Urban Conversations

Urban Conversations Speaker: Garnette Cadogan In conversation with Teju Cole How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Geoff Boeing In conversation with Carole Voulgaris In his seminal 1965 article “A City Is Not a Tree,” design theorist Christopher Alexander argued that urban planners—working centrally and top-down—tend to design cities as...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Elizabeth Delmelle In conversation with Chris Herbert Why do similar homes in different Chicago neighborhoods sell for vastly different prices? Beyond property characteristics, a neighborhood's reputation, or the informal...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Jared Thorne In conversation with Daniel Agbiboa The state of Ohio prides itself as the gateway to the Midwest. When Jared Thorne began this project in 2015, he witnessed that Planned Parenthoods facilities draw a complicated...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Henry Grabar In conversation with Rachel Meltzer Why has it become so difficult to build housing in the American city, and what does this tell us about the country's larger problems building things? In this talk, journalist...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Elisa Tamburo In conversation with Diane E. Davis REGISTER HERE The talk examines the impacts of Chinese-led engagement in the construction sector in Kenya on city development, exploring which contested visions for the future...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Mariana Cavalcanti In conversation with Sidney Chalhoub REGISTER HERE Registration is required for this event. Lunch will be provided. About the Speakers Mariana Cavalcanti is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Jonathan Levy In conversation with Bruno Carvalho REGISTER HERE About the Event Ever since the first awareness of global warming, one of the fastest growing US metropolitan areas has been Houston, Texas, capital of the global...

Image Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS ID,1-KU.V,1-D-4 REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT About the Event This discussion will address how architecture has informed changing concepts of the right to exclude in American property law...

SPEAKERS: Gilson Rodrigues, Givanildo Pereira, Suéli Feio, and Rosilane Queiroz Soares Moderated by Bruno Carvalho REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT Join us to learn about how G10 Favelas, a Brazilian NGO inspired by the Group of Seven (G7), works to enact social...