Garvan Woodland Gardens To Host "Creating Value" Symposium
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark - Ray Suarez, senior correspondent with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, will present the keynote lecture at the "Creating Value" symposium on Saturday, April 26, 2003. The symposium, organized by the University of Arkansas Landscape Architecture Department, will bring together business and government leaders, citizen activists and design professionals to chart a new course for development based on long-term investment in good design and sensitive ecological planning.
Suarez, who hosted the nationwide, call-in news program Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio for six years, recently published "The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999."
The symposium, which is open to the public with a registration fee of $80, will be held at the Garvan Woodland Gardens at 540 Arkridge Road in Hot Springs (see www.garvangardens.org for map) on Saturday, April 26, from 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Media representatives and students may attend free of charge. Scheduled activities include:
- 8:45 - 9:30 a.m. press briefing with Ray Suarez
- 10:15 a.m. keynote address by Suarez
- a guided tour of Garvan Woodland Gardens (with photo opportunities)
- complimentary lunch for all media representatives that RSVP in advance (to Kendall Curlee)
- a panel discussion, "Creating Value in Arkansas and Natural Implications," featuring Fayetteville mayor Dan Coody, environmental activist Fran Alexander, Virginia developer Kenneth Berg and Tom Daniels, author of "Holding Our Ground: Protecting America’s Farms and Farmland."
Contacts
Fran Beatty, department head, Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture (479) 575-5617; fbeatty@uark.eduKendall Curlee, communications coordinator, School of Architecture (479) 575-4704; kcurlee@uark.edu
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