UNIVERSITY NEWS - APRIL 2005

MEDIA CONTACT: Terry Gearing
561-799-8026, gearing@fau.edu

FAU's Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions Presents Walter Kulash Lecture
"Good Bones: Pretty Faces, Great Places"

JUPITER, FL (April 5, 2005) - Florida Atlantic University's Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions will present traffic engineer Walter Kulash on Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. in the MacArthur Auditorium, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter. Kulash will share his vision of transportation design that provides for the needs of motorists and pedestrians alike, and of systems that respect the human need for the presence of beauty. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Walter Kulash is a principal and senior traffic engineer with the Orlando-based community-planning firm of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, Inc. A licensed professional engineer with an academic background in engineering at North Carolina State University and Northwestern University, Kulash has worked on traffic and transit planning projects throughout the United States and Canada. Clients include private developers, local and state governments and non-governmental agencies.

Since the early 1990's, Kulash has specialized in the rapidly emerging field of "livable traffic" design. This view of traffic engineering recognizes that the narrow traffic planning goals of the past few decades -- moving the most traffic at the greatest possible speed -- are giving way to a far more inclusive view. In the new view of traffic engineering, traffic performance is balanced against other desired qualities of the street, such as its value as an "address," its retail friendliness and its role as a premiere public space of the community.

A reception with light refreshments precedes the lecture at 6 p.m. Reservations are suggested. For questions or to RSVP, contact 561-799-8526 or email emmaietta@fau.edu.

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