GRAY AREA's free Preservation Provocateurs speaker series continues with "Right Size, Right Place: A New Role for Preservation."
Even though Philadelphia's population decline has halted, it and other older industrial cities have lost significant population over the past 50 years, leaving behind a vast inventory of vacant and underused old buildings.
Cara Bertron will discuss rightsizing—adapting the physical city for current and expected populations—and how preservation strategies can help shape and strengthen legacy cities.
Bertron is the director of the Rightsizing Cities Initiative at PlaceEconomics, a Washington, DC consulting firm. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation.
GRAY AREA is an experiment and public conversation to promote new thinking about Philadelphia's older buildings. It is a project of the University of the Arts and DesignPhiladelphia of the Center for Architecture, and is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Learn more at GrayAreaPhilly.org
