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Detroit Speaker Series: Dialogue on Detroit Future City Framework

Jan
31
2013

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• Speaker: Dan Pitera, June Thomas, Kwamena Mensah, Khalil Ligon
• Host Department: Semester In Detroit
• Date: 01/31/2013
• Time: 06:00PM - 08:00PM
  
  
• Location: Ann Arbor Room, U-M Detroit Center 3663 Woodward Avenue, Detroit MI
  
  
• Description:

  How should the city (re)imagine itself? Join us in the Ann Arbor room of the U-M Detroit Center to learn about the latest proposed Framework - and others' responses - at the first Detroit Speaker Series event of the year!

  Part 1. Framework Overview

  Dan Pitera - Director of Civic Engagement, Detroit Works Project Long Term Planning | Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Detroit Mercy | Executive Director, Detroit Collaborative Design Center

  Part 2. Responses and Dialogue

  Kwamena Mensah - Board President and founding member, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network | Michigan Food Policy Councilmember | Detroit Future City Taskforce Member

  June Thomas - U-M Taubman College Centennial Professor of Urban and Regional Planning | Author of Redevelopment and Race (1997) | Co-Editor of The City After Abandonment (2012)

  Khalil Ligon - LEAP (Lower East Side Action Plan) Manager, Warren Conner Development Coalition

  Semester in Detroit Associate Director Craig Regester will moderate the event, which is co-sponsored by the U-M Detroit Center.

  Light refreshments will be served.

  Thank you to all our supporters!