MEDIA ADVISORY


TWO U.VA. ARCHITECTURE FACULTY PARTICIPATING
IN U.N. HABITAT II CONFERENCE EVENTS

	Two University of Virginia School of Architecture faculty
members are playing key roles related to the second worldwide United
Nations Conference on Human Settlements and the precarious state of
many of the world's cities, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, next
month.

	Architecture dean William A. McDonough, an internationally
known innovator and advocate of sustainable design and development,
will deliver the keynote address at the World Business Forum in
Istanbul on June 1, in conjunction with the U.N. Habitat II ("City
Summit") Conference. He will address business leaders and leaders of
nonprofit groups on the role of global business in environmentally
sustainable development and the future of cities.  The private
sector forum is a preliminary event of the U.N. conference,
scheduled for June 3-14.

	Ayse Pamuk, U.Va. assistant professor of urban and
environmental planning and an authority on sustainable development,
housing policy and human settlement in less developed countries,
will participate in U.N. conference programs on the future of the
world's cities and model practices for improving human settlements.
She is a member of the preparatory committee that has advised the
conference's U.S. delegation that will be headed by Housing and
Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros.

	The themes of the U.N. conference are providing sustainable
human settlements in a rapidly urbanizing world and providing
adequate shelter for all.  It is projected that within 30 years more
than two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities.  A
Global Plan of Action will be adopted by the conference.

	McDonough will return to U.Va. June 4.  He may be reached at
(804) 924-7019.

	Pamuk may be reached at (804) 924-6457.  She will be away
from May 28-June 17. 

	For assistance in arranging interviews please contact Bob
Brickhouse at U.Va. News Services at (804) 924-6856.  Television
reporters should contact our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.

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May 24, 1996