Announcing a new Meetup for Nerd Fun - Boston!

What: "Making Better Cities" with Boston Society of Architects @ BPL

When: December 17,[masked]:00 PM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Meetup Description: Making Better Cities
Rabb Lecture Hall,
Boston Public Library,
Copley Square, Boston, MA

Speaker: Rick Dimino

From the site for the "Boston Society of Architects" lecture series: http://www.architects.org/news/index.cfm?doc_id=60

"An urban designer and director of A Better City imagines Boston?s future as it is shaped by sustained private-sector advocacy of thoughtful development. Co-sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship Program at Harvard University".

About "A Better City (ABC)":
http://www.abettercity.org/about.html
"A Better City (ABC) is a nonprofit membership organization that provides the business and institutional leadership essential for ensuring progress and tangible results on transportation, land development, and public realm infrastructure investments that are vital to sustaining and improving the Boston area?s economy and quality of life.

"Building upon our successful work on the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) Project, also known as the 'Big Dig' - the largest and most technically challenging infrastructure project ever undertaken in the United States ? ABC continues to work with private and public partners to advance the design, funding, and operation of a variety of transportation, land development, and public realm projects and issues".

... it appears that "A Better City" is trying to work with people on improving the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the "Urban Ring" (Map: http://www.abettercity.org/projects-urban-ring.html ) -- a "a circumferential transit system that would support economic development and growth for key sectors of our economy" -- and the Siler Line Phase III. See "Our Current Projects" at http://www.abettercity.org/about.html for more details.

About the Lecture Series:
http://www.architects.org/news/index.cfm?doc_id=60

"This is the Boston Society of Architects' 29th annual series of monthly design-related lectures. This series is co-sponsored by the Boston Public Library and is held in the library's Rabb Lecture Hall at Copley Square. Each presentation begins at 6:00 pm and is free and open to all. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that you arrive 15 minutes before the start time of each presentation.

"This annual series of presentations on architecture and the built environment illuminates the profound impact design has on our community and the ways in which we live. We hope you will join us for these in-depth explorations".

About the Loeb Fellowship Program:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/loeb_fellowship/

"The Loeb Fellowship was established in 1970 through the generosity of the late John L. Loeb, Harvard College '24. Based at the Graduate School of Design, the program offers ten annual postprofessional awards for independent study at Harvard. Through the Fellowship, participants have access to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, the Graduate School of Education, Harvard Business School, Harvard College, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School of Government, and M.I.T".


Other Boston Society of Architects Lectures @ the BPL -- http://www.bpl.org/news/upcomingevents.htm Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in the Rabb Lecture Hall. Dec. 17, Rick Dimino speaks on Making Better Cities in a talk co-sponsored by the Loeb Fellowship program at Harvard; Jan. 21, Anne Hawley, director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, describe's the site's transformation; Feb. 18, Antonio Di Mambro FAIA speaks on Reinventing America's Cities;

Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/NerdFunBoston/calendar/9030055/