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DETAILED PROGRAMME
58th International Making Cities Livable, Le Plessis-Robinson, May 18-20, 2022
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Friday, May 20 (All events at Maison des Arts)
8:00 AM Registration re-opens
9:00 AM Welcome (EN)
(Theatre d'Allegria, main level)
Peter Elmlund, IMCL Director
9:10 AM PLENARY 5 (EN)
(Salle 1 du cinéma, mezzanine level)
“Learning from Le Plessis-
Robinson – and Carmel”
“The Carmel Story”
Jim Brainard
Mayor, City of Carmel, Indiana, USA
“The Le Plessis-Robinson Story”
Marc and Nada Breitman
Breitman and Breitman Architects,
Paris, France
“The Economics of Retrofitting”
Henry Mestetsky
Director of Redevelopment, City of
Carmel, Indiana, USA
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Jim Brainard
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10:10 AM NETWORKING COFFEE
10:40 AM PLENARY 6 (EN)
(Theatre d'Allegria, main level)
“Learning from Each Other”
“The Bristol Story”
George Ferguson
Past President of the Royal Institute of
British Architects and first elected
Mayor of Bristol, UK
“New Urbanism in Los Angeles, and
Beyond”
Rick Cole
Executive Director, Congress for the
New Urbanism, Washington, D.C.,
USA
“The Value of Sharing our
Experiences”
Thomas Small
CEO, Culver City Forward, and
former Mayor, City of Culver City,
California, USA
Panel Discussion
Moderator: George Ferguson
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11:40 AM NETWORKING COFFEE
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12:00 PM SPEED PRESENTATIONS (EN)
(Salle 1 du cinéma, mezzanine
level)
A series of short “Pecha Kucha”
style talks by conference
participants. Sign up by emailing
Ryan Locke, Moderator, at
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1:00 PM Lunch (on your own)
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2:30 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BREAKOUT 13:
Building 15-minute
Neighbourhoods (EN)
(Salle 1 du cinéma, mezzanine level)
“Reinventing Public Housing:
Restoring the Infrastructure of
Community that Modernism Left Out”
Frederick Biehle, Professor, Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
“Promoting Healthy Neighborhoods:
Lessons from COVID-19”
Mark Moreno, Professor of
Architecture, Andrews University
“A Downtown Reimagined: Visions
and Strategies to Restore the Historic
Squares, Districts, and Public Spaces
of Downtown Santa Rosa, California”
David Woltering, Community
Planning Consultant, Woltering
Community Planning, Santa Rosa,
California, USA
“The Edge: Architecture as Background,
Proscenium, Object and Panopticon”
Christine Storry, Architect, Utopia
Architects, Leura, New South Wales,
Australia (via Zoom)
Moderator: John Burrell, BFF
Architects, London UK
BREAKOUT 14:
“Placemaking Tools and Strategies”
(EN)
(Salle de conference, level -1)
“The Park-to-Bay Project :
Empowering people in San Diego”
Noura Bishay, Social Impact Urban
Designer, NPB Design Studio, San
Diego, CA, USA (Via Zoom)
“A Typology for Canal Oriented
Development: A Blueprint for Water-
Driven Real Estate Development in
Non-Water Cities”
Stephen Buckman, Associate
Professor of Real Estate
Development, Clemson University,
Greenville South Carolina, USA
“Between Formality and Informality:
Recording Urban Rhythms”
Susan Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada
Moderator: Susan Fitzgerald
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BREAKOUT 15:
WORKSHOP: Leading Urbanism
in Times of Chaos (EN)
(Salon Canaletto, Level -1)
Michelle DePass, Senior Equity and
Inclusion Specialist, Bureau of
Planning and Sustainability, Portland,
Oregon, USA
Michael Mehaffy, Executive Director,
Lennard Institute / IMCL and former
consultant to the City of Portland
3:45 PM NETWORKING COFFEE
4:15 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BREAKOUT 16:
“Livable Streets and Transport”
(EN)
(Salle 1 du cinéma, mezzanine level)
“Livable Streets Revisited”
Bruce Appleyard, Associate Professor,
San Diego State University, San
Diego, California, USA
“Navigating the System: A
Wayfinding Strategy for Guadalajara’s
New Transit System”
Mónica Castañeda Chávez, Project
Manager, Ministry of Infrastructure
and Public Works, State of Jalisco,
Mexico
MaaS for the masses: Potential transit
accessibility gains and required
policies under Mobility-as-a-Service
Marc Hasselwander, Research
Associate, German Aerospace Center
(DLR), Berlin, Germany
Promoting Walkability through Area-
Based Development (ABD): Case
Study of Four Smart Cities of India
Aarti Desai, Research Scholar, Sardar
Vallabhbhai National Institute of
Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India
Moderator: Mónica Castañeda Chávez
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BREAKOUT 17:
WORKSHOP: Christopher
Alexander, Pattern Languages and
the Nature of Order (EN)
(Salle de conference, level -1)
Robert Krasser, Architect, Architect,
Salzburger Inst. für Raumordnung und
Wohnen, Salzburg, Austria
Abby Tabor , Senior Lecturer /
Wallscourt Fellow, University of the
West of England, Bristol, UK
Michael Mehaffy, Executive Director,
Lennard Institute/IMCL
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BREAKOUT 18:
WORKSHOP: Leading Urbanism
in Times of Chaos (EN)
(Salon Canaletto, Level -1)
Michelle DePass, Senior Equity and
Inclusion Specialist, Bureau of
Planning and Sustainability, Portland,
Oregon, USA
5:30 PM END
7:00 PM Closing Reception (EN/FR)
(Salon Palladio – Level +2)
All are invited for drinks, hors
d’oeuvres, and music for a
memorable evening
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Saturday, May 20 (Begins at Maison des Arts)
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9:00 AM Tour of Le Plessis-Robinson
(Online registration required,
12:00 PM Tour ends
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING THE 58th IMCL!