The 2010 Urban River Restoration and Cities of the Future conferences will be held together March 7-10 at the Boston Marriot Cambridge.
The Urban River Restoration conference will focus on the role of “revitalized urban rivers and waterfronts within the context of two major trends: an increased focus on sustainable practices to benefit the environment, and a population shift back to cities, which leads to a renewed emphasis on a livable urban environment.”
Participating organizations include:
- New England Water Environment Association
- Water Environment Research Foundation
- American Rivers
- Environmental & Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (EWRI)
- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
- New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission
Learn more and see the conference brochure.
The Urban River Restoration conference will also be held in conjunction with the Cities of the Future conference, enabling interdisciplinary networking across both conferences. The Cities of the Future conference will “bring together a diverse group of practitioners, researchers and policy-makers who share a vision of an improved urban landscape for future generations. The conference will host interdisciplinary discussion required to create sustainable urban infrastructure that will meet the challenges of the 21st century and the interdependent engineered and natural systems that will characterize Cities of the Future.”
Participating organizations include:
- International Water Association
- New England Water Environment Association
- Water Environment Research Foundation
- Environmental & Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (EWRI)
- National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association
- American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
- New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission
- American Planning Association – Massachusetts Chapter
Learn more and see the conference brochure.
Keynote speakers for the joint conference include:
Paul Brown, AICP, Executive Vice President, Global Market Development, CDM. Technical Director, Neysadurai Centre for Integrated Water Resources and Urban Planning, Singapore
Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Lead Principal, Lower Don Lands Urban Design Plan and Don River Park, Toronto
Image credit: 2008 ASLA Analysis and Planning Honor Award. Port Lands Estuary: Reinventing the Don River as an Agent of Urbanism, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, New York, New York
