'Bridging Communities: A Measure of Today’ Conversations In Place

Claudia Jurmain, left, founder and series director of Conversations in Place, introduces the panelists and moderator for the “Bridging Communities: A Measure of Today” presentation to more than 100 guests on Sunday, September 11, 2016, at Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, Calif. Jurmain introduces on the stage from left Deborah Weintraub, AIA, LEEDAP, Chief Deputy City Engineer and Chief Architect in the Bureau of Engineering of the City of Los Angeles; Char Miller, W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College; Moderator Michael Bohn, AIA, Senior Principal at Studio One Eleven; City of Long Beach Mayor Dr. Robert Garcia; and Wayne Ratkovich, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Ratkovich Company. The “Bridging Communities: A Measure of Today” presentation considered if the development of well made places in Southern California can keep cultural nature in sync with environmental nature, bridge urban and suburban divides, and resolve at least some of the limitations that restrict what “doing well by doing good” means today. Now in its fifth year, Conversations in Place 2016 at Rancho Los Alamitos will present two more illuminating explorations of the nature of place including “Science and the Humanities: A Meeting of Minds” on October 16 and “The Sonic Landscape: Moving Messages” on November 6.