Private Urban Leaders Forum reception with John Kriken, urban design architect with SOM, at SPUR's old home 312 Sutter, now the Book Club of California. Presentation immediately to follow downstairs at the World Affairs Council.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Reception: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street, Floor 5
Today, Asian cities are experiencing extraordinary population growth and working to improve air quality, access to clean water, adequacy of agricultural land, and overall economic strength in order to build livable and sustainable environments. There is much we can learn from their success and failures.
John Kriken, an urban design architect with SOM, has been with the company for over 40 years and founded their international urban design practice. He serves on UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design faculty as an adjunct professor and in 2010 completed a book titled, City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty First Century. Kriken has received over thirty national design awards. His work focuses on make livable and sustainable cities and has been engaged in Asia’s development since the mid-1980s. He will share examples and ideas drawn from Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Jiaxing, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Saigon.