Noam Maitless, Associate Vice President, CallisonRTKL Inc, USA

Speaker Biograghy: Noam is an Associate Vice President in the Los Angeles-based Planning and Urban Design studio of CallisonRTKL, an award-winning architecture and design firm with offices worldwide. Working across the USA and internationally, Noam has more than 25 years' experience in multiple disciplines, including commercial and civic architecture, mixed-use and transit-orientated development, urban design, infrastructure, asset management, city planning and city branding. This wide-ranging experience comes together in his studio’s work in aerotropolis masterplanning, where the complex relationships between buildings, landscape, and the economic and social environments in which they exist may be addressed through innovative design. His studio is dedicated to solutions that are both visionary and implementable, and that reinforce a sense of place. Noam is LEED-accredited and a member of the American Institute of Architects. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Humanities from Stanford University, and earned his Master's of Architecture at Harvard.


Day 1 - 15 March
Session:
Airport Cities & Transport Connections


14:45 - 15:15 - From the ground up: small-scale strategies in aerotropolis masterplanning
Synopsis: Aerotropolis development exemplifies large-scale, top-down masterplanning, bringing international capital and super-regional competition to visionary cities across the globe. But reconciling the demands of world markets with local needs – infrastructure, cultural norms, social equity and jobs – is often a hurdle that constrains the effective adoption and execution of airport city development. This presentation will summarise our recent work in aerotropolis masterplanning, in the USA and internationally, and will discuss how small-scale, incremental development, community-focused efforts, and ground-up urban design strategies may have a critical influence on the successful planning and implementation of airport cities.

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