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 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 (keep checking back as we complete the inventory)
- The Future of Transportation and City Structure
- Transportation and the layout of cities and their hinterlands or bioregions is a single design — whether the cities are compact and diverse taking up little land or scattered over large areas consuming enormous swaths of land in uniform patches of development and consuming prodigious quantities of fuel to maintain. Jeff Kenworthy, world expert on urban form and function from Perth, Australia, can tell us how the various designs impact energy, climate, pollution, walkability, bikeability, transit, prosperity and every other aspect of city and town life. Fiona Ma, CA State Assembly Majority Whip, Chair of the Legislative high Speed Rail Caucus, sees rails linking us to a healthy future. Wulf Daseking, Director of Planning, City of Freiburg, Germany, probably the world's second most frequently cited city, behind Curitiba, for leading us to an ecologically healthy future state of cities, has a tale to tell — and it's the tale of a better future for all of us. Moderator: Peter Albert, Deputy Director, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
- 1. Jeff Kenworthy, Transportation and Land Use Expert
- 2. Video of California's proposed High Speed Rail project
- 3. Wulf Daseking, Director of Planning, City of Freiburg, Germany (shortened version of slideshow presented)
Economy, Business and City Building- How does one gather the designs and money, channel the investment into, and control the process such that any large part of the ecocity gets built? Eco-hotels could be cores of eco-communities or set precedents for mixed-use communities in building design, management, maintenance and influence. Whole new cities could be built as ecocities and china is working on this right now. How are they doing? Can cities shrink their demands of nature while growing? Is urban transformation a safer notion than urban growth? — ecologists will remind us that, large though it is, the Earth is a finite environment. Steve Pinetti, Sr. Vice President, Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, can tell us about the green goals and bottom line in the world of hotels. Shanfeng Dong, Chief Planner at Shanghai International Investment Corporation, which is building several whole new cities in China, brings us up to date another goals, efforts, and accomplishments and ZhenHua Qian, architect and an leader in the Ecology Construction Specialized Committee of Shanghai Architectural Society reports on government facilitation of ecocity development throughout the country, and especially in the Shanghai region. Moderator: Lesley Nagy, Your TV 20
- 1. ZhenHua Qian
- Ecocity Mapping
- It's not the road map but the place map that leads to a healthy future. Getting the city down to one tenth the energy demand and one fifth the land area is possible with a place map to the future: ecocity mapping. Wendy Brawer from new York City, creator of the Green Map System has popularized knowing where you are, ecologically speaking. Ian Hanou of NCDC (Native Communities Development Corporation) has been using GIS mapping and other techniques for urban forestry and water planning, from his Colorado Spring, Colorado offices. Richard Smith has been Ecocity Builders' lead map maker making maps designed for guiding shifting city infrastructure into a very different future. Moderator: Richard Register, Ecocity Builders, Conference Co-Convenor
- 1. Richard Smith, Ecocity Builders
- 2. Wendy Brawer, Green Maps
