Architects Roundtable with Ryan Gravel: The Atlanta BeltLine, Then and Now
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Join us for a candid one-on-one with urban designer, author, and entrepreneur Ryan Gravel. He is best known for his master’s thesis and early work that led to the creation of the Atlanta BeltLine. Ryan had the innovative idea to transform unused railroad corridors into infrastructure for a new way of life
Ryan will sit down with HKS Global Practice Director Sheba Ross to discuss the evolution of his original idea and vision over the past 20 years. Attendees will enjoy a hot breakfast and learn about how the funding sources, trail, transit, community engagement, and affordable housing have shaped, molded, and impacted the BeltLine.
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Date and Time: Wednesday, July 10, 2024
8:00 am - 9:30 am -
Location: Ansley Golf Club
196 Montgomery Ferry Dr NE
Atlanta, GA 30309 - Organizer: AIA Atlanta
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Speaker
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Ryan Gravel
Ryan Gravel is an urban designer, author, and civic entrepreneur working on ideas about the future of cities. Best known for his master’s thesis and early work that launched the Atlanta Beltline, Ryan was also the lead creator of the Atlanta City Design, which designs the city’s inevitable change so that it grows into a better version of itself. Along with other projects and his book, Where We Want to Live, Ryan investigates the cultural side of infrastructure, describing how its intimate relationship with our way of life can illuminate a brighter path forward for cities.
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Sheba Ross
Moderator
Sheba Ross is a Partner at HKS where she leads the firm’s Cities and Communities practice, which strives to grow, connect, and revitalize urban areas with vision and purpose. In the past two decades, Sheba’s focus has been master planning the built environment by leveraging the design of the story and the details. She actively engages public participation in projects that revitalize their communities by linking health with the urban realm. In 2020, Sheba was recognized by the ULI Atlanta WLI ChangeMakers program as one of the most influential women in real estate in Atlanta.