Moving Towards Utopina: What Kind of City Lies Ahead?

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? Information: (212) 854-2037 http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1004.html#0414