ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy is gratefully
acknowledged for their work in organizing the Distinguished Mayors
Panel. Without their efforts, this panel would not have been possible.
We also are thankful to the Baker Institute for allowing us to use
their commons for the luncheons and the opportunity for the attendees
to enjoy the exhibits near that area.
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
March 2, Monday, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
March 3, Tuesday, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
March 4, Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
PRE-REGISTERED ATTENDEES
On-Site Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. and is available throughout above time frames.
Schedule/Speakers
MONDAY
Day 1: The City in the Twenty-First Century: What Works, What Doesn’t.
Michael O. Emerson, Chair, De Lange Conference VII
Allyn and Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology and Founding Director, Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life, Rice University http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~soci/faculty/profile/emerson.html
Richard Raymond Johnson, Co-Chair, De Lange Conference VII
Director of Sustainability, Facilities Engineering and Planning Department, Rice University; Associate Director, Center for the Study of Environment and Society http://sustainability.rice.edu http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~cses/cses.html
C. H. (Herb) Ward, Co-Chair, De Lange Conference VII
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~envi/xWARD.HTML
8:45 am
Mayoral Welcome (15 minutes)
Introduction of Mayor of Houston: Allen Matusow is the academic affairs director at the Baker Institute
and the William Gaines Twyman Professor of History at Rice University.
He specializes in 20th century U.S. history and has written or edited
five books, including "The Unraveling of America: A History of
Liberalism in the 1960s" and "Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars
and Votes." Matusow is currently writing on the world and Jimmy Carter. http://www.bakerinstitute.org/personnel/administrative-staff/amatusow/?searchterm=Matusow
Mayor Bill White, has served as Mayor of Houston since January 2004. White received national recognition for his quick-thinking and innovative response to the needs of New Orleans residents fleering Hurricane Katrina. White’s successes as Mayor include neighborhood water sewage improvements, a reform of the city’s pension fund, cutting property tax rates, and pinpointing areas of high crime to curb criminal activity. (The Mayor’s participation in the conference is based on his present availability.)
http://www.houstontx.gov/mayor/index.html
9:00 am
Mayors Panel: Provided via partnership with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (three 20 minute talks plus a 30 minute moderated panel)
Introduction of Mayors: Allen Matusow, Academic Affairs Director, James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy
First mayor: Antanas Mockusis a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and
politician who served as Mayor of Bogotá for two terms. He frequently
used humorous initiatives, such as hiring 20 mimes to make fun of
traffic violators, to improve city life. Under his leadership Bogotá
saw improvements in water, security, sewage, and traffic. http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.11/01-mockus.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2066545.stm
Second mayor: Mustafa Syed Kamal is Mayor of Karachi, Pakistan. As one of the major
ports of South Asia, Karachi has become a leading industrial,
commercial and financial hub of Pakistan. In a recent interview with
NPR, Kamal says he want to reshape his sprawling, dirty city once known
for its green, leafy parks. In order to provide maximum services to the
people, emphasis has been placed on the development and improvement of
environmental conditions for the betterment of general public. The
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Geneva has granted
ISO certification 9001 to City Government Karachi for providing best
services to its citizens. http://www.karachicity.gov.pk/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91071685
Third mayor: Shuki Forer is the Mayor of the City of Rehovot, located in the center
of Israel, south of Tel Aviv. Having welcomed immigrants from Poland,
Yemen, Russia, Ethiopia, Morocco, the former Soviet Union, and North
America, Rehovot is known as a city of newcomers and a community where
people actually get along with each other. It is also recognized as a
City of Science and Culture, and is Israel's citrus capital. http://www.rehovotisrael.com/city.html http://www.rehovotisrael.com/index.html http://people.forbes.com/profile/yehoshua-shuki-forer/28690
10:30 am
Break (30 minutes)
11:00 am
Natural Tendencies and Natural Limits, Part 1 (two 30 minute talks plus a 15 minute Q&A session)
William E. Rees teaches at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. He originated the concept of the ecological footprint analysis, discussed in his book, Our Ecological Footprint. He is presently supervising several eco-footprint projects ranging from the sustainability implications of globalization to getting serious about urban sustainability. http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/faculty%20profiles/rees.htm
Robert Bruegmann is Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. His most recent book is Sprawl: A Compact History. http://www.robertbruegmann.com/biography.html
12:20 pm
Lunch (1 hour)
1:20 pm
Natural Tendencies and Natural Limits, Part 2: Water, Energy, and the City (two 30 minute talks plus a 15 minute Q&A session)
Perry L. McCarty is the Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Stanford University. He is a pioneer in the development and understanding of biological and chemical processes for the safe supply and treatment of water and was the recipient of the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize. http://www-ce.stanford.edu/faculty/mccarty/
Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace Wilson Fellow; Associate Director, Rice Energy Program, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Her research focuses on oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy including energy science policy, and energy economics. Jaffe served as a member of the reconstruction and economy working group of the Baker/Hamilton Iraq Study Group, as project director for the Baker Institute/Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Strategic Energy Policy, and as a principal advisor to USAID’s project on Options for Developing a Long Term Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry. http://www.bakerinstitute.org/personnel/fellows-scholars/ajaffe
Globalization and the Transforming Metropolis (30 minute talk plus a 10 minute Q&A session)
Saskia Sassen is the Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006), and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She wrote a lead essay in the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture Catalogue. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/globalthought/people/FacultyMembers/SaskiaSassen/index.html http://www.columbia.edu/~sjs2/
3:25 pm
Break (15 minutes)
3:40 pm
The Stratified City: Ethnographic and Demographic Challenges (30 minute talk plus a 10 minute Q&A session)
Elijah Anderson is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at
Yale University. He is one of the nation’s most influential scholars in the field of
urban inequality, a respected and accomplished sociologist of the black
urban community. His most recent book is Against the Wall: Poor,
Young, Black and Male. http://www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/pages/anderson/ http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=2390
4:20 pm
Do Cities Need a Middle Class? (30 minute talk plus a 10 minute Q&A session)
Joel Kotkin is Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California, and Senior Fellow with the Center for an Urban Future in New York City. An internationally recognized authority on global, economic, political, and social trends, he is the author of The City: A Global History. http://www.joelkotkin.com/bio.htm
5:00 pm
Adjourn Day One Sessions
5:30 pm
Reception
6:15 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm
After-Dinner Keynote: Sustainability in Action – A Better Way (45 minute talk plus a 15 minute Q&A session)
Ray C. Anderson is Founder and Chairman of Interface, Inc. Named one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment in 2007, he has led his carpet manufacturing company nearly 50 percent towards its Mission Zero, the company’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment by the year 2020. http://www.interfaceinc.com/who/founder.html http://www.interfaceinc.com/
TUESDAY
Day Two: Building Better Cities. The second day will focus primarily on solutions, from
the scale of the pedestrian on a sidewalk to that of the entire metropolis.
8:30 am
Welcome
Michael Emerson, Richard Johnson, and Herb Ward, Chairs, Rice University
8:40 am
Opening Keynote: Strategies of Hope
(45 minute talk plus a 15 minute Q&A session)
Cameron Sinclair is co-founder and executive director of Architecture
for Humanity, a seven-year-old charitable organization that promotes
architecture and design solutions to humanitarian crises and provides
design services to communities in need. He is co-editor of Design Like
You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises. http://www.architectureforhumanity.org http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sinclair.html
9:40 am
Break (20 minutes)
10:00 am
Design Frameworks for Sustainable and Humane Cities (two 30 minute talks plus a 15 minute Q&A session)
Gary Lawrence, Principal, Urban Strategies Leader, Arup, and Strategic Advisor,
Dongtan Eco-City, provides thought leadership for strategic urban
development throughout the firm’s 70 global offices. With roots firmly
planted in the Pacific Northwest, Gary turned the first shovel of dirt
on the development of Microsoft’s campus as Redmond City Manager. Then,
as Planning Director for the City of Seattle, he led development of
"Toward a Sustainable Seattle," the first sustainability-focused
municipal comprehensive plan in the world. http://www.arup.com/sustainability/people.cfm?pageid=4923 http://www.streamkeeper.org/LID%20Bios/glawrence_%20bio.htm http://blip.tv/file/1417462
David Crossley is President and Founder, Houston Tomorrow, an
organization that explores urban issues and informs the discussion
about growth in the Houston Gulf Coast region. The Institute has led
the Livable Houston/Smart Growth Initiative in the Houston since 1998 http://www.houstontomorrow.org/
11:15 am
Movement and Access (two 30 minute talks plus a 15 minute Q&A session)
Catherine L. Ross, nationally recognized transportation expert, is Director of the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has been published extensively in the fields of urban planning, transportation planning, and public participation and has served on the Executive Committee as a senior policy adviser to the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board. http://www.cqgrd.gatech.edu/about/ross.php http://www.coa.gatech.edu/crp/facstaff/Ross.htm
Antanas Mockus is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician who served as Mayor of Bogotá for two terms. He frequently used humorous initiatives, such as hiring 20 mimes to make fun of traffic violators, to improve city life. Under his leadership Bogotá saw improvements in water, security, sewage, and traffic. http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.11/01-mockus.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2066545.stm
12:30 pm
Lunch (1 hour)
1:30 pm
Designing Ecocities (30 minute talk plus a 10 minute Q&A session)
Ken Yeang is principal of the UK firm of, Llewelyn Davies Yeang (and
its sister company in Asia, T .R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd.),
specializing in environmental design concepts for ecologically
responsive large buildings and sites. He pioneered the passive
low-energy design of bioclimatic skyscrapers and is author of Eco
Skyscrapers. http://www.ldavies.com http://www.trhamzahyeang.com
