Meeting of the Minds Conference: The Innovations We Need for More Sustainable Cities
Elizabeth Deakin discusses Mega-cities, Mega-regions, and the Automobile. Robert Cervero follows with a talk on Alternative Futures: Urban Design and Metropolitan Growth. The presentations are followed by a joint Q&A session with Deakin and Cervero.
Meeting of the Minds is a two-day leadership conference convened by the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, with the support of Toyota. The conference focus is on the new technologies, emerging urban designs and cleaner fuels.
Bio
Robert Cervero
Robert Cervero teaches and conducts research in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has been an advisor and consultant on transport projects in many countries, most recently in China, Colombia, Brazil, the Philippines, and Indonesia. His current research is on: travel impacts of suburbanization in China through Berkeley's Volvo Center for Future Urban Transport; influences of built environments on public health in Bogotá; land-use and environmental impacts of freeway removal in San Francisco and Seoul, Korea; traffic generation effects of transit-oriented development; and transit value capture in Hong Kong.
Over the past five years, Professor Cervero has been a regular instructor of transportation planning courses for the National Transit Institute and the World Bank Institute. In 2004, he was the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research. He also won the 2003 Article of the Year award from the Journal of the American Planning Association.
Professor Cervero serves on the editorial boards of Urban Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Literature, and Journal of Public Transportation; chairs the National Advisory Committee of the Active Living Research Program of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation; and was recently appointed to the National Research Council committee of Development, Vehicle, and Energy. Over the past year, he has given keynote addresses at conferences in Shenzhen, São Paulo, Salvador, Bali, Brisbane, Montreal, and Seoul.
Elizabeth Deakin
Elizabeth Deakin is Director of the University of California Transportation Research Center and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, where she also is an affiliated faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group and the Master of Urban Design group. She is co-director of the UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative, which involves nearly 100 faculty members from 12 departments. Deakin's research focuses on transportation and land use policy and the environmental impacts of transportation. She has published over 100 articles, book chapters, and reports on topics ranging from environmental justice to transportation pricing to development exactions and impact fees. She currently is conducting a study benchmarking transit-oriented development and developing TOD guidelines for the Federal Transit Administration.
Among her recently completed projects are the development of transit investment policy in for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Board, a system plan for express bus services for the San Francisco Bay Area, and the development of a plan for revitalization of San Pablo Avenue from Oakland through El Cerrito, CA. Other recent studies investigate the efficacy and acceptability of transportation pricing strategies and the emissions reduction potential of transportation demand management measures.
Deakin served as chair of the Congressionally-mandated National Academy of Sciences' Advisory Board on Surface Transportation-Environmental Research, which recommended a new transportation-environmental research program that was recently enacted into law. She has been active in a number of government posts including city and county transportation commissions and state advisory boards.
Deakin holds degrees in transportation systems analysis and political science from MIT as well as a law degree from Boston College.