Lecturing and Public Speaking

Michael Mehaffy has lectured in the US,  Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, India and Israel, among others.  Venues have included the Royal College of Physicians, London, the American Institute of Architects conference in Bath, UK, the Technical University, Delft, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, the University of Miami, US, the Royal Town Planning Institute, London, and many others.    

Specific topics include sustainable urbanism, advanced research in urban design, urban coding, transit-oriented development, New Urbanism, "smart growth", pattern languages, and recent work of the architect and researcher Christopher Alexander.  We also engage in short-term teaching on these topics.  We are happy to discuss a customized presentation for your event.

 
"I hope you will be pleased to know that your opening [keynote] remarks were quoted frequently during the second day's sessions.  I believe your work is very important."
                            -          James Malanaphy, Co-Chair
                                        Historic Resources Committee, American Institute of Architects
 

"Your thoughtful messages planning content well in advance of the event assured me we had selected the ideal [keynote] presenter."
                             -         Piper Foster, Director, Sopris Foundation 

"We had fantastic lectures, feedback and perspective by you."
                             -         Ernesto Philibert, Former Program Director, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico

                                       (regarding keynote presentation and lectures)    

"What a compelling and inspiring synthesis you presented."
                            -           Susan Zielinski, Managing Director, Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society             
                                           
"Your presentation in Aspen was wonderful.  It was the short survey course, in one hour, what I learned last year in the urban planning and design survey course at MIT."
                             -         Robin Chase, CEO, Meadow Networks

"Well prepared and very clear!  Several people commented that they understood you in that session better than Chris [Alexander]."
                            -          Hank Dittmar, Chairman
                                       Congress for the New Urbanism

"Your contribution was terrific."

                            -          Elana Horowitz

                                       Government of Ontario, Growth Secretariat 

Michael Mehaffy with colleagues at the                        Michael Mehaffy with friends Christopher Alexander and Andres Duany at

INTBAU India conference, January 2007                    a session with Alexander at CNU XIV in Providence, RI, June 2006

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