Join CNU-CTX for a dynamic day of concepts and conversations at our inaugural Reimagining Community forum.
We’re pleased to present a full day of online speakers, panels, and connections. With four panels discussing topics like affordable housing, transit and infrastructure, to healthy communities and equitable cities—and featuring a must-see keynote session by Jan Gehl—this virtual gathering will be an interactive forum to discuss the critical issues that are driving our society today.
Panel discussions throughout the day include:
It’s the End of Single Family Zoning (As We Know It)
Transit-Oriented Justice
Transforming Highways to Boulevards Across Texas
Rethinking Streets in the Pandemic and Beyond
At 1:00 p.m. Jan Gehl will present the keynote session, “Liveable Cities for the 21st Century.” Around 1960 the paradigms for city planning were radically changed. Modernism became dominant, and focus moved from a city of spaces, to a city of buildings surrounded by left over space. At about the same time the invasion of automobiles really took off. In this process the care for the people using cities - looked after for centuries by tradition and experience - was completely left behind. Cities for People became an over- looked and forgotten dimension. The keynote will take a bold look at what livable cities could be in the 21st century.
About Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl is an Architect, Founding Partner of Gehl Architects, and Professor emeritus of Urban Design, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, he has published several books, including, “Life Between Buildings”, “Cities for People”, “New City Spaces”, “Public Spaces – Public Life”, “New City Life” and most recently “How to Study Public Life”. As part of Gehl Architects, Jan Gehl has collaborated on projects for the cities of Copenhagen, London, Melbourne, Sydney, New York and Moscow, among others. He is an honorary fellow of the architectural institutes in Denmark, England, Scotland, Ireland, USA and Canada . He has been awarded the ”Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to Town Planning” by The International Union of Architects as well as honorary doctor degrees from Universities in Edinburgh, Varna, Halifax and Toronto.