Princeton Junction
Neighborhoods' Coalition
Meeting
Sponsors Talk by Transit Oriented Design Planner
Stephanos Polyzoides
Monday May 17, 2007 - 7:00 - 9:00 PM,
West Windsor Township Senior Citizen Center
Municipal Complex, Clarksville Road, West Windsor Township
The Princeton Junction Neighborhoods' Coalition is sponsoring a talk and community discussion on Thursday May 17th at 7 PM in West Windsor's Senior Center with Stephanos Polyzoides, a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and a member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Polyzoides will critique the Hillier design for Princeton Junction indicating where it succeeds and where it falls short on delivering "community" and other goals cited by the residents. He will also discuss how the financial risks associated with such designs can be minimized and how communities need to deal with developers. Among many other design initiatives, he designed two Mixed-Use Transit-Oriented Developments on the new Gold Line, Del Mar Station in Pasadena and Mission Station in South Pasadena.
Mr. Polyzoides is a popular speaker on the subjects of new urbanism, transit-oriented development, mixed use development, housing and sustainability and is a frequent guest at academic symposia. Mr. Polyzoides received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. From 1973 until 1997, he was Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He has also been Visiting Professor at several prestigious schools of architecture. From 1983 through 1990, he was on the Advisory Board for the School of Architecture at Princeton University . He is a registered architect in the states of California, Arizona and New Mexico. He was born in Athens, Greece and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973.
As one of two founding principals of the California-based design firm of Moule & Polyzoides, Mr. Polyzoides is the author of two books -- Los Angeles Courtyard Housing: A Typological Analysis and R.M. Schindler, Architect. His research has produced four distinguished exhibitions and exhibition catalogs: "Caltech: 1910-1950," "Myron Hunt: 1868-1952," "Wallace Neff," and "Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate." Stefanos Polyzoides is a Seaside Award recipient, the nation's most prestigious award in the field of urbanism. CNU, a national association of over 3,000 architects, planners, engineers, developers, government officials and environmentalists, works toward the restoration of existing urban centers, the reconfiguration of suburbs, and the protection of nature within an integrated regional structure.
The meeting will be held on Thursday May 17, at 7 p.m. in the Senior Center in the West Windsor Township Municipal Complex on Clarksville Road.
The Princeton Junction Neighborhoods' Coalition is sponsoring this event to engage, inform and involve the community and promote dialogue on local issues.