Back to the Future: Transatlantic Breakfast with Kevin J. Krizek

While the Covid-19 pandemic and rising energy costs pose challenges to modern society, these crises also create the opportunity to reimagine life in cities. Urban space – hitherto geared toward cars – can be transformed to advance clean energy, net-zero emissions and human-scaled mobility. In the EU and North America as well as rapidly-urbanizing emerging economies, the integration of 21st century technology into everyday life reshapes how people interface with cities, from the choice to commute or work remotely, to green transformation in vehicle technology.

In his talk, Dr. Kevin J. Krizek – Professor for Sustainable Planning and Design at the University of Colorado – will give a rationale for strategies to develop access-rich and low energy consumptive transport systems. He argues that designing streets around smaller vehicles will combat climate change and pollution, all while providing an economically sound way to preserve safety and equitable access to goods and services.

After a long hiatus due to Covid-19, we are pleased to meet once again for the Transatlantic Breakfast, where guest speakers present their theses for discussion over breakfast and coffee/tea.

We look forward to your lively participation!

This talk will be moderated by Timur Ohloff, Senior Policy Advisor of the Mobility Institute Berlin and Policy Fellow of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. (tbc)

Dr. Kevin J. Krizek is Professor for Sustainable Planning & Design at the University of Colorado. He currently serves as the Jefferson Science Fellow with the US State Department. His research has been awarded a three-year post as a visiting professor of “Cycling in Changing Urban Regions” (Radboud University, the Netherlands) and two Fulbright appointments (University of Bologna, Italy; EAFIT University, Medellin). He is the co-author/editor of four books, including Metropolitan Transport and Land Use (2018, 2nd ed.) and The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport. Krizek was a founding co-editor for the Journal of Transport and Land Use and spearheaded the forming of the World Society of Transport and Land Use Research.

For more information, please contact Deitra Myers, Referat EU/Nordamerika, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V. (myers@boell.de).