Alfonso Vegara
President,Fundación Metrópoli
Alfonso Vegara is an Architect, Economist and Sociologist and earned a PhD in City and Regional Planning. He is the founder and President of the Fundación Metrópoli, fellow and Trustee of the Eisenhower Foundation. He has taught architecture and planning at the Universities of Madrid, Navarra and Pennsylvania School of Design. He has also worked as an advisor to the Government of Singapore for the One North Project, as well as Cities as Curitiba, Dublin, Bilbao, Casablanca, Sydney, etc. From 2002-2005 he was President of ISOCARP, The International Society of City and Regional Planners. In 2006 he received the European City and Regional Planning Award and in 2007 the Jaime I Award on Planning, Landscape and Sustainability delivered by the King of Spain. His research on Urban Planning has been presented in the book “Territorios Inteligentes”.
FUNDACIÓN METRÓPOLI
Fundación Metrópoli is an international organisation, at the forefront of a new generation of “intellectual capital institutions” that aspires to contribute to the innovation and development of cities and regions through the research, sharing and implementation of knowledge, and with the objective of building a sustainable future. The aim of the Fundación is to be a catalyst for the positive transformation of cities and landscapes in the 21st century.
Mission: to invent private projects that will promote a sustainable future.
Eisenhower fellowship network
The Urban Land Institute
3 Programs:
Research
Innovation: new ideas
Incubation: ideas to reality --> creating new companies or agencies
Formed the Mayors institute to get mayors together.
Why is designing a project in the desert a good idea?
ASMOA
Funding: Got funding from foundations and universities from other countries
Not competitive with traditional planning firms
collaborators: give ideas and connections
always find a component of access that should be elevated to give the area competitive access.
do not do a cookie cutter design
dialogue with the landscape
development they call eco: never one use. always mixed use/mixed income.
background in architecture, economics, and political science.
Collaborate!
Understand institutions and their interconnections with the region
Place as competitiveness
Take out one idea from each class and try to see if they coordinate with the principles. Be and advocate!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Ramando
What are the keys to building creativity: be in a space where you like what you are doing, a space that is nurturing, reward people through other means,
professor:
movtivating yourself to a hostile response or a boring response
preserver
stay motivated, know what you are doing has value
Creativity in a leadership position is about managing your own creativity in a democracy.
Negotiation: mutual gain
A lot of value left un-gained because of the processes we use to make decision. Human happiness can be much much greater if we were all really successful negotiators. Thereby, don't be secretive with your wants because otherwise you are eliminating the possibility of discovering some benefits that could have been on the negotiating table.
take no more than 9 months, people lose motivation
powerful proposal, brought to the political group of selectmen, they said no. he stayed motivated. he stayed committed. He said that was great feedback, proposed a blue ribbon commission, it should include the most severe critics, improve the plan and bring it back, six more months, created incentives for local plans rather than making them mandatory (WHAT WERE THE INCENTIVES). Redrafted the legislation, the selectmen said no again, a miracle happened, should their be a new regional planning law, a county charter and a moratorium?
planning is an unnatural act that needs to be nurtured.
don't fallow your job description.
get the job and make something of it.
you should quit if there is no hope.
do what you want. show up to meetings, make suggestions, organizations with technical political power that is going unused, but you can harness that. people like that attention. don't just follow your job description. think outside the job description.
scratch your back if you scratch ours, get politicians involved so you have political support. Know when to compromise, know when to back off, nurture and support your staff.
don't keep regular hours.
professor:
movtivating yourself to a hostile response or a boring response
preserver
stay motivated, know what you are doing has value
Creativity in a leadership position is about managing your own creativity in a democracy.
Negotiation: mutual gain
A lot of value left un-gained because of the processes we use to make decision. Human happiness can be much much greater if we were all really successful negotiators. Thereby, don't be secretive with your wants because otherwise you are eliminating the possibility of discovering some benefits that could have been on the negotiating table.
take no more than 9 months, people lose motivation
powerful proposal, brought to the political group of selectmen, they said no. he stayed motivated. he stayed committed. He said that was great feedback, proposed a blue ribbon commission, it should include the most severe critics, improve the plan and bring it back, six more months, created incentives for local plans rather than making them mandatory (WHAT WERE THE INCENTIVES). Redrafted the legislation, the selectmen said no again, a miracle happened, should their be a new regional planning law, a county charter and a moratorium?
planning is an unnatural act that needs to be nurtured.
don't fallow your job description.
get the job and make something of it.
you should quit if there is no hope.
do what you want. show up to meetings, make suggestions, organizations with technical political power that is going unused, but you can harness that. people like that attention. don't just follow your job description. think outside the job description.
scratch your back if you scratch ours, get politicians involved so you have political support. Know when to compromise, know when to back off, nurture and support your staff.
don't keep regular hours.
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