Sylvester Baxter Lecture: Kate Orff, “Toward an Urban Ecology”
Kate Orff, MLA ’97, RLA, is the founder of SCAPE, a landscape architecture and urban design…
Topic Social Equity
Ethics of the Urban
Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities bearers of our values?…
Abstract from the Concrete
Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his lecture with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China…
Architect as agent of change: Michael Murphy’s TED Talk emphasizes architecture’s power to heal
Earlier this year, Michael Murphy (MArch ’11) joined visionaries like former vice president Al Gore…
New Towns Initiative
New towns have been a dominant concept in urban planning throughout the 20th…
“New Geographies 08: Island” Launch
This volume marks the end of a three year long trilogy that included NG06: Grounding…
New Issues for the Future of the City
Barcelona, Metropolis of Cities The Department of Urban Planning and Design is promoting a wide-ranging debate to highlight the extent to which twenty-first-century ecological, economic, and social issues are giving shape to new urban forms. Concerns for the environment, energy, sustainable mobility, and social equity…
Representing Force: Lebbeus Woods and the Havana Projects
by Eliyahu Keller (MDes '16) “I don’t care very much about building buildings. I care about…
Senior Loeb Scholar Lecture: HCGBC Annual Lecture by Richard Rogers
Lloyd's of London, escalators. Photo: Paul Raftery. Richard Rogers is a founding…
The Storm, the Strife and Everyday Life: Sea Change in the Suburbs
This studio took stock of how Long Island is changing, and worked with community-based organizations…