Please join Portland Society of Architects and The Urban Land Institute at a forum to identify and discuss strategies for achieving a sustainable Portland.

How do we:
? Significantly reduce our carbon footprint?
? Create a broad-based urban economy?
? Adapt to changing climate, new forms of transportation and higher densities?
? Promote innovation and flexibility in planning and design in the public realm?

Many groups are examining the challenges that face Portland. This open forum will be the first in a series of meetings that brings these forces together to envision the City's future.

Keynote speaker Gary Lawrence heads ARUP?s Urban Strategies practice. As a former Planning Director for Seattle, he developed the first sustainability-focused municipal comprehensive plan in the world. He is an internationally known expert on communities that address human need and environmental limitations. He is also a forceful, provocative and entertaining speaker.

Keynote Speaker

As Urban Strategies Leader for Arup, Gary Lawrence provides thought leadership for strategic urban development throughout the firm's 70 global offices. With roots firmly planted in the Pacific Northwest, Gary turned the first shovel of dirt on the development of Microsoft's campus as Redmond City Manager. Then, as Planning Director for the City of Seattle, he led development of "Toward a Sustainable Seattle," the first sustainability-focused municipal comprehensive plan in the world.

National and international recognition of his work followed and Gary has subsequently served as advisor to the Clinton Administration's Council on Sustainable Development, the UN's Habitat II, the US Agency for International Development, the Brazilian President's Office, the British Prime Minister's Office, the European Academy for the Urban Environment in Berlin, and the Organization for Economic and Community Development (OECD) (Paris) on matters of sustainable development and environmental policy.

See Mr. Lawrence's full biography at http://www.arup.com/s...

Panelists:
James I. Cohen, Partner, Verrill Dana and Member,Portland City Council
Dr. Charles Colgan, Chair, Community Planning and Development Program;
Professor Public Policy and Management at The Muskie School
Morris Fisher, President, CBRE/The Boulos Company
Jessica Tomlinson, Director, Public Relations Maine College of Art
Colin Woodard, Journalist and author of "The Lobster Coast", a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine

The forum will be moderated by Fred Kramer, Chair of the Boston Council of the Urban Land Institute.

Full details at http://www.portlandar...