Sustainable Visions: Strategies for Philadelphia

Paul Brophy, principal with Brophy & Reilly, and Raymond Gastil, Director of City Planning, Manhattan, will discuss the opportunities and challenges cities face when bridging the gaps between design and implementation. These two experts will explore the value of design and innovation as well as the policy implications that would enable those design visions to be successfully realized.

4:00 pm - URBAN VOIDS proposal presentations
6:00 pm - Reception
6:30-8:30pm - Forum

In this special two part program, the public is invited to hear the five finalist teams from the international ideas competition URBAN VOIDS: grounds for change present their proposals at 4 pm. Presenting teams include

Ecosistema Urbano (Madrid)
Front Studio (NY)
Jill Desimini (Boston)
Mathew Langen (Boston), and grand winner
Waterwork, the Philadelphia team of Charles Loomis, Chariss Mcafee, Gavin Riggall and Juliet Geldi.
The teams will also take part in the evening panel. (This work along with the other 215 proposals submitted to the competition can be seen at www.landvisions.org).

URBAN VOIDS: grounds for change is part of the three phased program- Philadelphia LANDVISIONS, launched by City Parks Association with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Claneil Foundation, the Samuel S. Fels Fund and the Office of housing and Community Development (OHCD). City Parks Association worked closely with a Core Team of organizational partners, including the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and The Reinvestment Fund.

The Urban Sustainability Forum

The USF is more than just a monthly series of presentations featuring the best local, national and international experts in many different fields.

It is, beyond that, a place where people gather, exchange information, and network--all with the goal of making Philadelphia the greenest, most livable and most sustainable city in America.

The Forum is a collaboration of many organizations, including the Academy of Natural Sciences, the PA Environmental Council, the Delaware Valley Green Building Council, Penn Future, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and government agencies such as the PADEP, the EPA, the DVRPC, and the Philadelphia City Planning Commission--among many others.

The Forum has helped bring some of the most exciting speakers and events Philadelphia has seen in a long time -- including the world's most sustainable mayor, Jaime Lerner from Brazil; USGBC Chair Sandy Wiggins; Philly's young sustainable leaders; and Philadelphia's mayoral primary candidates to talk about how they would make Philadelphia a more sustainable city.

Join us as we work to develop a vision and a plan for a sustainable Philadelphia! USF events are free and open to the public, and are generally held in the evening on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Academy of Natural Sciences.

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