'City Building: A Conversation with SF Urban Planner John L. Kriken' March 15, 2012

Over half of Earth's population now lives in urban centers.
Few issues are more important in the years ahead.
In 2012 the TED prize was given not to a person but to an idea: the City.

John Lund Kriken is among urban planning's most prolific and recognized practitioners with more than thirty national and international design awards. His acclaimed book, City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century offers a tested vision in which the urban and natural co-exist in projects that are both local and as far removed as China, Vietnam, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America. A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and founder and partner-in-charge of Skidmore Owings & Merrill's San Francisco Planning Studio.

San Francisco-based writer/journalist and co-author of City Building, Richard Rapaport will bring his own design-related knowledge and iconoclastic take on city life to the wide-ranging conversation that will follow.
Agenda
6:30 to 7pm: Mixer with no-host bar
7pm to 8pm: Presentation, Conversation and Audience Q & A
8pm to 8:30: Continued conversation and book signing

Tickets available at the door and www.harvardclubsf.org "City Building" under Upcoming Events.

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