LIVING THE PLAN OF NASHVILLE 2010
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Wednesday 13 October 2010
Hilton Nashville Downtown
11:30 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Maurice Cox
Maurice Cox, nationally renowned expert on urban design, professor of architecture at the University of Virginia, and former Director of Design for the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), will deliver the keynote address at the Nashville Civic Design Center’s annual ‘Living The Plan of Nashville’ event on Wednesday, 13 October, 11:30 a.m. at the Hilton Nashville Downtown hotel.
Cox has long promoted the importance of intentional design in creating great cities. His talk will center on the role design plays in creating successful cities— healthy, sustainable, diverse, and economically vibrant. While in Nashville, Cox will also hold sessions for elected officials and developers/design professionals addressing strategies for promoting design excellence, and innovative ways to leverage good urban design into increased national attention for Nashville. Cox believes that good design is a basic democratic right, and views active citizen participation paired with the highest quality of architectural design, as one of the greatest catalysts for a city’s success.
Cox’s experience in design and city planning includes six years on the city council for Charlottesville, VA, as well as two years as mayor (during his mayoral term, Frommer’s Cities Ranked and Rated selected Charlottesville as the ‘Best Place to Live’ out of 400 cities in the United States and Canada). He also assisted in the founding of the Charlottesville Community Design Center in 2004.
Cox served as Director of Design for the NEA from 2007-2010. While there he ran the Mayor’s Institute on City Design working with hundreds of mayor’s across the country, including Mayor Karl Dean, and strongly promoted the work of Design Centers across the country. In 2009 he received the prestigious Ed Bacon Prize for Excellence in Urban Development for his exceptional contributions to the fields of architecture, city planning and design.
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Past Living the Plan Events
Past Living The Plan of Nashville Events
2009 Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Malec-McKenna, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Environment
2008 Keynote Speaker: Honorable Mayor Karl Dean. Metropolitan Nashville
2007 Keynote Speaker: Otis White, founder and president of Civic Strategies
2006 Keynote Speaker: Carol Coletta, president & CEO of CEOs for Cities
The Plan of Nashville Book Signing
The Plan of Nashville Unveiling
