Opportunities to Shape Tomorrow’s Urban Villages

Friday, January 15th, 2010 - 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM The Assistance League of Pasadena, 820 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91106 A Five-Dollar donation for a Continental Breakfast, will be appreciated According to California’s Department of Finance the State is projecting Los Angeles County’s population to expand by over 2.5 million between 2010 and 2050, an increase of nearly twenty-five percent (25%). Where will this influx of people live, work and play? How will they get around their individual urban villages? As well as, How will they commute between these villages, for work and play? This month’s Forum will be a discussion about the multitude of opportunities for architects to get involved with transportation and land use concerns, on a local level, as they relate to tomorrow’s urban villages. Not only in regard to the tangible needs of providing housing and other types of structures, required of these villages, but also, the intangible needs of those who will live, work and play within them. Architects are well suited to blend the individual infrastructure components that make up a particular urban village, into the whole, by working within its context. Thus, preventing a village from the losing its identity, or more importantly — the loss of its individuality. The speakers this month are: Julianna Delgado, M.Arch, PhD, AICP is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she specializes in sustainable and transit-oriented urban design and development. She Chairs the City of Pasadena's Transportation Advisory Commission, as well as, Pasadena's Design Commission. Dr. Delgado holds an M.Arch and PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley. She was also a member of the AIA's first Sustainable Design Assessment Team in California. Mark Yamarone, is the Transportation Administrator for the City of Pasadena’s, Department of Transportation. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from University of California at Irvine, and also has earned a master’s degree in urban planning from UCLA. Mr. Yamarone will be discussing opportunities for architects to get involved with the City of Pasadena, particularly regarding land use and transportation issues. AIA Pasadena & Foothill