Kate Orff presents at Eco-Cities: Building Green on a City Scale

feb 4, 2009

ECO-CITIES: BUILDING GREEN ON A CITY SCALE
Panel discussion with Eric Sanderson, Hillary Brown, Ashok Raiji, Michael Wurzel, Gerard Evenden

Van Alen Institue
6:30 PM / Museum of the City of New York

Around the world, new “green” cities are being built from the ground up. What lessons do these ambitious projects have for the environmental retrofit of an existing city like New York—and vice versa? Moderator Eric Sanderson, landscape ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and founder of the Mannahatta Project, will lead a discussion on eco-cities with Hillary Brown of New Civic Works and founder of New York’s Office of Sustainable Design; Kate Orff of SCAPE and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation; and Ashok Raiji of ARUP, engineer on the Songdo City project in South Korea. They will be joined by Michael Wurzel and Gerard Evenden of Foster + Partners, architects of the Masdar project in Abu Dhabi. Presented in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York in conjunction with the exhibition Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City, and as part of Eric Sanderson’s Van Alen Institute-Social Science Research Council New York Prize Fellowship, Mannahatta 2409, on the long-term ecological future of New York.

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