Friday, April 12
8:00-9:00
Registration (light continental breakfast will be served)
9:00-9:15
Mark Lindhult & Robert Ryan, co-chairs: Celebrating the Global Greenway Planning
Movement
9:15-9:30
Provost James Staros: Welcome Address
9:30-10:15
Jack Ahern, FASLA, Vice-Provost for International Programs: Landscape Planning in the
Century of the City: an international perspective
10:15-10:45
Break and Refreshments
10:45-12:00
Panel Session #1
Urban Waterways
Effects of Detention for Flooding
Mitigation under Climate Change
Scenarios—Implication for
Landscape Planning in the
Charles River Watershed,
Massachusetts, USA
Chingwen Cheng, Elizabeth A.
Brabec, Yi-Chen E. Yang,
Robert L. Ryan
The Role of Landscape in
Achieving Water Sensitive Cities:
the importance and potential of
landscape architecture in
influencing change towards
sustainable water use in
Australia’s urban environments
Josephine Neldner
Our Way: Urban Waterway
Restoration and Participatory
Processes
Sharon Moran, Meredith
Perreault, Richard Smardon
Green Infrastructure / Ecology
Synthesizing An Integrated
Green Infrastructure Establishing a Conceptual
Planning Framework in the
Western United State’s
Urbanizing Communities
Richard LeBrasseur
Urban Greenways & Ecology
The Knowledge and Attitude to
Species Invasion Issue in
Greenway Planning: A Study in
China
Fan Fu, Zhao Caijun, Lin Guangsi
Synergistic design: Detailing the
benefits of a Green
Infrastructure approach in a
Western Australian Landscape
Simon Kilbane, Richard Weller,
Richard Hobbs
Opportunities for greenways
through development of
ecological and green corridor
landscape planning in Hungary
Attila Csemez, Judit Bárcziné
Kapovits
Assessment matrix based
evaluation of ecosystem services
in relation to land use change
scenarios
Gergő Gábor Nagy, Veronika
Magyar, Sándor Jombach, László
Kollányi, Balázs Duray
A New Approach - Dealing with
the Challenges of Rapid
Urbanization in Hainan, China
Yanhong Tang, Yuezhong Chen
Tree alleys – specific green
corridors and their
disappearance from cultural
landscape of Nitra region
Katarína Kristiánová
12:00-2:00
Lunch
Christina Castel-Branco
2:00-3:15
Panel Session #2
Landscape Planning Strategy
Understanding the Evolution of
Landscape Planning Strategy in
China: From "Fragmented"
Urban Green Space System to
Regional Greenway Network
across Cities
Di Lu, Dr. Zhiming Li, Jianguo Lu
The Portuguese National
Ecological Reserve – a mapping
tool for Landscape Planning
Pena, Selma B., Magalhães,
Manuela R, Abreu, M. Manuela
Landscape in the spatial planning
system of European countries
Kisztina Filepné Kovács, Ágnes
Sallay, Sándor Jombach, István
Valánszki
Scenario Planning for the Boston
Metropolitan Region:
Exploring Environmental and
Social Implications of Alternative
Futures
Robert L. Ryan, Paige S. Warren,
Craig Nicolson, Chingwen Cheng,
Rachel Danford and Michael
Strohbach
3:15-3:45
Taking the Highline: Elevated
parks, evolving neighborhoods,
and the ever changing
relationship between urban and
nature
Hélène Littke, Ryan Locke, Tigan
Haas
Urban Greenway Planning
Urban Landscape of informal
settlements as a catalyst in
developing the informal sector,
The case of Egypt
Doa'a Mahmou, Nezar A. Kafafy
Cultural Heritage Panel
Ethan Carr moderator
China’s Eco-cities: Why not a
Huge Success to Achieve
Sustainability
Kai Wang, Qiuzhuo Zhang, Liang
Chen, and Wei-Ning Xiang
Industrial Heritage at Risk: How
National Heritage Areas Have
Preserved the Landscapes of
American Labor and Why this
Capacity is Now in Jeopardy
Eleanor Mahoney
The Emergence and Significance
of Heritage Areas in New York
State and the Northeast
Paul M. Bray
The Role of Sustainable
