Webinar: Designing the Megaregion and Healing the Divided City

A Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network event

Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 1:00pm EDT
Webinars

Much of the economic and population growth in the U.S. is happening within 12 urban megaregions. Investment in these megaregions can add stress to the environment, increase gridlock and air traffic delays, and make inequality worse, or it can help stabilize the environment, balance transportation systems, and create walkable neighborhoods with diverse housing choices.

The Maryland Department of Planning and the Smart Growth Network held this webinar on April 7 with two urban planning experts as they explored these choices: Jonathan Barnett, author of Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale and Alan Mallach, author of The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America.

Participants

Alan Mallach

Alan Mallach

Alan Mallach is a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress in Washington, DC. He is the author of many works on housing and planning, including Bringing Buildings Back and Building a Better Urban Future: New Directions for Housing Policies in Weak Market Cities. He has served as director of housing and economic development for Trenton, N.J. as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan Barnett is a Fellow of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, and former director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author, co-author, or editor of three previous Island Press books, and has written many other books and articles about city and regional design.