top: Former CED deans Professor Harrison Fraker and Professor Emeritus Sam Davis 69 with current CED dean Jennifer Wolch. (Photo: Adrianne Koteen)

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1 The 50th Anniversary Gala on February 6, 2010, launched the 50th Anniversary Student Support Fund. The CED community enjoyed toasting the birthday of the college and a sustainable meal catered by Back to Earth. After dinner, alumni fondly reminisced about their time at CED. above: The UC Berkeley Blake Estate in Kensington, CA. right: Paul Sedway ( 60) with Doris Lee and Ted Lee ( 66). (Photo: Adrianne Koteen) below: Cocktails inside the Blake Estate. 24 FRAMEWORKS

2 top: Former CED deans Professor Harrison Fraker and Professor Emeritus Sam Davis 69 with current CED dean Jennifer Wolch. (Photo: Adrianne Koteen) center left: Caitlin Brostrom ( 90) and UC VP Nathan Brostrom with CED Gala Committee Co-Chair Bob Lalanne ( 78). (Photo: Adrianne Koteen) center right: Michael Woo ( 75), Dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly, Pomona, discusses his education at CED. left: Allison Williams ( 76) design director of Perkins + Will in San Francisco, with Katherine and John Kriken ( 61) a consulting partner at SOM. (Photo: Adrianne Koteen) college of environmental design 50th anniversary 25

3 top left: University of Chicago Professor Emerita of Art History Barbara Strafford, who lectured about cognition and design imagery during the 50th Anniversary Spring Program, with Millicent Chase- Lalanne. top right: Rob Steinberg ( 77), Steinberg Architects and Alice Erber, Co-chairs of the Gala committee bottom left: Professor Michael Dear (left) and UC Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer. bottom right: Zette Emmons ( 73), Sadie Super Wurster ( 70) and Luli Emmons ( 72) at the Blake Estate. The group then gathered to hear a talk entitled The Next Economy: Transforming Energy and Infrastructure Investment, by Bruce Katz, Vice President of the Brookings Institution and Founding Director of its Metropolitan Policy Program. Katz sees The Great Recession as an opportunity to reinvent the American economy and reestablish the nation s place in the world. He spoke about four things that are vital to this goal. Katz first challenged the audience to visualize an economy where more firms in more sectors trade more goods and services seamlessly with the world, particularly with the rising nations that are rapidly urbanizing and industrializing. Second, he asked everyone to imagine a world where America not only leads the global transition to sustainable growth but uses breakthroughs in technology and practice to spark a 26 FRAMEWORKS

4 production revolution at home, and drive wealth creation and sustainable growth. He then proposed that the next economy will be rooted in and led by metropolitan America. The real heart of the American economy 100 metropolitan areas that after decades of growth take up only 12 percent of our land mass harbor two-thirds of our population and generate 75 percent of our gross domestic product. This is the new economic geography, enveloping city and suburb, exurb and rural town in one seamlessly integrated whole. Finally Katz proposed that to build the next economy, the U.S. must connect macro vision to metro reality, the macro to the metro. The U.S. needs a playbook that is uniquely aligned to our entrepreneurial nation, where quality growth and jobs emerge from the DNA of below: Brookings Institution Vice President Bruce Katz, who regularly advises national, state, regional, and municipal leaders on urban policy reforms. (Photo: Adrianne Koteen) The people in this room and the sectors and constituencies you represent are illustrative of the energy and potential of metropolitan America. Bruce Katz college of environmental design 50th anniversary 27

5 Our challenge is to convert the dynamism in this metropolis into solutions that are pragmatic, far reaching and critical to this moment. We must move as quickly as possible to change the mental map of our nation from a constitutional union of 50 states to an economic network of highly connected, hyperlinked, and seamlessly integrated metropolitan areas. Bruce Katz metropolitan America: private firms, research institutions, investors, governments, trade associations, philanthropy, and labor. Katz presented a compelling and inspiring case for the vital importance of supporting CED and the University of California as a whole. Our institutions, he argued, are essential to reestablishing California s economy and place as a world leader in intellectual and socially beneficial thought. Just a day after presenting the same case to Governor Schwarzenegger, Katz stated that CED is, a unique, pragmatic, grounded voice in the coming debate over jobs and economy and investment. Let that voice be heard! We are grateful to all who made the 50th Anniversary Gala a most memorable evening and who contributed founding gifts to the 50th Anniversary Student Support Fund. We are also grateful to our leadership committee, which helped to make the gala possible. 50th Anniversary Gala Leadership Committee Co-Chairs Robert ( 78) and Millicent Lalanne Robert Steinberg ( 77) and Alice Erber Lydia Tan ( 83) and John Barton ( 83) Members Caitlin Lempres-Brostrom ( 90) and Nathan Brostrom Mary Corley ( 95) and Jeff Bond Cordelia Hill ( 79) Brad Inman Fred ( 68) and Beth ( 66) Karren Richard ( 68) and Bonnie Keating John ( 61) and Katherine Kriken Janet Moody ( 81) and John McMurtry ( 83) Judd Williams ( 90) and Anne Bonaparte Robert ( 68) and Sheryl ( 67) Wong top: Gala committee members Richard ( 68) and Bonnie Keating bottom: Michael Painter (B.S. Landscape Architecture 56) reminisces about the history of LAEP. 28 FRAMEWORKS