From the Global Border to the Border Neighborhood

 

Award-winning architect and urban theorist Teddy Cruz will show how the nonconformist and entrepreneurial spirit he finds in Latin American neighborhoods can help all Americans envision a life without gates when he delivers this year’s L’Enfant Lecture on City Planning and Design. He will speak at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, on November 1, 2007, at 7 p.m. The annual L’Enfant Lecture is co-sponsored by the American Planning Association and the National Building Museum. Admission is $10 for APA and NBM members; $15 for nonmembers. Students with a school ID will be admitted free. For more information or to register, go to www.planning.org/lenfant.
 

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More than 1,200 community development practitioners are expected to attend The Enterprise Foundation’s 2005 Network Conference, Nov. 9-11 in Washington, D.C. Featured speakers include Denis Hayes, President of The Bullitt Foundation and organizer of the first Earth Day; Elsie Meeks, Executive Director of First Nations Oweesta Corporation, the first Native American community development financial institution; and Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.  The conference also features more than 45 workshops for community developers at every level and tours of community development work throughout the nation's capital.  Register online at www.enterprisemeetings.org.