Special Presentations
The Pittsburgh Story
Thursday, October 17, Breakfast Program
The remaking of Pittsburgh from "Steel City" to "Knowledge City" in the 25 years since the 1988 Remaking Cities Conference is a powerful case study of post-industrial transformation. The four panelists, all of whom were participants in the transformation, discussed successes and failures, as well as lessons learned.
Donald Carter
Director, Remaking Cities Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Tom Murphy
Senior Fellow, Urban Land Institute, and former Mayor, City of Pittsburgh
Richard A. Stafford
Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon
University, and former Executive Director, Allegheny Conference on
Community Development
Stanley A. Lowe
President, Economic Opportunity Planning Association and former Director, Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh
Morton Coleman, Moderator
Director Emeritus, Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh
Designer Democracy: 21st Century Governance in the Post-Industrial City
Friday, October 18, Breakfast Program
During the last 25 years, democratic reinvention at the local level has helped redefine how we think about urban development. The civic sector has emerged as a powerful force in community-generated success stories. The 1988 Remaking Cities Conference played a part in that legacy, placing emphasis on citizens’ roles in the post-industrial city. Today, a host of creative policy and process innovations are occurring across the US, UK, and Europe. This plenary explored current challenges and the state-of-the-art practices in public engagement, and its implications for the future of post-indusrial cities.
William Bell
Mayor, City of Birmingham, AL
Harris Steinberg
Executive Director, PennPraxis, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Don Edwards
President, Justice and Sustainability, LLC
Charles Campion
Partner, John Thompson & Partners
Joel Mills, Moderator
Director, AIA Communities by Design