Public Produce - A Lecture by Darrin Nordahl
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 23 Mar 2011 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm |
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| Location: | 416 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Peter Mauro |
| Phone: | 515-451-8099 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Darrin Nordahl is an urban designer for the city of Davenport. As a transplant to Iowa with roots in California, his work is thus a mélange of Left Coast idealism and Midwest pragmatism. Nordahl's two books--Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture (Island Press, September 2009) and My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation in America (Center for American Places, April 2009)--exemplify this unique blend of thought.
Nordahl has been featured on such national media as The Diane Rehm Show and the Huffington Post, as well as television, radio, magazines and newspapers across the country. He is an active keynote speaker and conference panelist on ways that innovative urban food concepts can add vitality to city spaces. He reasons that thoughtful design of city spaces can help improve the quality of the environment, our health, and our social connections.
Nordahl holds a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from the University of California at Davis and a master's degree in urban design from UC-Berkeley. He has taught in the City and Regional Planning Department at UC-Berkeley and in the landscape architecture program at UC-Berkeley Extension.
This lecture is cosponsored by the CRP Graduate Club and Landscape Architecture Graduate Club.