The Dynamic City

Friday April 1st and Saturday April 2nd, 2016

Are preservation, diversity, and affordability mutually exclusive in urban America? How can neighborhood identity and community be preserved while engaging with the opportunities of globalization? What should be saved in attempts to build and maintain a fair and equitable city?

The Dynamic City: Futures for the Past sought to answer these questions and more, gathering preservationists, academics, planners, architects and mayors to examine the challenges of celebrating historic cities in a modern urban environment.

Day 1 – Friday April 1st, 2016

Welcoming Remarks

· Graham Wilson – Director, Initiative on Cities and Professor of Political Science, Boston University
· Carl Nold – President and CEO, Historic New England
· Daniel Bluestone – Director, Preservation Studies Program and Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University

Panel 1: Maximizing Gateway Cities’ Legacies

Moderator:
· Karyn Gilvarg – Executive Director, City of New Haven Plan Department

Panelists:
· Anne Gatling Haynes – Director of Transformative Development, MassDevelopment
· Ian Jakus – Assistant Project Manager, Transformative Development Initiative, MassDevelopment
·Mark Melnick – Director, Economic and Public Policy Research, University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute
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Panel 2: Case Studies – Holyoke, MA, and Jamaica Plain, MA

Moderator:
· James Alexander – Principal, Finegold Alexander Architects

Panelists:
· Alex Morse – Mayor of Holyoke, MA
· Intiya Isaza-Figuroa – Development Project Manager, Home City Housing
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· Max Page – MS Design Program Director and Director of Historic Preservation Initiatives, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
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· Aaron Ahlstrom – PhD Candidate, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
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Lunchtime Keynote: Mayor Joe Anderson

Keynote Speaker:
· Mayor Joe Anderson – Mayor of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Panel 3: Envisioning Urban Housing

Moderator:
· Albert Rex – Partner, MacRostie Historic Advisors

Panelists:
· Daniel Abramson – Associate Professor, Art History and Director, Architectural Studies, Tufts University
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· Dave Traggorth – Founder and Principal, Traggorth Companies
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· Sheila Dillon – Chief of Housing and Director, Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston
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Panel 4: Conceptualizing a Sustainable Future

Moderator:
· Brian Swett – Director, Cities and Sustainable Real Estate, Arup, and Visiting Fellow, Boston University Initiative on Cities and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future

Panelists:
· Jim Newman – Founder and Principal, Linnean Solutions
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· Shaun O’Rourke – Green Infrastructure Director, Trust for Public Land
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·Arlen Stawasz – Resiliency Strategist, Perkins+Will
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· Kathryn Rogers Merlino – Director, Center for Preservation and Reuse, University of Washington
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Afternoon Keynote: Maurice Cox

· Maurice Cox – Director of Planning, City of Detroit and Former Mayor, Charlottesville, VA
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Day 2 – Saturday April 2nd, 2016

Welcoming Remarks

· Daniel Bluestone – Director, Preservation Studies Program and Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University

Pecha Kucha Presentations

Moderator:
· Sally Zimmerman – Senior Manager of Historic Preservation Services, Historic New England

Presenters:
· Charlette Caldwell – MS in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
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· Dorothy Clark – MA in Design Studies, Historic Preservation, Boston Architectural College
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· Jessica Cresanti-Daknis – JessicaCDesign
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· Kathleen Mahoney – MA in Public History, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
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· Patrick Powers – MA in Preservation Studies, Boston University
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· Linda E. Williams – MA in Architecture, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
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Panel 5: Contesting Civic and Public Spaces

Moderator:
· Daniel Bluestone – Director, Preservation Studies Program and Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University

Panelists:
· Diana Wylie – Professor of History, Boston University
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· Andrew Lang – MA in History of Museum Studies, State University of New York – Oneonta
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· Jacqueline Brandon – MA in the History of Women and Gender, New York University
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Mayors Roundtable

Moderator:
· Robin Ried – Manager, Urban Planning, Bloomberg Associates

Panelists:
· Karl Dean – Former Mayor, Nashville, TN and Mayor-in-Residence, Boston University Initiative on Cities
· Kimberley Driscoll – Mayor, Salem, MA
· Annise Parker – Former Mayor, Houston, TX and Fellow, Harvard University Institute of Politics
· Dan Rivera –Mayor, Lawrence, MA

Panel 6: Revitalizing Commercial Zones

Moderator:
· Marianne Paley Nadel – Owner and Manager, Everett Mills Real Estate and Founding Executive Director, Groundwork Lawrence

Panelists:
· Anthony Flint – Director of Public Affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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· Meredith Wilson – MS in Historic Preservation, Clemson University
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· Taylor Cain – PhD Candidate, Sociology, Boston University
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Panel 7: Commodifying Heritage

Moderator:
· George Born – PhD Candidate, American and New England Studies, Boston University

Panelists:
· Paimaan Lodhi – Vice President of Urban Planning, Real Estate Board of New York
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· Emily Goldman – PhD Candidate, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

Closing Remarks

· Daniel Bluestone – Director, Preservation Studies Program and Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Boston University