"€œWhen Cities Tango: The Art of Glocal Public Space Design," is the topic for Bill Morrish, professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia, who is first up on San Jose's 2008 Great Cities Speakers Series this Sunday. Wish I could be there.

Held in conjunction with 01SJ: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge (www.01sj.org), Morrish's talk, entitled will discuss the realities of today’s cosmopolitan urban landscape public spaces need to integrate formal, functional, productive and generative characteristics.

Also on the program is Wolfgang Wagener, director of Cisco'€™s Internet Business Solutions Group’s (IBSG) Connected Urban Development (CUD) Program. The CUD program demonstrates how to reduce carbon emissions by introducing fun­damental improvements in the efficiency of urban infrastructure through information and communication technology (ICT).

Morrish'€™s work is exemplified by his innovative urban design plan for Phoenix, Arizona’s public art plan which unites artist and public work engineers in the transformation of city utilities into the a citywide cultural setting and new public realm.

Morrish believes that "great cities of tomorrow must consider a paradigm shift in the way they look at the integration of architecture and infrastructure, including architecture that acts as a 'local' connector in the 'local'€™ [global and local] arena. We need to view architecture and landscape as infrastructure. The infrastructure we created in the 1950s created the economy of the 1980s and 1990s, and the infrastructure we create today will create the future economy."

Wagener added, "Successful cities in the future will need a broad global community of urban, business, research, and civic leaders committed to adopting innovative urban planning, collaboration technologies, and overall smart policy. By considering emerging approaches to the assimilation of the traditional built, cultural and network infrastructures, it will provide San Jose the opportunity to reflect on how important advances in art and technology, the green movement, government and engineering will help shape the City’s future."

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