Our committee meets monthly at the UN Church Center: 777 United Nations Plaza, NEW YORK NY 10017.
Arline L. Bronzaft, PhD will be speaking on "Urban noise: A global challenge".
Why is urban noise becoming an increasing quality-of-life issue in the world’s cities today, and what can urban planners do about this? Arline Bronzaft has had a 40-year career as a key environmental psychologist, an international expert on noise and its reduction, and the Chairperson of the Noise Committee of the Council on the Environment of NYC. Here, she reviews the behavioral impact of noise, and the NYC noise code she helped develop to reduce this impact.
9 Feb 2010, Tuesday 3 pm
777 U.N. Plaza (44 St. & 1st Ave), NYC
Following this month's meeting, members of the committee are participating in a forum taking place at Fordham University, "City Sounds: Noise in New York".
“How are New Yorkers impacted by the sounds of city life?” This panel brings together 5 diverse experts to review different aspects of this issue.
9 February 2010, Tuesday 6-7:30 pm
Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, room 1004
- Chair: Harold Takooshian, PhD, Chairperson, SPSSI-New York
- Welcomes:
- Delilah Hutson-Ellenberg, Fordham Psychology Assoc.
- Rosemary Wakeman, PhD, Director, Fordham Urban Studies
- Branislawa Balac, PhD, Chair, UN Human Settlements Committee
- Environment & behavior: Peter R. Walker, PhD
United Nations Human Settlements Committee - Impacts of urban din: Arline L. Bronzaft, PhD
Chair, Comm. on Noise, NYC Coun .on Environ. - The NYC noise code: Charles Shamoon, Esq.
NYC Dept Environmental Protection - Reducing noise pollution: Richard Tur
Founder, www.NoiseOff.org - Music in the city: Ron Dressler
Founder, www.BetterWorldChorus.org
More information here.
View selected photos from past Committee Meetings here.
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Monthly NYC speaker series: Since 2005, the monthly meeting of the NGO Committee on Human Settlements in NYC has featured an expert guest speaker on an array of topics related to human settlements:
2009
Jan 20: Aliye Pekin Celik, PhD - spoke on sustainable urban development.
Feb 10: Rick Bell, (FAIA) - spoke on “The connection between design and public health”.
Mar 10: Owen Gwyn, (FAIBCI) - spoke on “The Effect of Property Rights on Human Settlements”.
April 14: H.E. Dr. Juan R. Avila Ceballos, -Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations, spoke on “Dominican Republic: In Search of Goals and Objectives of Sustainable Development”
May 12: Mr. Remy Sietchiping,Ph.D, - spoke on “ Global Land Tool Network”
June 24: Side-event during the CONFERENCE ON THE WORLD FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT - URBAN ECOLOGY AND LAND TENURE
September 15th 2009: Sharon Young , Director of Global Housing Foundation. Lecture/Panel: “Affordable Housing: Private Sector Response”
October 5th 2009: Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development, “International Celebrations of World Habitat Day”.
October 20th 2009: Massimo Tavoni, PhD. “A Focus on Individuals Can Help Guiding Nations Towards A Low Carbon World”
November 10th 2009: Leo Manuelian “Helping overseas housing: Armenia”
December 15th 2009: Massimo Tavoni, PhD. Panel Discussion follow-up on the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, “Impact of Climate Change on Human Settlements”
2008
Jan 8: a. Richard May - (FAICP), Sustainability of the master plan for NYC.
b. Andy Troy - (meetup.com) urban social networking on the internet.
Feb 12: Yamina Djacta - (UN Habitat-NY), The UN Habitat agenda for 2008.
March 11: Armen Kharazian, (Armenian Assembly), Housing challenges overseas.
April 8: Arline Bronzaft (NYC Council on Environment), Urban noise reduction.
May 13: Sheri Koones - (author), Prefabulous housing.
June 24: Lou Nowikas - (Director of Real Estate Operations), Hearst Corporation.
Sept 16: Hon. Henry J. Stern - www.nycivic.org
Oct 14: Lou Nowikas - Curtis Sliwa on Safe cities: Citizens’ role in public safety.
Nov 16: No Guest Speaker - Elections are held
Dec 9: Rosemary G. Wakeman - Training students for urban studies in the 21st Century.
2007
Jan 16: Anita Thomas - 2 (CONGO), CONGO: Current plans.
Feb 13: Anita Thomas - 3 (CONGO), CONGO: Upcoming plans.
March 13: Carter Craft, (urban planner, www.waterwire.com), Waterfront NYC, 2030.
April 10: (1) Tim Wilkens (Global Housing Foundation), Financing houses for the working poor. (2) Ron Dressler (The June 21 Great NYC Sing!). (3) Justin Nobel (Environmental journalism).
May 8: a. Megan Marrero - (U.S. Satellite), teaching children about climate change.
b. Parviz Morewedge - (Rutgers), housing crisis in North Africa.
June 12: Enrico Campagnoli -Realty.
July 10: Joel Soden, (Parsons Brinckerhoff), Rebuilding New York.
Oct 1: World Habitat Day 2007 9 Presenters at the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium.
Nov 13: Joshua Lockwood, (NYC Habitat For Humanity) NYCHH VISION FOR 2008.
Dec 11: Jan Peterson -1 (Huairou Commission), Women in the habitat agenda for 2008.
2006
Jan: Diana Balmori (architect), Urban greenroofs
Feb: Liam Strain (Natl Parks Svc), Urban parks
March: Ozgem Ornektekin (engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff), Sustainable development in developing nations
April: Robert Levine (CSU-Fresno), Civil behavior: How do the world’s cities compare?
May: Peter R. Walker (psychologist, Connecticut), Defensible space.
Aug 29: Frederica Pietracci (UN-DESA Division of Sustainable Development), CSD: Upcoming plans.
Oct 2: UN World Habitat Day 2006. 10 presenters at the UN Dag Hammarskjold auditorium.
Nov 14: Symposium on green buildings, 6 participants + 14 student presenters.
Dec 12: Anita Thomas -1 (CONGO), CONGO + the Human Settlements Committee.
2005
Feb: Branca Balac (sociologist, Columbia), Health in favelas in Belgrade.
March: Harold Takooshian (psychologist, Fordham), Urban psychology and "nervous energy."
April: Stan Cohen (futurist, Earth Society), The Earth Society and world peace.
May: Janice E. Perlman (urban studies, World Bank), A 30-year study of a Brazilian favela.
June: Robert V. Levine (psychologist, CSU-Fresno), Village of Hope homeless self-help community.
July: N. David Milder (methodologist, Danth Consulting), Downtown revitalization: Why and how
Oct: Wendy Brawer (geographer), Greenmaps
Nov: Vahan Tanal, PE (Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff), socially responsible urban engineering