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New Yorkâ€™s Next Great Place – Governors Island Park Design Forum

Governors Island Alliance and the AIA New York Chapter, APA New York Metro Chapter and the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, in association with the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC) and Governors Island National Monument are pleased to invite you to a forum on the development of the parks and public spaces on Governors Island. The forum will feature discussions on design opportunities and challenges, the interaction of public and private spaces, and creative programming, at a time when GIPEC is launching its design competition for the Islandâ€™s parks and public spaces.

By Aaron Donovan

8:41 PM EST on January 6, 2007

Speakers:

Leslie Koch, President, GIPEC
Linda Neal, Superintendent, Governors Island National Monument
Robert Pirani, Executive Director, Governors Island Alliance
Welcome by Rick Bell, AIA NY Chapter

Panelists:

Laurie Olin, Olin Partnership
Jane Thompson, Thompson Design Group
Mark Strauss, FXFOWLE Architects
Moderated by Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association

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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