Jonathan Barnett presents “Meeting San Antonio’s 2020 Design Goals” in UTSA College of Architecture Series
By Nicole Chavez

As a part of the 2012 Spring Lecture Series, the UTSA College of Architecture presents Jonathan Barnett, a Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning and Director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. In the context of SA2020, San Antonio’s future vision initiated by Mayor Julián Castro, Barnett’s lecture title is Meeting San Antonio’s 2020 Urban Design Goals. He will present urban design ideas that promote sustainability and improve growth management, discuss how transportation can restructure the design of the re¬gion, and show urban design concepts for neighborhoods, downtowns, and centers of art and culture. Barnett is an architect and planner as well as an educator, and is the author of numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of city design. His lecture will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 in the Aula Canaria, Buena Vista Bldg. #1.328, on the UTSA Downtown Campus.

Barnett has been an advisor to the cities of Charleston, SC, Cleveland, Kansas City, Miami, Nashville, New York City, Norfolk, Omaha, and Pittsburgh in the United States and Xiamen and Tianjin in China. He has also been an advisor to several U.S. Government agencies including the National Park Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Capitol Planning Commission. Barnett’s recent work on large-scale urban development and redevelopment projects includes a 2500 hectare planned community in Cambodia, an urban design plan for the entire city of Omaha, Nebraska, a transit-oriented design plan for the City of Xiamen in China, a resort plan in Busan, Korea, and a plan for the Cumberland riverfront in downtown Nashville.

Books written by Barnett include Urban Design as Public Policy; Introduction to Urban Design; The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition, and Miscalculation; The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region; and Redesigning Cities, a book on the current practice of city design. His newest book is City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green, and Systems Perspectives, published by Routledge in 2011.