Calendar of Events
Adler After Dark: Presentation on Location Efficiency
Thursday, June 17, 6:00 – 10:00 PM
Adler Planetarium
224 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Enjoy cocktails and appetizers against the award-winning view of the Chicago skyline seen only from the Adler. Amble around the Adler’s exhibitions or take in a sky or space show. See Saturn’s rings or Jupiter’s great red spot with your own eyes using the Adler’s telescopes.
Adler After Dark is the only time you can peek through the Doane Observatory telescope, the largest telescope in the Midwest accessible to the public. Great for groups and makes for a very original first date, Adler After Dark has something for everyone!
Also, CNT’s Chief Research Scientist, Peter M. Haas, Ph.D. will be presenting on CNT’s work on location efficiency. Here’s a snippet:
Household transportation costs related to a household location remains elusive, and these costs are clearly driven by where one lives. Tell someone that a household living in an urban location will own less cars, drive less and use transit more that one living in a suburban location and they may respond with “duh, tell me something I don’t know.” However putting an estimated value to this is not obvious. Much like energy efficiency, location efficiency can drive how a household uses economic and natural resource in a more or less sustainable manner. Just as a house with good insulation and windows allows its residents to be comfortable in the coldest of winters, without using as much heating fuel; a household living in a community that has access to goods, services and jobs without dependence on the automobile will use resources in a more sustainable manner. This talk will examine how CNT measures location efficiency, what are its drivers, and how it can be used to promote more sustainable decisions, by national, regional and household decision makers.
Buy tickets and more information here.
Bike Forum: Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around
Friday, June 18, 7:30 PM
Daley Plaza
50 W. Washington, Chicago
Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, will bring together civic leaders, biking advocates, urban theorists as well as artist/musician David Byrne, former Talking Heads front man for Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around, presented by Goose Island 312 and 93XRT. The forum will be held on Friday, June 18 at 7:30 pm after the Bike to Work Rally.
The full panel is listed below.
Luann Hamilton, Chicago Department of Transportation Deputy Commissioner
Jacky Grimshaw, Center for Neighborhood Technology Vice President of Policy
Randy Neufeld, SRAM Cycling Fund Director
Tickets are sold out.
Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City
Wednesday, June 23, 5:30 PM
Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
CEOs for Cities is co-hosting a special screening of Beyond the Motor City, the acclaimed PBS documentary about the history of or America’s transportation policy through the lens of the Detroit experience. Carol Coletta will provide opening remarks.
Beyond the Motor City is part of Blueprint America, a national, multi-platform initiative examining the state of America’s transportation infrastructure. The screening is presented by the Chicago Architecture Foundation in partnership with CEOs for Cities and the Metropolitan Planning Council.
To attend, please RSVP here.
Tuesdays at APA: “Housing + Transportation Affordability Index”
Tuesday, July 20, 5:30 PM
Under the traditional definition of housing affordability, seven out of ten U.S. communities are considered “affordable” to the typical household. But in almost all metro regions of the country, when the definition of affordability includes both housing and transportation costs, the number of communities affordable to households earning the area median income decreases significantly.
Scott Bernstein and Peter Haas from the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) will discuss findings from CNT’s housing and transportation affordability research and share how users can use the Housing+Transportation Affordability Index tool to analyze housing and transportation costs at the neighborhood level. CM | 1.0
The events are free and open to APA members and nonmembers. More information here.
