The Skyscraper Curse | Introduction
Mark Thornton's definitive work on booms and busts. His now-infamous Skyscraper Index theory draws the connection between loose monetary policy, artificially ...
LibertyInOurTime
The Powerful Case for a Society of Mutual Respect: Social Inequality (2004)
Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities ...
The Film Archives
Unequal Childhoods and Unequal Adulthoods with Annette Lareau
Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology Annette Lareau present "Unequal Childhoods and Unequal Adulthoods," ...
Penn Arts & Sciences
GSD Talks: Richard Sennett, “The Open City”
Cities should open up opportunities, connect people to new people, free us from the narrow confines of tradition — in a word, the city should deepen experience.
Harvard GSD
Martin J. Murray - Re-Urbanism in Africa: Building Cities from Scratch
Martin Murray is a tenured full professor of the Taubman College urban planning faculty. He began his academic career as sociologist with a strong foundation ...
YaleUniversity
Josep Lluis Sert Lecture: Jerold Kayden, "The Place of Planning"
Professor Kayden's lecture will explore the role over time of planning as profession, and how planning in the future may choose to distinguish itself in ...
Harvard GSD
68 Thesis topics in 5 minutes
Here are some thesis topics for You. Blessedarch TV, your one stop to Design, Art and Architecture. Hope you like this channel, happy exploring. LIKE SHARE ...
BlessedArch
"Preservation of History" Rem Koolhaas
Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard GSD.
Harvard GSD
What It Costs To Live In San Francisco | Making It
Perennially perched at or near the top of lists of America's most expensive and affluent cities, San Francisco is increasingly out of reach for people who would be ...
VICE News
Make no little plans
Director Judith Paine McBrien moderates a discussion among architects and planners following the screening of her film Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham ...
Boston Society of Architects/AIA
Strategic Urban Design: Problems in the processes used when identifying sites for development.
Paul Reynolds outlines flaws in the current development site selection and allocation process, particularly with regard to housing. Jas Bhalla describes the lack ...
UrbanNous
Meet the Renegades: Michael Hudson
With every major financial recovery since the second World War beginning in a place of greater debt than the one before it, how could we not have foreseen the ...
Renegade Inc.
SLUMS SYMPOSIUM SESSION 1: A Critical Analysis
Slums, A Critical Analysis part of Slums: New Visions for an Enduring Global Phenomenon symposium September 21, 2018 at Harvard University Alejandro de ...
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Symposium of Architectural History The Whiteness of 19th Century American Architecture
This symposium examines the racial discourses that subtended "American Architecture" movements during the long nineteenth century. Explore this site to learn ...
UBuffalo School of Architecture and Planning
Pier Vittorio Aureli - AA PhD Open Seminar Series - Part 6
Lecture date: 2012-11-27 Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Aldo Rossi's Architecture of the City A series of six lunchtime seminars ...
AA School of Architecture
David N. Pellow: Critical Environmental Justice
Professor David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen and Department Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the ...
Pitzer College
The Great Cooperation (Lecture 12 of 13) Murray N. Rothbard
The American Economy and the End Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II: Lecture 12, "The Great Cooperation" presented by Murray N. Rothbard at New York ...
LibertyInOurTime
Peter Ward - Rehabilitation & Densification in Consolidated Informal Settlements
In this lecture Peter Ward from The University of Texas at Austin presents data drawn from a nine-country/eleven city collaborative study that examines self-built ...
UN-Habitat worldwide
“heliomorphism” | Plug-ins
plug-ins Ralph Knowles's concept of the 'solar envelope' proposed a design tool that anticipates contemporary interests in parametricism and relational ...
Harvard GSD
African American Economics-The Debt That Is Owed: Solutions to Close the Racial Wealth Gap - ALC '19
Watch this informative session from the 2019 Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C..
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
PRACTICE: Outside In | Inside Out
This symposium considers discourse on contemporary issues of design practice in two parts: the external pressures of economic, environmental, and political ...
Harvard GSD
Arrival Cities and Neighbourhood Traps. 16th IRS International Lecture with Doug Saunders
How do cities manage the arrival and settlement of immigrants? This question is discussed by the Canadian journalist Douglas Saunders in his book “Arrival ...
Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung
Film, Space, Architecture (PART2/3)
27 April 2018 Symposium, Organised by Brian Hatton PART1: https://youtu.be/x4fkhpSj4gI PART3: https://youtu.be/l8BCFeWw790 This symposium will examine ...
AA School of Architecture
Minoan Cities in the Context of Comparative Urbanism
Michael E. Smith (Arizona State University) Minoan Cities in the Context of Comparative Urbanism Colloquium From Static Data to Dynamic Processes New ...
Institut Incal UCL
The effectiveness of the safety net and evidence for responsible policy | LIVE STREAM
How effective is America's social safety net? How should we reform entitlement programs so they are more effective and fiscally viable? In 2018, the American ...
American Enterprise Institute
Understanding America's Rural Urban Interface
America's rural-urban divide, it seems, has never been greater, a point reinforced by large geographic disparities in support for Donald Trump in the 2016 ...
SAGE Publishing
Keynote: Ruben Gallo (Princeton)
The symposium welcome and introductions are followed by the keynote address, “Mexico City: from Revolutionary Ruins to Global City and Back Again,” by ...
UC Berkeley Events
Don Mitchell: People’s Park, Still? On the Political Economy of Public Space
THE REYKJAVIK SYMPOSIUM:THE FUTURES OF PUBLIC SPACE Organized by the KTH Centre for the Future of Places, May 14, 2019 Tridib Banerjee, in his ...
KTH Centre for the Future of Places
Fast Forward Autumn 2019 | Gerald Blunt, Experiences in Urban Design
Fast Forward is a lecture series to foster debate, discussion and development within the disciplines of architecture, urban design and urban planning.
Creative Arts and Industries, the University of Auckland
Speculative Prices, Inflation, and Behavioral Economics
Renowned behavioral economist and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Robert J. Shiller delivered the inaugural Paul Volcker Lecture in Behavioral ...
Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Adrian Murray: Social Reproduction Theory and Working Class Organizing in Cape Town
While progressive coalitions continue to oppose neoliberal restructuring, organizing on the left remains fragmented and the underlying unity of the multitude of ...
Centre for International Policy Studies uOttawa
Geodemographics and the Internal Structure of Cities - Dr Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool
Developing models of city structure have a long history in urban geography and planning. In their contemporary form, geodemographic classification represent ...
Geography and Planning Cardiff University
Sharon Zukin Book Talk: The Innovation Complex
In her new book The Innovation Complex, sociologist Sharon Zukin examines how New York has become a supercity of the tech economy. Combining original ...
Skyscraper Museum
The Urban Design Group Campaign for Good Urban Form
Good urban form. What is it? Examining different levels of scale from the whole city, town or village, through a neighbourhood to the street and architectural and ...
UrbanNous
Open Borders, Local Closures: Municipal Curfews & the Lebanese Response to the Syrian Refugee Influx
Part of the Myron Weiner Seminar Series on International Migration with guest speaker Lama Mourad View the event transcript at ...
MIT Center for International Studies
Cambridge Talks IX: "Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis" Part 2
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars will explore the relationship between ...
Harvard GSD
Thinking Out Loud at HOK: Gary Clark, RIBA, on What Architects Can Do to Combat Climate Change
Gary Clark, chair of RIBA's Sustainable Futures Group and regional leader of Science + Technology for HOK in London, talks about climate change at the start of ...
HOK Network
Social Epistemology and intelligence - A philosophical inquiring
Intelligence and social knowledge – A philosophical inquiring on the social epistemological nature of intelligence as a state institution Pili G., (2019), ...
Scuola Filosofica
Patrick Geddes
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WikiWikiup
Sweet Taste of Liberty lecture by Caleb McDaniel
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with ...
FilsonHistoricalKY
Can Democracy Tame Twenty-First Century Capitalism?
Steven Klein draws together the thought of Austro-Hungarian political economist Karl Polanyi with the tradition of critical social theory to develop a vision of the ...
American Academy in Berlin
Jan Gehl keynote
Jan Gehl keynote at EDRA50.
The GovLab