Greenways in Achievement of
Improving the Quality of Life
(Tehran’s greenways as a case
study)
Fatemeh Shahani
Green structure under pressure
– about knowledge in planning
processes. Case study from Oslo
Kine Halvorsen Thorén and IngerLise Saglie,
Break and Refreshments
National Heritages Areas:
Evaluating Past Practices as a
Foundation for the Future
Brenda Barrett
The Hudson River Valley
Greenway and Beyond: How a
Word Can Change the Way We
Think About Our Land
David S. Sampson
3:45-5:00
Panel Session #3
Landscape Planning
Reuse of the post mining
landscape under the condition of
integration urban-rural
development -In the case of
mining region Xuzhou China
CHANG Jiang, TIAN Hai-peng,
GAO Xiang-guan
Here comes the boom: shale gas,
landscapes and an ecological
planning imperative
Brian Orland, Timothy Murtha,
Megan Prikockis, Danielle Sette,
Christopher Maurer, Michael
Humes, Emily Carlson, Elliot
Shibley, Michelle Zucker and
Brianna Hammond
Legible Greenways: Enhancing
the Visual Coherence and
Imageability of the Western
Sydney Parklands
Catherine Evans, Linda Corkery
Revisiting urban brownfield
regeneration and beyond within
the lens of green infrastructurebased design and management
Adnan Kaplan, Koray
Velibeyoğlu, Çiğdem Kılıçaslan,
Merve Özeren, İrem İnce
İzmir
Greenways & Agriculture
Opportunities for Greenways
development in the south wine
region of Ensenada, Baja
California, Mexico
Yolanda Torres, Rosa Contreras,
Jesús Serrano
Ecological Urban
Greenway Ecological Planning
and Design for a Sustainable City
in China
Yan WANG & Yongbin Sun
Integrating agriculture in
greenways: a methodology for
planning connected urban and
peri-urban farmlands in a
Mediterranean city
Luca Barbarossa, Daniele La
Rosa, Riccardo Privitera
Link Detroit! A New Paradigm for
Detroit’s Non-Motorized
Community
Neal J. Billetdeaux, Henry L.
Byma
Chelas Valley and Coina
Wetlands Agricultural Parks
Magalhães, Manuela R.; Silva,
João; Leitão, Manuel; Saavedra,
Andreia; Müller, Ana
Ankara – Sakarya Greenway
Planning
Prof. Dr. Mukerrem Arslan, Prof.
Dr. M. Emin Barış, Prof. Dr. Elmas
Erdoğan, Assist.Prof.Dr. Zuhal
Dilaver
The Art of Managing Long and
Skinny Places: A Case for
Regional Collaboration
Jim Klein
5:00-6:30
Reception and Social Hour
6:30-8:30
Dinner and Fabos Award Ceremony
Teresa Anderson: Fabos Medalist Speaker
Infrastructure, Landscape
Ecology and Urbanism; Linking
Theoretical and Practical
Frameworks in Design and
Delivery Process: A Case of
Melbourne’s EastLink
Mahdi Khansefid
Saturday, April 13
8:30-9:00
Registration (light continental breakfast will be served)
9:00-9:45
Dr. Wei-Ning Zhang: With Black Swans and Wicked Problems We Live and Plan
9:45-10:15
Break and Refreshments
10:15-11:45
Panel Session #4
Green Infrastructure
Potentials and limitations of
implementing linear infiltration
systems on urban streets
Frank Sleegers
Assessing public health benefits
through green infrastructure
strategies in medium-sized cities
in Spain. Case study: La Coruña.
Dr. Pedro Calaza-Martínez, Dr.
Luis Ribeiro
The Importance of Urban
Corridors in Improving the Green
Infrastructure in Cities: Case
Study Gaziantep-Turkey
Nasim Shakouri, Mehmet Emin
Green Infrastructure,
Greenways, and Trail Planning:
Frameworks for Sustainably in
Maryland
David. N. Myers
Verdeacqua: An Environmental
Project for Gallarte, a town Near
Milan
Arch. Davide Sironi
11:45-1:15
Lunch
Greenway Planning
Greenways: An American Model
Takes Root in Belarus
Dr. Valeria Klitsounova
Green space typologies in the
city of Porto – Portugal:
Identifying nodes and links for
greenway planning.
Paulo Farinha-Marquesa,
Cláudia Fernandesa, José M.
