2025 Morton B. Gulak Lecture: "Building Adaptive Community Capacity in Stressful Times"
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: VCU University Student Commons Commons Theater
907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA 23284
Please join the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at the 2025 Morton B. Gulak Lecture in Urban and Regional Planning. The event will feature Barbara Brown Wilson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia.
During this timely discussion, she'll explore creative and successful co-design tactics for working with neighborhoods, towns, and rural regions grappling with socio-environmental crises.
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Check-in for the lecture begins at 2:45 p.m. Post-reception is 5-5:30 p.m.
Questions? Contact Katie Huynh, senior event manager, at wilderschool@vcu.edu.
About the presenter
Barbara Brown Wilson is an associate professor of urban and environmental planning at the UVA School of Architecture, and co-founder of the UVA Center for Community Partnerships. Her research is often change-oriented, meaning she collaborates with partners to identify opportunities to move their communities toward just transitions and positive transformations. She is the author of Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community-Driven Design and a proud board member for the Community Climate Collaborative (C3).
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About the Morton B. Gulak Lecture
The Wilder School brings leading experts in planning, architecture, or urban design to VCU each year through the annual Morton B. Gulak Lecture in Urban and Regional Planning.
Launched in 2013, the lecture series honors the memory of Morton B. Gulak, Ph.D., who helped found the Master in Urban and Regional Planning program more than 40 years ago.
Gulak, who passed in 2012, taught at VCU for 38 years. He inspired legions of students in the areas of urban design, urban revitalization, physical planning, and the application of professional planning methods.
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