APT LA 2009

November 2-6, 2009

Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles

Preservation in the City Without Limits  

For detailed conference information and on-line registration visit www.apti.org. 

Los Angeles represents the quintessential American city of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Technological and social changes allowed an interconnected, yet scattered, collection of towns and villages to grow (sprawl) into one of the world's major metropolitan regions comprising five counties. At the hub of this metropolitan agglomeration, Los Angeles invites rigorous debate between those seeing an urban utopia and those who envision a dystopian nightmare of race riots, air pollution, traffic jams, endless sprawl, and rapidly increasing density. Somewhere in the middle, for better or worse, lies the real Los Angeles, the model for the post-war 20th century American metropolis and (sometimes considered jaded) blueprint for the World City.  The APT LA 2009 Conference in Los Angeles will address the scientific, engineering and technical ramifications of preserving the modern metropolis and its expansive body of historic resources through the four Conference tracks in the program.