Columbia Professor Kristina Ford to Speak about City Planning at Concordia's Books & Coffee Thursday, April 10
Apr. 9, 2014: Kristina Ford, professor of professional practice and international public affairs at Columbia University, will discuss her recent book, The Trouble with City Planning: What New Orleans Can Teach Us, at Concordia College's Sommer Center for Worship and the Performing Arts on Thursday, April 10, at 7:00 pm.
Winner of the Award for Distinguished Leadership from the Louisiana Chapter of the American Planning Association, Ford served as New Orleans's director of planning from 1992 to 2000 and chief of staff for New Orleans's deputy mayor in charge of public facilities, infrastructure, and community development from 2010 to 2011.
Her work with city planning both pre- and post-Katrina provides a unique perspective, and she uses her experience to illuminate the problems and possibilities facing city planners across the nation. Her book provides suggestions for how cities should be planned in the future.
Books and Culture proclaimed Ford's book "one of the best urban planning texts to come off the presses in the past decade . . . ."
Ford earned her PhD in urban and regional planning from the University of Michigan. A frequent speaker on urban affairs, she has appeared on CNN, BBC, and NPR. She has also contributed to the op-ed page of the New York Times and to Planning magazine.
Her research and teaching have taken her to a number of colleges and universities throughout the United States, including Columbia University, where she teaches the course Urban Policy and the Use of Land and the course Implementing Public Policy and Managing Outcomes.
Concordia's Books & Coffee series is made possible through the generous support from Friends of Concordia. Admission is free and no reservations are required.
For questions, please contact Ellen de Saint Phalle at
Picture here: The Books & Coffee announcement with the cover of Kristina Ford's book The Trouble with City Planning: What New Orleans Can Teach Us.
Photo courtesy Ellen de Saint Phalle, Director of Community Relations, Concordia College
