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“World-Class Streets for a World City: a conversation with DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Department of City Planning Chief Designer Alexandros Washburn, and NYU professor Hilary Ballon”

November 25, 2009

Breakfast starts at 8:00 am.  Conversation runs from 8:30 am to 9:45am.

295 Lafayette Street.  The Puck Building, 2nd Fl.

(Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue)

New York, NY 10012-9604

Join us for a discussion led by Professor Hilary Ballon with Commissioner Jeanette Sadik-Khan and Alexandros Washburn, the Department of City Planning Chief of Design, on New Visions for the City’s Streets. 

For decades, the city restricted itself to a utilitarian design approach to its streets.  Commissioner Sadik-Khan and the City's Chief of Design, Alex Washburn, are bringing new and more sophisticated approaches to the challenge of urban design in constrained fiscal times.   Together with Professor Hilary Ballon, they will discuss recent and upcoming proposals to establish new guidelines for creating world-class city streets that are tailored to the varied and complex conditions of New York City.  Listen in on a conversation among these leading thinkers and practitioners about the unique opportunities that are generated when limited resources, pressing infrastructure needs, and a passion for great design merge together to create new and invigorating public spaces for New York City.