Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:00pm
Feinstein Providence
80 Washington St, University of Rhode Island-Providence Campus, Providence, RI 02903, USA
The Feinstein Providence campus will conclude its yearlong series of urbanism programs with a forum entitled “Where 195 Used To Be: A Community Exploration." It will feature a discussion of ideas about the future of Providence with members of the Route 195 Redevelopment Commission and planning professionals.
Participants in the forum will be Umberto Crenca, co-founder and artistic director of AS220; Marshall Feldman, director of research and academic affairs at the URI Center for Urban Studies and Research; Colin Kane, chairman of the Route 195 Redevelopment Commission; Michael McCormick, assistant vice president for planning, design and construction at Brown University; Bonnie Nickerson, director of long-range planning for the City of Providence; and Michael Van Leesten, president of The Van Leesten Group.
A special pre-forum presentation entitled “Entrepreneurial Universities and Urban Economic Development: Hype or Hope?” will begin at 4 p.m. The speaker will be Marc Levine, professor of history, economic development and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and director of the UWM Consortium for Economic Opportunity.
Free and open to the public
Kat Quina
401-277-5468
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