Lecture & Lunch: Building a Livable City: Infrastructure for All

  • Starts: 12:00 pm on Friday, January 25, 2019
  • Ends: 1:30 pm on Friday, January 25, 2019
Boston University City Planning and Urban Affairs Program, Initiative on Cities, and Sustainability@BU invites you to attend an upcoming lecture and lunch, "Building a Livable City: Infrastructure for All," presented by Adriaan Kok, Senior Designer and Project Manager at ipv Delft creative engineers. Mr. Kok is educated as an Industrial Design Engineer at the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands. For the last 18 years he has been involved in a wide variety of projects ranging from bridge design for all modes including moveable and fixed, designing urban elements from seats, waste collection systems, lighting systems, to a wayfinding system for small children, as well as Dutch National studies to find new ways to improve infrastructure in floodplains and writing Dutch regulations for the design of active transport bridges. Currently, Mr. Kok is involved in several bridge design projects, the development of an underground waste-collection system, writing a design process guide for the Dutch National Highway and waterways authority to help develop more sustainable future-proof infrastructure, and the development of a bike path along the LA River. Join us at the Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, on Friday, January 25 from 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Lunch will be provided beginning at 11:30 am.
Location:
Initiative on Cities, 75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215
Link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-lunch-building-a-livable-city-infrastructure-for-all-tickets-54760991600