Climate change and healthy cities

Upwind Downwind 2008: Climate change and healthy cities conference

The City of Hamilton and Clean Air Hamilton will be hosting the 5^th Biennial Conference, Upwind Downwind: Climate Change and Healthy Cities on February 25 and 26.

A free public lecture, WALK & BIKE FOR LIFE, will be held on February 25 at 7 pm at the Hamilton Convention Centre featuring Gil Penalosa.

Gil is a global thinker with various work experiences in Canada and Latin America in fields related to parks, recreation, urban planning, and active transportation. He is the Executive Director at Walk and Bike for Life, member of the Board of Directors of American Trails and the City Parks Alliance (USA), and the North American Chairman for International Sport and Culture.

In the late 1990s he was commissioner of parks, sports and recreation in Bogota Colombia where his accomplishments include shutting down 91 kilometres of city roads every Sunday to create the Ciclovia where over 1.5 million people now walk, bicycle, run and skate every week.

Visit http://www.cleanair.hamilton.ca/updown/udconf.asp for more information about the conference. Note that there is a reduced registration fee for students ($30)

Check out some videos of the transformation in transportation in Bogota under Penalosa's direction.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/01/28/streetfilm-brt-in-bogota/ and
http://bcgp.blogspot.com/2007/12/ciclovia.html

Show us some L-O-V-E!!!

Do you need a good talking to?

Here are some upcoming lectures happening at the school next week:

Inaki Abalos of Abalos Herreros Architects
Monday February 11th @ 12pm

This Spanish firm has worked on a wide range of buildings, with a focus on Verticalism and the relationship between the Natural and Artificial in architecture and landscape.

There are a number of books by, and about, Inaki Abalos in our library that deal with technological innovations in architecture.

Reinhold Martin of Martin Baxi Architects
Tuesday February 12th @ 7pm

Martin is a director at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and co-founded the architecture journal Grey Room.

His books Organizational complex: Architecture, media and corporate space and Multi-national city: Architectural itineraries can be found in the library.