Jeff Speck
FLORENCE – City planner and urban designer Jeff Speck will be the guest speaker for the
Sunseri Speaker Series, hosted by the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering at the
University of North Alabama. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Norton Auditorium on the UNA campus.
“The Sunseri Speaker Series seeks to engage speakers who provide discourse on topics that provide interconnectedness with arts/humanities and STEM fields,” said Dr. Sara Lynn Baird, Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. “The Sunseri Speaker Series is made possible through a generous donation from UNA alumnus David Sunseri, who sponsored the series at UNA in order to honor his late sister, Jennifer Leigh Sunseri.”
Speck is the co-author of Suburban Nation, which has been called “the urbanist bible by The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of Walkable City, which was the bestselling cityplanning title of the last decade. Speck served as Director of Design at the U.S. National
Endowment for the Arts from 2003 until 2007. It was there that he presided over Mayor’s Institute on City Design and created the Governor’s Institute on Community Design.
“Conversations about effective city planning and combining residential and commercial properties with walkable places impact city economies, social engagement, sustainable communities, and environmental issues,” Baird said. 
More on Jeff Speck, his books and articles as well as selected projects, is available here.
The event is free; no registration is required. The doors at Norton will open at 5 p.m.
In addition to CASE, this event is also sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Media Release/Ms. Michelle R. Eubanks
Director
Media and Public Relations
UNA
