Jonathan Barnett, professor of practice in city and regional planning, and director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania, delivers the lecture “City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives” at 6 p.m. Friday. The lecture is presented in the Art and Architecture Building Auditorium, Room 2104.
Barnett is an architect and planner as well as an author of numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of city design. He has been an adviser to the cities of Charleston, S.C., Cleveland, Kansas City, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Pittsburgh and others in the United States and China. He also has been an adviser to the National Park Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His recent work on large-scale urban development and redevelopment projects includes a 2,500-hectare planned community in Cambodia, an urban design plan for the city of Omaha, Neb., and a transit-oriented design plan for the City of Xiamen in China. He also recently worked on a resort plan in Busan, Korea, and a plan for the Cumberland riverfront in downtown Nashville.
Barnett’s earlier work includes reuse plans for the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the Treasure Island Naval Station in San Francisco, and for the former air force base in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The lecture is presented by the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
