Initiative for Adaptive Buildings and Cities: Roundtable Two, Reforming Cities and Towns
The School of Architecture's Initiative for Adaptive Buildings and Cities is our answer to this call. During the spring 2024 semester, we are presenting five Faculty Roundtable discussions, led by Research Associate Carl Elefante. The second and third sessions investigate two scales of intervention, urban and building, to overcome the barriers to progress embedded in modern-era biases. The first pre-recorded presentation is by Patrice Frey, Senior Advisor to Main Street America, focusing on the challenges facing America’s town centers and the place-based approach to revitalization fostered by the National Main Street Program. The second is by Michael Grove, Chair of Landscape Architecture at Sasaki, showing recent large-scale urban redevelopment projects illustrating Sasaki’s work on carbon accounting and resource-production approach to planning and landscape design.
TIME STAMPS
[5:27] Main Street by Patrice Frey, Senior Advisor, Main Street America
[16:00] Productive Cities by Michael Grove, Chair of Landscape, Sasaki
[29:11] Discussion
For more information on the Initiative for Adaptive Buildings and Cities and the following roundtable sessions, visit https://architecture.nd.edu/research-... .
Main Street – by Patrice Frey, Senior Advisor, Main Street America
For a decade, Patrice Frey served as President and CEO of Main Street America, a non-profit devoted to revitalizing historic commercial districts and town centers through place-based capacity building. Prior to Main Street, Patrice was the Director of Sustainability for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and led its Preservation Green Lab which conducted some of the most consequential research into the value of historic preservation as a factor in sustainable development. https://www.mainstreet.org/home
Productive Cities – by Michael Grove, Chair of Landscape, Sasaki
Like the Fayetteville 2030 Food City plan prepared by the University of Arkansas a decade ago, Michael Grove has led Sasaki’s planning of large-scale urban districts that integrate food production and food culture. During this period Sasaki has also developed analytical tools to quantify greenhouse gas emissions into their planning and landscape design. https://www.sasaki.com/people/michael...