09.05.2024 | "Climate Migration"

Presented by Elisabeth Infield, Professor of Regional Planning, and Elizabeth Brabec, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst

This is a recording of Elizabeth Brabec's presentation. Click here for slides of Elisabeth Infield's presentation, "Insights for Receiving Communities: ​Understanding US Climate Migration."

 

09.12.2024 | "Koalas and Stupid Planning"

Presented by Adrienne Keane, Lecturer, Researcher and Practicing Urban Planner

Environmental sustainability remains elusive and there is an imbalance between urban growth, biodiversity and the systems that support all life. This lecture explores strategic planning’s contribution to the problem by using a case study in south-west Sydney, Australia where 1700 residential lots in the 1970s were approved on and near significant ecological values including the endangered Koala.

09.19.2024 | "A Look at the Women in the Etchings of Frank A. Waugh"

Presented by Annaliese Bischoff, Professor Emerita of Landscape Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst

In the twentieth century Frank A. Waugh was one of the most influential writers and advocates for horticulture, landscape design, and conservation, though he is not well known today.  Late in life he took up etching so he could represent trees in his penultimate book to popularize tree appreciation for everyone- men, women and children. In these etchings, beyond the trees, he represented three little known women who factored into his life- his wife, his eldest daughter and the long-term cleaning lady. Through the window of the etchings, more understanding about all of their important lives can be gleaned.  

09.26.2024 | "What is a 'Third Place' and Why do They Matter?"

Presented by Karen Christensen, Writer, Publisher, and Research Associate, Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Christensen is coauthor of the forthcoming new version of The Great Good Place

The term “third place” was coined in 1989 by sociologist Ray Oldenburg (1932-2022) in The Great Good Place, meaning happy gathering places that are neither home nor work. Karen Christensen corresponded with Oldenburg for 20 years before meeting him, and he left her the job of writing a sequel to his landmark book. Christensen suggests that third places are the key to solving climate change, loneliness, and political polarization, and brings a cross-cultural perspective to issues including diversity, economics, and public transit.

David Leatherbarrow, UPenn

10.03.2024 | "Architecture without Delay"

Presented by David Leatherbarrow, Professor Emeritus, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

Three distinct kinds of architectural time are outlined at the start of this study: the time of the world, its seasons and cycles, the time of the human body, as it moves through built and unbuilt settings, and the time of the architectural project, from conception to construction, then renovation to ruin. This talk describes and interprets not only the things that buildings and their settings themselves do to sustain experience, but more importantly the work’s participation in the wider environment that enlivens it. 

This Zube Lecture was part of the Quickness: On Rhythms of Time in Contemporary Architecture, Five College Symposium.

No Recording Available.

10.10.2024 | "Appealing for Local Control and Spatial Inequality"

Presented by Alejandra Reyes, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California Irvine

Several limitations have thwarted the implementation of California housing law for over fifty years. This research sheds light on the evolution of municipal-state relations at a period of reform by analyzing the contentious implementation of state housing law in Orange County, California, a region of concentrated affluence. 

10.24.2024 | "What Do Planners Need to Know?"

Presented by Henry Renski, Professor of Regional Planning and Department Chair, and Camille Barchers, Assistant Professor of Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst

City and Regional Planning seems to perennially suffer from an identity crisis.  Answering basic questions such as “what is a planner?” or “what does a planner do?” can be a challenge. Camille Barchers and Henry Renski take a “planner is what planner does” perspective, by using a large database of online job postings to study the types of skills and knowledge that planning employers look for in new hires.

 

10.31.2024 | "Climate Justice Design and Advocacy for Community Resilience"

Presented by Chingwen Cheng, Director of the Stuckeman School, Pennsylvania State University

Climate Justice Design offers a framework to integrate justice theory and engage communities in co-designing climate actions that meet community needs and enhance capacity to cope. Educators and practitioners play a crucial role in advocating for justice design to strengthen community stewardship, fostering resilience, climate justice, and sustainable development.

Mark Delouvrier

11.14.2024 | "Don’t Forget Landscape Architecture is a Practice"

Presented by Marc Delouvrier, Landscape Architect and Founder of LANDmarc

Marc Delouvrier provides an in-depth exploration of the evolution of landscape architecture and showcases Delouvrier's work spanning 20 years of practice, highlighting how it all began and the key projects that significantly influenced the founding of his landscape architecture firm, LANDmarc.

No Recording Available.

11.21.2024 | "The Influencers"

Presented by Abra Lee, Director of Horticulture at Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA. Lee is a storyteller and author of the forthcoming book Conquer The Soil: Black America and the Untold Stories of Our Country’s Gardeners, Farmers, and Growers.

Black Americans have long created their own cultural blueprint for how gardens and nature can be used as a means of remembrance, inspiration, and creativity. In this conversation, Abra Lee journeys back in time to discuss historic legacies and give insight into some extraordinary people and the plants they used to bring joy into their lives.