CitiesAlive Virtual 2020

Full Conference Recordings

In response to the COVID 19 Pandemic, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and the Green Infrastructure Foundation have teamed up to bring you the very best of CitiesAlive and Grey to Green, combining outstanding world class speakers with cutting edge emerging professionals and award-winning project videos.

CitiesAlive® Virtual 2020 is a multi-disciplinary conference, bringing together the very best designers, product manufacturers, researchers, and policy makers in the field of living architecture and green infrastructure. Attendees will hear from leading-edge designers like Ken Yeang, Bill Browning, and Herbert Dreiseitl, discussing their innovative approaches and award winning projects. We will be highlighting progressive policies as seen in Philadelphia and presented by Keynote Marc Cammarata, as well as the latest research. Join us in shaping a better, more resilient future, as we emerge stronger from COVID-19 pandemic.

The content of this conference will be delivered in four afternoon sessions, each focusing on a theme:

Day 1 - Emerging Professionals Research Launch Pad
Day 2 - Economics & Finance of Green Infrastructure
Day 3 - Integrated Design for Sustainable Water Management
Day 4 - Health & Wellness Resilience Through Integrated Green Infrastructure Design

10/20/2020: Emerging Professionals Research Launch Pad	Time:	Speakers:	Topic:
	1:20	Meghan Blackson	Do native roof plant communities suppress weed colonization?
	1:30	Katherine Manning	Built by Nature: community and function in natural and structurally analogous urban systems
	1:40	Anna Droz	Do natural substrates and native co-occurring plant communities increase green roof performance?
	1:50	Michael Guidi	Green Roof Ecology: Does Altered Flowering Plant Phenology Affect Pollinator Visitation on Urban Green Roofs?
	2:00	Ivan Guzman	Learnings from an Undergraduate Classroom Research Study in the Use of Reclaimed Fibers in Urban Roof Farms
	2:10	Amy Heim	Using spatial heterogeneity to encourage plant biodiversity on extensive green roofs
	2:20	Q & A
	2:40	Awards of Excellence
	2:50	Shijia Yang	Living wall case study
	3:00	Sylvie Spraakman	Field survey and performance results of mature bioretention in Ontario, Canada
	3:10	Melody Peiyi Li	Effects of spatial heterogeneity in solar exposure and soil moisture on green roof plant species and functional group distribution
	3:20	Mark Mitchell	Nutrient cycling and successional dynamics: implications for green roof design and management
	3:30	Wenxi Liao	The influence of biochar granulation and particle size on plant growth and discharge quality from green roofs
	3:40	Virinder Sidhu	Establishing a buffer strip to decrease stormwater-runoff induced metals and nutrients in surface water
	3:50	Q & A
	4:00: Panel	Reid Coffman	Career Panel: Pathways of Student-to-Young Professional
10/21/20: The Economics & Finance of Green Infrastructure	Time:	Speakers:	Topic:
	1:05- Keynote:	Michelle Xuereb	Quadrangle
	1:35	Jennifer Court	The Economic Impact of Ontario's Green Infrastructure Sector
	1:55	Jeff Joslin	Cost Benefit Analysis for Policy Making- San Fran
	2:15	Nate Griswold	PACE Financing
	2:55	Awards of Excellence
	3:05	Leila Tolderlund, Martin Egan	Cost Analysis of Green Roofs Ability to Mitigate Hail Damage on Roofs
	3:05- Keynote:	Marc Cammarata	Philadelphia Water Department- Green City, Clean Waters at Year 9 of Implementation
	4:05- Panel:	Jennifer Bousselot, Reid Coffman, Bill Retzlaff	Green Roof Research in North America: A Recent History and Future Strategies
10/22/2020: Integrated Design for Sustainable Water Management	Time:	Speakers:	Topic:
	1:05	Michele Adams, Thomas Amoroso	Shoemaker Green is a SITES- ceritifed plaza
	1:25	Mary Pat McGuire	Urban Surface Retrofit: Transforming a city for rainwater
	1:45	Erin English	Thinking Like Water: Living Infrastructure for wastewater treatement and reuse 3
	2:05	Q & A
	2:25	Awards of Excellence
	2:35	Ting Wang	Engaging community members through novel partnerships: monitoring the performance of Green Infrastructure in cities
	2:55	Charles Duprey	Compost use standards in GI
	3:15	Q & A
	3:25	Troy Holmes	The stormwater benefits of creating high-performance trees
	3:45: Keynote	Herbert Dreiseitl	Water and climate: threat to opportunities for resilient, liveable and healthy cities
	4:15	Q & A
10/23/20: Health and Wellness Resilience through integrated Green Infrastructure Design	Time:	Speakers:	Topic:
	1:05-Keynote	Ken Yeang, Hamzah and Yeang	Designing with nature: ecological design as biointegration of a set for infrastructure
	1:35	Bruce Dvorak	Pilot testing vegetation on a custom living wall system
	1:55	Q & A
	2:05	Awards of Excellence
	2:15	Arlene Throness, Sharene Shafie	Ryerson Urban Farm
	2:35	Q & A
	2:55	Molly Meyer	LAPT
	3:15	Jaime Miller	The nature of change
	3:35	Q & A
	3:45- Keynote	Bill Browning	Terrapin Bright Green- Benefits of biophilic design