Mark yr calendars: Thursday,
April 5th is the 2012 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism, to be given by New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner
Janette Sadik-Khan. The 8th annual lecture is presented by the Graduate Program in Urban Design,
Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York (CCNY), and will be held in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall at CCNY, Convent Hall at 138th Street. It's free, open to the public, and no reservations are necessary.
Previous Lewis Mumford Lectures:
2011 -
Richard Sennett: "
The Edge: Borders and Boundaries in the City" (video
archive available)
2010 - No lecture
2009 -
Paul Auster: "
City of Words"
2008 -
David Harvey: "The Right to the City" (audio
podcast available)
2007 -
Amartya Sen: "
The Urbanity of Calcutta" (audio
podcast available)
2006 -
Enrique Peñalosa: "A New Urban Paradigm: Building a Just and Sustainable Metropolis"
2005 -
Mike Davis: "Planet of Slums"
2004 -
Jane Jacobs
