‘Cities 2000’ to Examine Urban Transportation

City planners, environmentalists and transportation experts from throughout the United States will explore possible solutions to urban and transportation problems in a symposium Aug. 1-4 at UCLA.

“Cities 2000: Transportation and Urban Design,” is sponsored by the UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program. Topics will include protecting outlying areas from urban sprawl and balancing population density with environmental quality and transportation systems.

The panelists will include Kenneth C. Topping, Los Angeles city director of planning; Jonathan Barnett, urban design consultant and director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at City College of New York; Robert Conradt, a traffic engineer and transportation consultant who has worked in cities around the world, and Allan B. Jacobs, planning consultant and author of “Making City Planning Work.”

Also, Ian L. McHarg, professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning; Krishniah Murthy, civil engineer and project director of Metro Rail Transit Consultants, and Charles R. Rendall, a vice president with the architectural firm of Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall.

The coordinator of the symposium is Anil Verma, a consultant who has worked on several transportation and urban design projects in the United States, Middle East and Far East.

Registration for the symposium is $550. More information can be obtained from the UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Program, (213) 825-9414.