MOVING TOWARD UTOPIA: What King of City Lies Ahead?
PANELISTS INCLUDE: Tom Angotti, Nancy Levinson, & Bill Menking
Moderated By David Smiley

A new concept of the city has emerged among contemporary urbanists.
Architects and planners now frame the city not as a set of independently
regulated functions but as a mesh of landscapes, spaces, and policies.
Streets, paths, parks, and infrastructure are elements of a constantly
shifting system that joins the particularities of place and overarching
social goals. In this new environment, planning tactics, management
techniques, policy goals, and fiscal strategies continuously interact.
Building on the Fall 2009 “Rights of Way” symposium, “Moving Toward
Utopia” addresses questions of power, health, equity, and ecology that
confront and are fueled by new design strategies. “Moving Toward Utopia”
will bring together a distinguished group of urban thinkers to examine
the implications of new approaches to the design of public spaces. What
kind of city lies ahead?

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