{"510861":{"#nid":"510861","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Schools of Architecture \u0026 City and Regional Planning to host Ryan Gravel Talk and Book Signing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAcademia is full of dreams. The power of imagination and the ability to conceptualize \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ewhat could be\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;permeates the air of\u0026nbsp;university\u0026nbsp;classrooms. Students dream, faculty encourage and challenge, and a series of checks and balances begins to form around an idea. Does it solve a problem? Has it been done before? Will it work?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn 1999, Ryan Gravel\u2019s\u0026nbsp;master\u2019s thesis inspired faculty around the Georgia Tech College of Architecture to share his dream for the City of Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022While Ryan was working on his thesis, all of us professors at Georgia Tech believed in the transformative power of the idea and the brilliant planning and design of the project itself. But we were only academics, dreaming dreams, and having dreamt so often of transformative projects, Ryan\u2019s thesis soon became another memory,\u201d say\u0026nbsp;architecture professor Richard Dagenhart, Gravel\u2019s mentor. \u0022Until it was not.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGravel\u2019s thesis eventually served as the basis for the Atlanta Beltline.\u0026nbsp;Now, after fifteen years of progress, the BeltLine is changing both the physical form of Atlanta and the decisions people make about living there.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022Ryan Gravel has a love for our city, an audacity to dream, and a designer\u2019s sense of the possible,\u201d says Bruce Stiftel,\u0026nbsp;chair of the School of City and Regional Planning. \u0022His dream has given new vitality to Atlanta and serves as an inspiration to planning and architecture students everywhere, nowhere more than in the same studios where he dreamed - at Georgia Tech on Fourth Street in Atlanta.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWith the Beltline project under his belt and new professional adventures on the horizon,\u0026nbsp;Gravel has taken what he has learned since graduation and written a book called \u003Cem\u003EWhere We Want to Live \u2013 Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;This fresh take on the future of cities investigates the cultural side of infrastructure, describing how a more thoughtful design for the construction of our lives can illuminate a brighter path forward. By invoking examples as wide-ranging as the small and elegant High Line in New York City to the revitalization of the vast and unruly Los Angeles River, Gravel describes how people everywhere are already reclaiming obsolete infrastructure as renewed conduits of urban life. More than individual projects, he argues, they represent an emerging cultural momentum that allows us to forget tired old arguments about traffic, pollution, blight, and sprawl, and instead leverage those conditions as assets in the creation of something far more interesting than anything we\u2019ve seen so far.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETalk will take place in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium followed by book signing next door in the Architecture West Building, 1st floor atrium.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EParking options: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.arch.gatech.edu\/newsletter\/CoAParkingOptions\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.arch.gatech.edu\/newsletter\/CoAParkingOptions\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/beltline-impact\u0022\u003ELearn more about the Atlanta BeltLine\u0027s impact on Atlanta.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EListen to Gravel (M.Arch + MCRP \u002799)\u0026nbsp;author of the original thesis for the Atlanta Beltline discuss the topics of his new book, \u201cWhere We Want to Live \u2013 Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Listen to Gravel (M.Arch + MCRP \u002799) author of the original thesis for the Atlanta Beltline discuss the topics of his new book, \u201cWhere We Want to Live \u2013 Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities.\u201d"}],"uid":"28816","created_gmt":"2016-03-08 16:06:13","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:21","author":"Tia Jewell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-15T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-15T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-15T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-15 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-15 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-15 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"434401":{"id":"434401","type":"image","title":"Ryan Gravel","body":null,"created":"1449256148","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:08","changed":"1475895174","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:54","alt":"Ryan Gravel","file":{"fid":"202960","name":"ryan-gravel.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ryan-gravel_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ryan-gravel_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":43336,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ryan-gravel_0.jpg?itok=purmK4h2"}}},"media_ids":["434401"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/beltline-impact","title":"The BeltLine Impact"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.arch.gatech.edu\/newsletter\/CoAParkingOptions","title":"Parking Options"}],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"},{"id":"60379","name":"DBL - Digital Building Lab"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"47851","name":"archictecture"},{"id":"15269","name":"Atlanta BeltLine"},{"id":"40131","name":"City and urban planning"},{"id":"177","name":"planning"},{"id":"19131","name":"ryan gravel"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"10377","name":"Career\/Professional development"},{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"},{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETia Jewell\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Events\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tia.jewell@coa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etia.jewell@coa.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}