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Columbus Metropolitan Club - Re-Wiring the Modern City: Transportation's Impact on Civic Spaces
The automobile has arguably been the prime factor in shaping and developing recent urban growth in American cities. This had much to do with scattered, thinly developed suburbs, government-insured mortgages and a subsidized highway system. However, as a result of environmental pollution often caused by automobile exhaust, stunning levels of congestion and the rising cost of gasoline, it is likely that over the next half-century mass transit will become a potent force in shaping and reshaping cities.
Can you retrofit a sprawling middle-American metro area to be a vibrant, attractive, transit-friendly region? How do European cities compare? Are streetcars the answer for Columbus?
Borja Ferrater is an architect and urban planner from Spain who works extensively in mixed use design and planning in Europe and the United States. He's in Columbus to serve as a juror for Columbus Re-Wired, an international ideas competition sponsored by AIA Columbus that asks competitors to look closely at Central Ohio's transportation initiatives and imagine how they might transform city spaces, lifestyles and sustainability.
Can you retrofit a sprawling middle-American metro area to be a vibrant, attractive, transit-friendly region? How do European cities compare? Are streetcars the answer for Columbus?
Borja Ferrater is an architect and urban planner from Spain who works extensively in mixed use design and planning in Europe and the United States. He's in Columbus to serve as a juror for Columbus Re-Wired, an international ideas competition sponsored by AIA Columbus that asks competitors to look closely at Central Ohio's transportation initiatives and imagine how they might transform city spaces, lifestyles and sustainability.
September 7, 2007