Lameirasa, Filipa Guilherme
Isabel Leal, Sara Silva
Factors Influencing Greenways
Use in Italy: Definition of a
Method for Estimation
G. Senes, R. Rovelli, D. Bertoni, L.
Arata, N. Fumagalli, A. Toccolini
Challenging Scarcity: Exploring
Opportunities for Creating Green
Spaces & Greenways within Arid,
Compact and Dense Built
Environments, the Case of Cairo
City, Egypt
Nezar A. Kafafy
Impressions from a Lost World:
The Coneecticut River Valley
Trackway Plan: Preliminary
Concepts
Annaliese Bischoff
Greenway Design
The Chinese Characteristics in
the Planning and Design of
Guangdong Greenway
He Fang, Suo Xiu, Li Hui
Shadley
Edessa Greenways: a land use
planning tool promoting
sustainable development in
Northern Greece
Alexander Kantartzis, Martha
Schwartz, Spiro Pollalis, Nina
Chase
Aqueduct Trail Network
Development in Metro Boston
David Loutzenheiser, MAPC
Tom Lindberg, MWRA
Joel Barrera, MAPC
1:15-2:30
Panel Session #5
Watershed / Wildlife / Ecology
A Watershed Event:
Communicating Landscape
Processes
JeanMarie Hartman and Donna
Webb
Incorporating Wildlife
Conservation within Local Land
Use Planning and Zoning: Ability
of Circuitscape to model
conservation corridors
Virginia L. Batha and Dr. Toru
Otawa
The Portuguese National
Ecological Network - A mapping
proposal
Natália S. Cunha; Manuela R
Magalhães
Campus
Connecting the “Big Easy”:
Lessons from the people
surrounding the Lafitte
Greenway in New Orleans,
Louisiana
Phillip Koske
Greenways as an Integrative
Framework for Campus Green
Infrastructure: A Stormwater
Masterplan Vision for the
University of Connecticut
Kristin Schwab
Scientific / Technical
Scientific approaches for
Designing Ecological Networks: a
Case Study for the Faunal
Species of Inland Wetlands of
Lower Saxony, Germany
Rosa Contreras
Optimal Routing of Wide
Corridors
Dana Tomlin
A New Park as Sustainable
Strategy for the Green Network
of Brescia, Lombardy
Luca Maria Francesco
“But how do we get to the
Greenway?”—a multidisciplinary, multi-jurisdiction,
multi-modal strategy to increase
connections to the Charles River
Basin
Cynthia Smith, Phil Goff
Christopher Greene
New Villages: Planning and
Design of Compact Growth
Centers- Shaped by Natural,
Cultural and Recreational
Greenways
Peter Flinker
2:30-3:00
Break and Refreshments
An Evaluation of Open Space
Quality in Suburban Residential
Communities: A Comparison of
Neo-traditional, Cluster and
Conventional Developments
Elizabeth Brabec
3:00-4:30
Panel Session #6
Social
The way towards landscape
integrity Integration of social
framework: The intangible valuebased landscape planning
Áron Szabó
The Mill River Greenway
Initiative
Reid Bertone Johnson, Sohpia
Geller, John Sinton, Neal Bastek
Greenways for a Greater GoodAn Indian Perspective
Samir Mathur, Sandeep B.
Menon, Priyadarshini Kacker
Principles of Universal Design for
Urban Greenways- The case of
“Milan University Sustainable
Campus” (Italy)
Alessandra Rizzi, Giulio Senes
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Grad students
Water-related Ecosystem
Services from Green
Infrastructure
Meilan Chen, Ying Cao,
Zhangkan Zhou
Greenway Planning & Design
Soft mobility towards ecological
sustainability in Lisbon
Metropolitan Area – case study
of Almada Municipality
Manuela R.MAGALHÃES, Duarte
MATA, Ana MÜLLER
A vision for future development
in historic district
Yiwei Huang
G27: Greenway patterns and City
Planning
Archana Sharma
Retrofitting Cities: A Case Study
in Baltimore - Exploring New
Trends in Urban Greenways
Jim Brown
Civilizing Ecological Landscape
through Assimilation of Urban
Parks and Vacancy: A Case Study
Baltimore, MD
Elizabeth Carroll
A Half- Century of Community
Effort to Protect Nantucket’s
Specialness
Jim Lentowski
Exploring the significance of
greenway concept, to assist
landscape planning and design:
contributions to theory from
African, Asian and European case
studies
Dr. Luís Ribeiro, Arch. Teresa
Dias, Arch. Catarina Viana
Oasis Greenways: A New Model
of Urban Park within Street
Right-of-Ways in Dorchester,
Massachusetts
Tom Bertulis, Peter Furth
4:30-4:45
Closing Comments Thanks.
Sunday, April 14
8:00
Field Trip