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Osher Map Library Lecture on Mapping the City

April 8, 2005

Theo Holtwijk, a landscape architect and town planner in Maine, will speak on "Mapping the City: Space, Place and Time" as part of the University of Southern Maine Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Tenth Anniversary Lecture Series. Holtwijk will speak at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 19 on the 7th Floor of USM's Glickman Family Library, Forest Ave, Portland. A reception will precede the lecture at 6 p.m.

Holtwijk's lecture will incorporate his extensive background in urban planning as he interprets the development of five hundred years of city maps drawn from the Osher Map Library's collections and his personal collection.

Holtwijk is director of Planning and Development for the Town of Brunswick, and previously held the same post for the Town of Sanford. He also teaches urban planning courses at the USM Muskie School of Public Service. In 2003, he served as a Mellon Foundation Fellow at Bates College.

A native of The Netherlands, he received is B.A. degree in geography and M.A. degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Utrecht. As a Fulbright Scholar, he received a degree in landscape architecture from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

He co-authored and edited "Bold Vision: The Development of the Parks of Portland, Maine" an award-winning book on the development of the parks in Portland with Earle Shettleworth, director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, and in 2001 he was the recipient of the Casco Bay Estuary Award.

For access inquiries and other information please call (207) 780-4850 or TTY (207) 780-5646. Free parking is also available at the USM Parking Garage. Bring your parking ticket to the library to be validated.

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