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Manhattan on the Move: A Transportation Agenda for a Growing City

3:39 PM EDT on August 30, 2006

WHERE: Columbia University, Alfred Lerner Hall (115th Street and Broadway)

SCHEDULE:

8 - 9 a.m.: Registration

9 - 9:05 a.m.: Welcome

9:05 - 9:25 a.m.: Remarks by Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer

9:30 - 10:30 a.m.: Keynote Speaker: Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Colombia

10:30 - 10:45 a.m.: Break

10:45 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Breakout Sessions

12 - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch (on your own)

1:15 - 2 p.m.: Breakout Sessions Continued

2:15 - 2:30 p.m.: Break

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.: Plenary Session (Report from moderators)

Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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