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Pragya
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Subject: AGI Annual Education Lecture at University College London 24th
May
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:46:29 +0100
From: Pragya Agarwal <[log in to unmask]>
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Please note that this year's AGI Annual Lecture hosted by the Department
of Geomatic Engineering, UCL, will be given by Professor Carl Steinitz,
the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and
Planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Date: 24th May 2007 at 6.00 pm followed by a drinks reception
Venue: Anatomy building, Anatomy J Z Young Lecture Theatre, University
College London
BIOGRAPHY
Professor Steinitz has devoted much of his academic and professional
career to improving methods by which planners and designers analyze
information about large land areas and make decisions about conservation
and development. His teaching encompasses such courses as Theories and
Methods of Landscape Planning and Visual Landscape Analysis and
Management. His applied research focuses on highly valued landscapes
that are undergoing substantial pressures for change. Professor Steinitz
has directed studies the Gunnison region of Colorado; the Monadnock
region of New Hampshire; The Snyderville Basin, Utah; Monroe County,
Pennsylvania; the region of Camp Pendleton, California, the western
Galilee in Israel; the Gartenreich Worlitz in Germany; the West Lake in
Hangzhou, China; and the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Sonora and
Arizona; Coiba National Park in Panama, the regions of La Paz and Loreto
in Baja California Sur, Mexico and Castilla La Mancha in Spain.. In
1984, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)
presented Professor Steinitz with the Outstanding Educator Award for his
“extraordinary contribution to environmental design education” and for
his “pioneering exploration in the use of computer technology in
landscape planning, especially in the areas of resource management and
visual impact assessment.” In 1996 he received the annual “Outstanding
Practitioner Award” from the International Society of Landscape Ecology
(USA). In 2002, he was honored as one of Harvard University’s
outstanding teachers. Professor Steinitz is principal author of
“Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes”, Island Press, 2003.
ABSTRACT
This talk will be in two parts. In the first part, Prof. Carl Steinitz
will describe and show diverse work from the earliest years of the
Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics, in which much of early GIS was
developed around forty years ago. In the second part, the speaker will
present some thoughts about an important tension now facing geographical
analysts--some forty years later. There are many ways to analyze
geographically related subjects, and Prof. Steinitz believes that there
is an inverse relationship between analytic complexity and public
understanding. To quote Aristotle: "It is the mark of an instructed mind
to rest satisfied with that degree of precision which the nature of the
subject admits, and not to seek exactness where only an approximation of
the truth is possible". How can we consider this dilemma? How do we
chose the appropriate compromise between complexity and understanding?
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Dr Pragya Agarwal
Lecturer in GIScience
Director, MSc (GIS)
Department of Geomatic Engineering
University College London
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Phone: +44 20 7679 2730 (internal:32730)
Fax: +44 20 7380 0453
Email: pagarwal at ge.ucl.ac.uk <http://ge.ucl.ac.uk>
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Dr Pragya Agarwal
Lecturer in GIScience
Director, MSc (GIS)
Department of Geomatic Engineering
University College London
London WC1E 6BT
UK
Phone: +44 20 7679 2730 (internal:32730)
Fax: +44 20 7380 0453
Email: pagarwal at ge.ucl.ac.uk <http://ge.ucl.ac.uk>
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