Saturday seminar: lessons from Vancouver
If you missed Commerce Lexington’s trip to Madison,Wis., last week – or even if you went – there’s another opportunity to see what metro Lexington can learn from other cities.
The University of Kentucky is sponsoring a seminar Saturday, ”Planning for Livability and Sustainability: Vancouver’s Lessons for Lexington and the Bluegrass,” at the Hilary J. Boone Center on Rose Street.
The seminar looks at Vancouver, British Columbia’s success over the past two decades at reviving its downtown and becoming an international model for urban planning, livability and sustainability — and how the lessons Vancouver has learned could be applied to Central Kentucky.
The seminar begins at 9 a.m. with remarks by UK President Lee Todd. Featured speakers are: Ian Smith, former senior urban planner in Vancouver and current project director of the Winter 2010 Olympic Village; Mark Roseland, Simon Fraser University geography professor and director of the SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development; and Rick Balfour, an architect and director of the Vancouver Metro Planning Council.
The seminar — organized by Ernest Yanarella, a UK political science professor, and Richard Levine, a UK architecture professor — is sponsored by the Kentucky Environmental Council, Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection and Todd’s office. The session is a followup to a March 2007 seminar at the Kentucky Horse Park, and it is being coordinated with Bluegrass Tomorrow’s InnoVision2018 project.
All sessions Saturday are free and open to the public.
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