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"The DNA of Cities" Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series
Author and educator AP Hurd presented "The DNA of Cities" as part of Western Washington University #39;s Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series at 3 pm on Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 in Communications Facility Room 125 on the Western campus. How cities are evolving has been at the center of much conversation lately, and a lot of that conversation in the design world is deterministic in nature: "What should the end product look like?" Yet cities are a product of genetic and environmental factors, and they change over time. Perhaps our design focus should be less on the end product and more on thinking about cities as a design system. This talk will explore the impact of zoning, financial structures, energy prices, entrepreneurialism and architects on the emergent design of our cities. What are the levers for change, and how can individual people make a meaningful difference? In addition to her work at Touchstone Corporation, Hurd is a Runstad Fellow in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, where she teaches a graduate seminar on development economics. Her recent research has focused on environmental metrics for urban and regional policy in China and in the US She has worked on numerous environmental policy initiatives at the state and local level and recently published "The Carbon Efficient City" with the University of Washington Press. Hurd is a board member of NAIOP Washington, Forterra and Friends of the Seattle Waterfront. She has received ...From:wwuniversityViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:02:47More inEducation

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