2:10 pm
Snapshots of Success: Urban Spaces (30 minute talk plus a 10 minute Q&A session)
Fred Kent is Founder and President of Project for Public Spaces, a New York City-based non-profit organization that advocates the creative and thoughtful use of public spaces in cities. Each year he and his staff train 10,000 people in Placemaking techniques. He is one of the foremost thinkers in livability, smart growth, and the future of the city. http://www.pps.org/info/aboutpps/staff/fkent
2:50 pm
Break (20 minutes)
3:10 pm
Planning for the Sustainable Metropolis (three 30 minute talks plus a 20 minute Q&A session)
Lars G. Lerup is Dean of the Rice University School of Architecture and
a 2003 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished
Professor. He is currently working on a new book that examines the
consequences the city's relentless growth and expansion has had on
various natural systems and how those consequences will affect the
future of the city. http://arch.rice.edu/modules/indexmac.php
Larry Beasley is Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning at the
University of British Columbia and Founding Principal of Beasley and
Associates, an international planning consultancy. A former Director of
Planning for the City of Vancouver, he was recognized for his leading
role in transforming Vancouver’s downtown into a more livable
community. He is a special advisor on city planning to the government
of Abu Dhabi. http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/faculty%20profiles/beasley.htm
Gary Lawrence, Principal, Urban Strategies Leader, ARUP, and Strategic
Advisor, Dongtan Eco-City, provides thought leadership for strategic
urban development throughout the firm’s 70 global offices. With roots
firmly planted in the Pacific Northwest, Gary turned the first shovel
of dirt on the development of Microsoft’s campus as Redmond City
Manager. Then, as Planning Director for the City of Seattle, he led
development of "Toward a Sustainable Seattle," the first
sustainability-focused municipal comprehensive plan in the world. http://www.arup.com/sustainability/people.cfm?pageid=4923 http://www.streamkeeper.org/LID%20Bios/glawrence_%20bio.htm http://blip.tv/file/1417462
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn Day Two Sessions
5:30 pm
Reception
6:15 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm
After-Dinner Keynote (45 min talk plus a 15 minute Q&A session)
Majora Carter simultaneously addresses public health, poverty
alleviation, and climate change as one of the nation’s pioneers in
successful green-collar job training and placement systems. She
founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to achieve environmental
justice through economically sustainable projects informed by community
needs. Her work has garnered numerous awards and accolades including a
MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, one of Essence Magazine’s 25 Most
Influential African-Americans in 2007, and one of the NY Post’s Most
Influential NYC Women for the past two years. She is a board member of
the Widerness Society, and hosts a special national public radio series
called “The Promised Land” (thepromisedland.org). Her work now
includes advising cities, foundations, universities, businesses, and
communities around the world on unlocking their green-collar economic
potential to benefit everyone as President of the Majora Carter Group,
LLC. http://thepromisedland.org/ http://www.majoracartergroup.com/press
WEDNESDAY
Day Three: Lifelines of the Sustainable Metropolis: Water, Infrastructure, and Hope
8:30 am
Welcome
Michael Emerson, Richard Johnson, and Herb Ward, Chairs, Rice University
8:35 am
The City’s Infrastructure: Solutions for the Present and the Future (two 30 minute talks plus a 20 minute Q&A session)
William J. Mitchell is Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and directs the Media Lab’s Smart Cities research group. He is the author of City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn and Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City. http://web.media.mit.edu/~wjm/ http://cities.media.mit.edu/
Volker Hartkopf, Professor of Architecture. Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University, is currently leading the Building of Power Plant (BAPP) project, which has been selected by the US Congress as the National Test-bed for Advanced Technology in Building. The 6,500 m2 project will be realized on the Carnegie Mellon Campus. http://www.cmu.edu/iwess/people/volker-hartkopf.html
9:55 am
Break (15 minutes)
10:10 am
Future Water Management (30 minute talk plus a 10 minute Q&A session)
Alexander Zehnder is Past President of the ETH Board, a Swiss scientific research institution in sustainable environment and energy, information technology, and nanotechnology; and former Director of the Federal Institute for Water Resources and Water Pollution Control in Switzerland. He is author of Soil and Groundwater Pollution: Fundamentals, Risk Assessment and Legislation. http://archiv.ethlife.ethz.ch/e/articles/campuslife/ethtag06.html http://www.ethrat.ch/content/newsflash.php?language=en
10:50 am
Communities of Faith, Cities of Hope (two 30 minute talks plus a 20 minute Q&A session)
Wayne L. Gordon is Founding Pastor of Lawndale Community Church in Chicago and Chairman and President of the Christian Community Development Association, through which he has played a key role in numerous community development initiatives. He is the author of Real Hope in Chicago. http://www.urbanministry.org/ccda/board-members http://lawndalechurch.org/bio.html
Harvey Clemons, Jr. is pastor of Pleasant Hill Ministries located in the heart of Houston’s Fifth Ward community. Reared in Houston, Texas in the Fifth Ward, he is a builder of people's lives and their communities. The work of ministry and comprehensive neighborhood revitalization is the underlying focus and driving force for him as pastor, teacher, leader of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and Chairman of the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation. http://www.pleasanthillministries.com/contactus.htm
