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PAST WORKSHOPS
The Small City Drug Abuse Epidemic
Introduction: Ed Miller, Political Science and UWSP Center for the Small City
Featured Speaker: Linda Bluestein, M.D. Medical College of Wisconsin
Panalists:
Judge John Finn, Portage County
Sergeant Tony Babl, Detective, Stevens Point Police Department
Sue Bailey, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Work UWSP
Bryan Lockan, Conservative Warden, WI DNR
Moderator: Bob Wolensky, Sociology & Social Work and UWSP Center for the Small City
Thursday, April 27, 2017
116 College of Professional Studies
1901 Fourth Ave. Stevens Point, WI
7-9 PM
Light refreshments provided
The
Built Environment: Planning and Design in Small Cities and Towns
April
15-16, 2014
University
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Dreyfus
University Center
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Time Block I 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (Laird Room)
Session 1 Keynote
Speaker: Duane Thorbeck,
Founder & Director, Center
for Rural Design, University of Minnesota, “Rural
Design & Rural Futures”
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time Block II 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Session
2 Sustainability,
Culture, and Community (Legacy
Room)
Moderator: David
Chunyu,
Department of Sociology & Social Work, UWSP
Panelists:
Duane Greuel, The Alaska Wilderness League
and the Sierra Club, “Lessons from the Gwich/in Culture for Sustainable
Communities”
Krishna Roka, Department of Sociology &
Social Work, UWSP, “Nepal’s Built Environment: Undermining Social and
Environmental Values”
Kathe Julin, Division of Interior
Architecture, UWSP, “Using the Arts to Connect with Community: Exhibit and
Workshops with University Students”
Aaron Thompson, Center for Land Use Education,
UWSP, “Service Learning as a Method
for Engaging Students in Planning for Sustainable
Communities”
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time Block II 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Session 3 Environmental Issues in Small Cities
& Towns (Encore)
Moderator:
Robert P. Wolensky, Department
of Sociology & Social Work, UWSP
Panelists:
David Ozsvath, Department of Geography &
Geology, UWSP, “Sustainable Growth: Got
Water?”
Eric Olson, UW Extension Lakes, UWSP, “Stormwater Fees and Surface Water
Protection”
Gene Martin, Department of Geography &
Geology, UWSP, “Sustainable Growth: Got
Greenspace?”
BREAK 10:00
a.m. – 10:15 a.m. (Beverages available
in DUC restaurants)
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time Block III 10:15
a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Session 4 Transportation
Issues in Small Cities & Towns
(Legacy Room)
Moderator: Aaron
Kadoch, Division of Interior Architecture, UWSP
Panelists:
Bob Fisch, Pokey Pedaling Stevens Point,
“Bicycling as Transportation: Why Small Cites Should Make Accommodations”
Jeff Schuler, Portage County, WI Planning
Department, “Portage County’s Countywide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan”
Gene Martin, Department of Geography &
Geology, UWSP, “Walkability: Reconnecting the
Urban Landscape”
Libby Ogard, Prime Focus LLC, DePere, WI,
“Intermodal Freight Terminals in Small Towns”
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time Block III 10:15
a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Session 5 Space, Land, and
the Built Environment (Encore)
Moderator:
Josh Miller, City Planner, Marshfield,
WI
Panelists:
Katja V. Marquart, Division of Interior
Architecture, UWSP, “Labyrinths in the Landscape: Experiential Public Spaces
for Wellness and Community Engagement”
Danya
Kim, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UW-Madison, “Public Lands
and their Role in Rural Growth”
Robert B. Enright, Department of Sociology &
Social Work, UWSP; and Plan Commission Member, Town of Hull, WI, “The Role of
Planning in the Expansion of a Small City”
LUNCH 11:45
a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Convenient eating in DUC restaurants)
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time Block IV 12:30 p.m.
– 1:45 p.m. (Laird Room)
Session 6 Featured
Speaker: Thomas R.
Fisher, Professor
of Architecture & the Dean of the College of Design, University of
Minnesota, "Small
Cities
in the New Economy"
BREAK 1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Beverages available in DUC
restaurants)
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time Block VI 2:00 p.m.
– 3:30 p.m.
Session
7 Case
Studies in Planning and Design (DUC Theater)
Moderator: Edward
J. Miller, Department of Political Science, UWSP
Panelilsts:
William J. Burke, Principal, W.J. Burke &
Associates and Davy Engineering, Inc., Lansing, Iowa, “Lessons Learned: The
Stevens Point, WI, Downtown Mall”
Michael Ostrowski, Stevens Point
Development/Redevelopment Authority, “Recent Revitalization Efforts in Downtown
Stevens Point”
Kevin Korpela, Proprietor, Downtown Grocery
Inc., Wausau, WI, “An Old-Fashioned
Grocery on Main Street in Wausau”
Coleman Peiffer, Northcentral Regional Planning Commission. "Regional Livability Plan"
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Time Block VI 2:00 p.m.
– 3:30 p.m.
Session
8 Food
& the Food System (Encore Room)
Moderator:
Heidi Sprecher, General Manager,
Stevens Point Area Co-op
Panelists:
Samual M. Odin, Independent
Researcher, Artist, and Farmer, Milwaukee, WI, “Room for
a Radical Food Vanguard? Placing Human
Rights, Sovereignty, and Justice before Opportunism”
Jeremy Solin, Wisconsin Center for
Environmental Education, UWSP, “Place-based Food Systems in the Built
Environment”
Anna Haines, Center for Land Use Education,
UWSP, “Zoning and Local Food”
This
workshop is co-sponsored by the Center for the Small City, Center for Land Use
Planning, Department of Geography and Geology, Division of Interior
Architecture, and the Colleges of Letters & Science, Professional Studies,
and Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Workshop
Planning Committee: Ed Miller (Political Science, COLS), Aaron Kadoch
(Interior Architecture, CPS),
Katja Marquart (Interior
Architecture, CPS),
Anna Haines (Center for Land Use
Education, CNR),
Ismaila Odogba (Geology &
Geology, COLS);
David Chunyu (Sociology &
Social Work, COLS),
Aaron Thompson (Center for Land Use
Education, CNR), Bob Wolensky (Sociology & Social Work, COLS)
The workshop is open free of charge to
all. The
full list of speakers, times and rooms can also be found at
http://www.uwsp.edu/cols-ap/smallCity/Pages/default.aspx
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