Friends of the Parks

Friends of the Parks and the Active Transportation Alliance present a series of free lectures at the Chicago Cultural Center.  This series, part of the Chicago Cultural Center’s Creative Living in the City programming, focuses on issues and initiatives affecting the quality of life in Chicago, such as innovative park design, urban development, and environmental conservation.

The one-hour lectures, which are free and open to the public, begin 12:15 p.m. in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater, 77 E. Randolph St.

Walkable Urbanism and the Green Future of Cities

April 8th, 12:15p.m. 

As America struggles with sustainability, cities can play a central role in reducing our carbon emissions. Discover the importance of healthy urban places that enable residents to walk, bike and take transit. Learn how cities are going green with high-performance infrastructure and buildings combined with planning strategies that reduce driving. Two national leaders in the sustainable urbanism movement will address why urbanism is a key solution and how cities and urban planners are building a greener future.

Carol Coletta is president and CEO of CEOs for Cities, a national network of urban leaders co-founded by Mayor Richard Daley and headquartered in Chicago.

Doug Farr is one of the nation’s leading experts on sustainable development and author of Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature, a guidebook that visualizes sustainable urbanism as the normal pattern of development in the United States.

Presented by the Active Transportation Alliance and Friends of the Parks as part of the Chicago Cultural Center’s Creative Living in the City lecture series.