[CSSD] MARCH 18 LEWIS SEMINAR CANCELED

[Rick Burnham]

CSSD NewsletterBecause of speaker schedule conflicts, the March 18 seminar has been canceled. We will attempt to re-schedule the topic at a later date.

 
        
     
      March 2010 
      March 18 - Randall Lewis Seminar Series
      Planning for a Safer California:

      How the State Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Will Affect Local Planning 
       
      Earthquakes, wildfires, floods. And with climate change, the possibility of tsunamis, levee failures, drought and landslides. California is a multi-hazard state, and these kinds of events are likely to increase in coming decades.

      How does California’s Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan impact suburban areas, and how will cities and counties respond to climate adaptation (climate action plans), local hazard mitigation plans/safety elements and the emergence of state-produced 200-year flood plan maps?

      These are some of the issues that will be discussed at the March 18 Randall Lewis Seminar Series by Dr. William Siembieda, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Planning, Design and Construction Institute at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. The seminar will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Conference Room B, UCR Extension Building, 1200 University Ave., Riverside. (See MAP).

      Dr. Siembieda will discuss what role the Regional Blueprint effort can play in making suburbs safer; why “mitigation planning” is becoming an important and useful concept; and how suburbs can integrate their efforts with state agencies, such as the Department of Water Resources.

      Before joining the Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo campus, Dr. Siembieda was a Professor of Planning and Director of the Center for Research & Research Development at the University of New Mexico. He has held academic posts at the UC San Diego; Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; and Visiting Professorships at MIT and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

      Current research projects involve sustainable urban management practices in San Francisco, Montreal, Canada and Puebla, Mexico.

      Dr. Siembieda’s research interests include land use policy, large scale land planning and design, disaster mitigation planning, strategic planning, and the feasibility, policy, and housing finance for low income communities. In 2008, he was a Research Scholar at the Kyoto University Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, focusing on Japanese pre- and post- disaster planning systems. 

      He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley; and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from California State University, San Diego. He earned a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA.

      His recent publications include: A Survey of Contemporary Master Planned Communities, Real Estate Review (co-authored with Jerry Sturmer). 38:1 Spring; Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brazilia. 2009. (Co-authored with Vicente del Rio). University Press of Florida; The California Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan. 2007. (Co-author with Ken Topping and Michael Boswell); Urban Risk Reduction's Role in Sustainable Development http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/archives/2006/mar06/mar06d.html 2006. Natural Hazards Observer. Vol. XXX, No 4, March.

      The seminars are free of charge. 

      If you plan to attend, please RSVP to:

      Judy Swineford or (951) 827-7945 to ensure adequate space and refreshments.   


     
      About Randall Lewis 
      Randall Lewis is well known for his innovative approaches to planning, designing, and marketing residential communities as Executive Vice President of the Upland-based Lewis Group of Companies. 

      He has been Secretary of the Los Angeles County Citizens Planning Council, Director of the Home Builder's Council, National Director of the National Association of Home Builders, and President of the Inland Empire Arts Foundation.

      He was inducted into the California Building Industry Association Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the Sales and Marketing Council's MAME Awards Marketing Person of the Year. He is a long time ULI member as well as a Governor of the ULI Foundation.

      He serves on several executive boards, including the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research.He received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College. 


     
      Center for Sustainable Suburban Development
      University of California, Riverside 
      B101 Highlander Hall Riverside, CA 92521
      Phone: 951.827.4103

      Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research 

      To unsubscribe from this e-mail list, click here 
     
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/cssd/attachments/20100310/86a281bc/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 114536 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/cssd/attachments/20100310/86a281bc/attachment-0003.jpe 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 182920 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/cssd/attachments/20100310/86a281bc/attachment-0004.jpe 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 17430 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/cssd/attachments/20100310/86a281bc/attachment-0005.jpe