The Livable Cities Symposium seeks to bring together faculty and staff from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with local government and community leaders to share the research and work conducted towards building livable cities. In the light of ongoing and increasing urbanization, climate change and the need for sustainable health, Livable Cities will connect the rigor of university research to city and community needs. UW-Madison has the opportunity to establish itself as a world leader in generating imaginative, flexible, sustainable and integrated components of Livable Cities that will deliver health, economic opportunity and a rich quality of life in a rapidly changing world.
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Please take a moment to fill out this short questionnaire describing your work and interest in building livable cities.
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Registration is now CLOSED
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View the agenda below.
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The Livable Cities Symposium is part of a joint effort in coordination with the Global Health Institute.
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We’d like to enlarge and deepen that collective UW-Madison contribution, in part by making it more applied, but without sacrificing the teaching and basic research that define the University. Understanding how best to do that, what we have to work with in doing so, and who’s interested in helping and on what terms is the point of the exercise we now invite you to join. UW-Madison is well positioned to meet these challenges in an integrated campaign to imagine, design and prototype the sustainable city of the future – the Livable City – and redefine its relationship with the landscape around it.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The Pyle Center 702 Langdon Street
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| 8:00am | Registration and breakfast* |
| 8:30am |
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Welcome and Introductions n Joel Rogers, COWS & Paul Robbins, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies n |
| 8:45am |
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Why work with cities? The University Perspective: n Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University, Live from Portland, OR n |
| 9:45am |
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Why work with universities? The City Perspective: n Mayor Paul Soglin n |
| 10:15am |
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Break n |
| 10:30am | UW Projects Faculty Presentations: Group 1 |
| 11:30am |
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Special Presentation: n Jonathan Patz & Jamie Schauer, Global Health Institute n Carlos Dora, Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization n Live from the World Health Organization, Geneva n |
| 11:45am |
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Lunch n |
| 12:45pm | UW Projects Faculty Presentations: Group 2 |
| 1:30pm | Break |
| 1:45pm | UW Projects Faculty Presentations: Group 3 |
| 2:30pm |
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Modes of Community/University partnerships n |
| 3:30pm | Reception |
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*Breakfast, lunch, breaks included
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PARTNERS & ALLIES
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| Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies | Global Health Institute |
| Institute for Research on Poverty | |
| COWS | |
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