami. Victor also serves as president of the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade and as a board member of the National Recreation & Parks Association.
This lecture has been approved by the AIA and the AICP for 1.5 Continuing Education credits per attendee. Those seeking credit must sign in upon arrival at the event.
AIA Rochester
1.5 LU/HSW Credit Available
AICP and APA members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits at this event. (Members must be in attendance for the duration of the event and check in at the admissions desk in order to receive CM Credit).
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CDCR welcomes back Laurie Volk, who was part of the ReShaping Rochester lineup in 2007. Volk is an expert of the housing market and related data analysis tools. She has developed new research methods and directed their application across real estate markets and geo-demographics that propelled her firm, Zimmerman/Volk Associates to national prominence. Her recent efforts have focused on the development of analytical tools to determine the market potential for two critical initiatives: the mixed-income, mixed-tenure repopulation and stabilization of fragile inner-city neighborhoods, and new mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented sustainable neighborhood developments. Volk was a founding board member of the National Charrette Institute, and has also held board positions at the Congress for New Urbanism, Seaside Institue, and the Remaking Cities Institute. She was a recipient of the 2002 Knight Fellowship for Community Building, has taught market analysis at the University of Pennsylvania, and has written and researched for The Times of London and The Sunday Times.
This lecture has been approved by the AIA and the AICP for 1.5 Continuing Education credits per attendee. Those seeking credit must sign in upon arrival at the event.
AIA Rochester
1.5 LU/HSW Credit Available
AICP and APA members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits at this event. (Members must be in attendance for the duration of the event and check in at the admissions desk in order to receive CM Credit).
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We were thrilled to welcome back Dr. Lawrence Frank, professor of Urban Studies and Planning at USCD, thirteen years after his previous presentation in the reShaping Rochester series, and equally honored to have had opening remarks by Mayor Malik Evans.
Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Frank formed Urban Design 4 Health or “UD4H,” a Rochester-based firm that works locally, nationally, and internationally in the application of evidence-based land use and transportation decision making to promote health, social justice, and sustainability.
Frank’s work and research focuses on the intersection between community health and urban planning. His work led to the coining of "walkability" and the practice of assessing public spaces based on evidence and data regarding public health and well-being. Recognized as one of the top ranking academics in the social sciences since 2014, Dr. Frank has led over $20 million in primary research and consults with government agencies, NGOs, and decision makers supporting their ability to predict travel, GHG, chronic disease, and economic impacts of land use and transportation policies.