2011 L'Enfant Lecture on City Planning and Deisgn with Marilyn Taylor

2011 Lecture
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
San Francisco


Planning, Policy, and Poetics:
Reviving Investment in Transportation and Infrastructure in
America
Marilyn Taylor
Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design


The 2011 L'Enfant Lecture was delivered by Marilyn Taylor, who
became dean of The School of Design at the University of
Pennsylvania in October 2008 after practicing as an architect and
urban designer at Skidmore Owings & Merrill.


Taylor spoke on "Planning, Policy, and Poetics: Reviving
Investment in Transportation and Infrastructure in America." Can
we, as designers and planners, help rekindle a sense of
stewardship for the future and rebuild the public will needed to
stimulate investment? What does this mean for planners and,
perhaps more importantly, for planning education?