Recent speaking engagements:
Alfred Deakin Lectures
"Brave New World? The Climate Change Challenge"
Keynote lecture and panel discussion: "Innovating the Cities"
Sponsored by the State Government of Victoria and the Wheeler Centre
Federation Square
Melbourne, Australia
Lecture video
"Remaking the Chinese City"
Panel discussion: "Greening the Chinese City"
Asia Society
New York, New York
"Invisible Cities: an Urban Biodiversity Conference"
Lecture and panel discussion: "Green Metropolis"
Sonsored by the Ministry of Natural Resources
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
"Locating Leadership in an Uncertain World"
Panel discussion: "Cities Respond to Climate Change"
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
New York, New York
Aspen Environment Forum
Panel discussions: "The Great Energy Challenge"
and "Going to the Country"
Aspen Institute
Aspen, Colorado
Lecture: "Cities and Sustainability"
Sponsored by Great City
Town Hall
Seattle, Washington
Lecture: "The Conundrum"
Berkeley Carroll School
Brooklyn, New York
Panel discussion:
"Is Local Agriculture Good For the Environment?"
Museum of the City of New York
New York, New York
Keynote lecture: "Growing a Sustainable City"
Annual Meeting
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth, Texas
Lecture: "Green Metropolis"
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
Lecture: "Green Manhattan"
Sponsored by Global Civic Policy Society
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre
Vancouver, British Columbia
WORKTECH10 New York
Keynote lecture: "Why Downtown is Greener Than Vermont"
Sponsored by Unwired
Time & Life Building
New York, New York
Queensland Growth Management Summit
Keynote lecture and panel discussion by videoconference:
"Green Metropolis"
Sponsored by State of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
"Bill's Design Talks"
Lecture and discussion: "David Owen and Our Green Metropolis"
Smithsonian Institution
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
New York, New York
Panel discussion: "Creating the Next Conservation Movement"
New York Academy of Sciences
& The Nature Conservancy
New York, New York
"Between the Lines"
Discussion and interview: "Green Metropolis"
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Atlanta, Georgia
Lecture: "Green Metropolis"
Real Estate Development Program
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Columbia University
New York, New York
Chancellor's Lecture
"Green Metropolis and Urban Sustainability"
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
"Our Cities, Ourselves"
Panel discussion: "The Future of Transportation in Urban Life"
Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects
The Center for Architecture
New York, New York
Aspen Ideas Festival
Panel Discussion: "Is Energy Efficiency a False Promise?"
Aspen Institute
Aspen, Colorado
Harriet Elliott Lecture Series
Keynote Lecture: "Greening Greensboro"
University of North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
"Book Talk"
Lecture: "Green Metropolis"
The Skyscraper Museum
New York, New York
"Big and Super-Green: From Buildings to Cityscapes"
Keynote lecture: "Green Metropolis"
Sponsored by Architectural Record and GreenSource
McGraw-Hill Companies
New York, New York
David Owen featured in "The Green Apple"
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PBS Television Series
Making "The Green Apple," podcast:
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