Ecocity World Summit
- Conference Venues
- April 22-23
- Academic & Talent Scouting Sessions: UC Berkeley Extension South of Market Center, 95 Third Street (at Mission), San Francisco. 415-284-1081. www.unex.berkeley.edu
- April 24-26
- Ecocity World Summit Main Conference: Nob Hill Masonic Center, 1111 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108. 415-292-4702. www.masonicauditorium.com
Located atop Nob Hill in one of San Francisco's oldest and most celebrated neighborhoods, the Nob Hill Masonic Center is a versatile facility hosting a variety of events. Its intimate auditorium and convenient location have made it the concert hall of choice for performing artists. The cable car runs outside the front door, and the views are spectacular. There's no other facility in the city quite like it.
2008 Sessions Presentation Archive
- Here you will find a growing library of Ecocity World Summit Main Conference and Academic Sessions slideshows. We will be adding to this archive and updating it frequently over the next few weeks. We hope this archive will serve as a useful resource to those who attended Ecocity Summit 08, and also for those who were unable to attend but are interested in the information presented.
- FRIDAY, APRIL 25, MAIN CONFERENCE SLIDESHOWS pg 2 (keep checking back as we complete the inventory)
- City-Scale Ecocity Initiatives
- How about largely conceived projects embedded in government and local economics enough to have enormous potential and some very serious commitment already? How far can they go toward what we are introducing here as an “urban fractal” – a piece, yet a functional whole – within the city, or to actually transform the whole city by intent into an ecocity as thoroughly conceived as possible.
- Presenters: Jack Sylvan is Director, Joint Development, San Francisco Mayor's Office, and can tell us a great deal about the sustainability goals and process of development on Treasure Island, the former US Navy base. Peter Berg, the pioneering bioregional and ecological urban theoretician and activist from San Francisco has been invited to Bahia de Cariquez, Ecuador by civic leaders and welcomed by grassroots groups there, where they are trying out dozens of initiatives to help the city ecocityward. Aidan Hughes, Principal in the office of the design and engineering firm Arup in San Francisco is also working on base conversion planning at the former Concord Naval Weapons Center and on transportation development projects around the world. How “ecocity” can it get?
Moderator: Tim Beatly, University of Virginia, architecture professor, author.
- 1. Jack Sylvan, SF Office of the Mayor
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- Density and Equity
- Gentrification on one hand, or poverty and prejudice on the other - choose! Or is there another way? If the city of dense, diverse, pedestrian and transit centers is healthy as the conference organizers think, what's the design look like and how to make it equitable? By what layout, architecture, transport system and political/economic strategy? John Holtzclaw, Director of Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl Campaign, San Francisco, has been working on that challenge. Joining the conversation from the environmental health perspective we have Rajiv Bhatia, Director, Occupational and Environmental Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health, and also Jack Sylavn, Project Manager, Base Reuse and Development, San Francisco Mayor's Office who is the spokesperson for Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay and other base conversion strategies. Moderator: Kelly Kahn, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.
- 1. John Holtzclaw, Sierra Club
- 2. Rajiv Bahtia, SF Department of Public Health
- 3. Jack Sylvan, San Francisco Mayor's Office
2. Peter Berg, Planet Drum
3. Aidan Hughes, Arup
