Jan 07, 2010

Visions of the City Speaker Series

“Design After the Age of Oil” addresses the role of urban design in the face of one of the most profound and important challenges facing global society: the need to re–imagine and rethink how cities are designed and organized in a future without the plentiful and abundant oil upon which prosperous urban economies have been built.

Dr. Gary Hack teaches, practices, and studies large-scale physical planning and urban design. He is the former dean of the School of Design, stepping down in 2008 after 12 years. Prior to coming to Penn, he was a professor of urban design at MIT, and a partner in the professional firm of Carr Lynch Hack and Sandell in Cambridge.

The lecture series is convened by the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in conjunction with the inauguration of its Master of Urban Design program and Charlotte’s Center City 2020 Vision Plan led by Charlotte Center City Partners.

Organized under the theme of “Visions of the City,” this series invites four distinguished professors to present their research and design work, and address issues of urbanism in the 21st century from their perspectives as architects, planners, historians, and landscape urbanists.

The first lecture by Dr. Gary Hack will be held at Wells Fargo Auditorium in Uptown, and the rest will be held at 5:00pm in Storrs Hall 110 in the School of Architecture of UNC Charlotte. All lectures are open to the public.

Wells Fargo Auditorium:
1/20/10: Design After the Age of Oil** - Gary Hack, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

**Due to space limitations, this event has reached capacity.**

Storrs Hall 110:
2/3/10: Cities After the End of Cities - Robert Fishman, University of Michigan
2/17/10: Planning, Ecology & Emergence of Landscape - Charles Waldheim, Harvard University
2/24/10: Recent Work - Yung Ho Chang, MIT, Founder, Ateliers FCJZ

Categories: Charlotte Center City Partners, Development, Community