May 29, 2012
Updated: Hot Ticket: Enrique Peñalosa
Update: 5/29/12
For those who couldn't get in the room, a video of the presentation is now available from the good folks at Crank My Chain: http://www.crankmychain.com/enrique-penalosa/planning-cities-for-people-an-international-perspective-video_5ee3f1c62.html
Original Post: 5/1/12
Several local organizations have partnered to bring urban transportation rock star Enrique Peñalosa to Portland. Tickets are free, but limited. The only way to get tickets is to request them via e-mail, starting TOMORROW (Wed, May 2nd) at noon. Here are the details:
Enrique Peñalosa, respected speaker on urban planning issues, will be visiting Portland for a lecture on May 14th. There has been an overwhelming response for tickets and space is extremely limited for free general admission tickets. Tickets are being awarded to the first persons who e-mail upcevents@gmail.com starting TOMORROW Wednesday, May 2nd at 12:00pm. Quantity is limited to one ticket per person and per e-mail (requests for multiple tickets will not be honored).Your e-mail MUST include:
Subject line: Enrique Ticket
Body Text: First and Last Name, preferred e-mail, phone number, occupation/titleIf awarded, your ticket will be held at Will Call and be available for pick up in the theater lobby when doors open at 6:30pm. There may be standby seating at the event if you don't receive a ticket. Failure to claim your ticket by 6:50pm may result in forfeiture of your seat. NO LATE ENTRIES.
Event Details:
Planning Cities for People: An International Perspective
Monday, May 14, 2012, 7:00 PM
Ellyn Bye Studio-Gerding Theater at the Armory
128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland
Doors Open at 6:30pm and Close at 6:50pm
About Enrique:
Enrique Peñalosa is a leader in the urban field, whose vision and proposals have significantly influenced policies throughout the world. His advisory work concentrates on sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and quality of life; and the organizational and leadership requirements to turn ideas into projects and realities. He is also an accomplished executive, who has achieved positive results in diverse activities in which he has been involved.As Mayor of Bogota, Colombia, Peñalosa profoundly transformed the city of 7 million inhabitants into an international model for improvements in quality of life, mobility, equity and sustainability which has been awarded important international recognitions such as the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale and the Stockholm Challenge. Two of Peñalosa's accomplishments while Mayor were the installation of the TransMilenio bus rapid transit system and an extensive bicycle infrastructure network.
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May 26, 2012
The Top Ten Problems of purpose and need statements
While we await the announced "vision, goals, and objectives" for the Southwest Corridor project, recently approved by the project's steering committee, it is time to consider the Top Ten Problems of such documents. The purpose of a purpose-and-need statement (I'm...
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May 24, 2012
What would $2 billion of BRT look like?
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May 23, 2012
Crowdsourcing the Case for Cycling
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May 22, 2012
UPDATED: An update on the Fourth Plain BRT project
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May 21, 2012
Southwest Corridor BRT?
In the previous post, we noted that Metro had approved study for the Powell/Division corridor. A Metro planner indicated that the region in the future would be pursuing a less capital intensive strategy in the future, and hinted that the...
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May 18, 2012
Metro green-lights study of Powell/Division corridor, hints at broader BRT future.
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May 17, 2012
The catch-22 of bicycle safety
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Celebrating in SE
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Open Data Guide
Transit, both schedule data and real-time vehicle location (AVL - Automatic Vehicle Location) data, has been the poster child and first set of killer apps for open government data. Here's a nice survey article on the topic: http://wagner.nyu.edu/blog/rudincenter/open_data_guide/...
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May 16, 2012
Car-sharing and the RAND corporation.
Today, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post highlighted a RAND Corporation report claiming that car-sharing cuts back very little on energy consumption. One major flaw in the analysis: The conclusion is based on the principle that most car-share users are...
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