Centenary Lecture Series: 'Understanding Urbanization' with Neil Brenner

To celebrate one hundred years of The Bartlett School of Planning, throughout the 2013-14 academic year, the School will be hosting its Centenary Lecture Series, bringing together some of the world's leading figures in planning and urban design research.
Neil Brenner is professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University, where he teaches classes on critical urban theory, urban political economy, and socio-spatial theory; and is Director of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard GSD where he works closely with architects, landscape architects, planners, and cartographers to develop new approaches to understanding, representing, and influencing contemporary urban transformations.
Find out more about the Centenary celebrations on The Bartlett website at www.bartlett.uc...

[@mustafasarkisla]

Exciting approach. I am going to dive deep into this strategy. I wonder if all those empty areas will ever be urbanized.

[@evanritchie9722]

Watching this for my urbanization class, his words are so big idk whats going on

[@maxwellritchie2538]

ok

[@legojayman]

Wow what a lecture! Very interesting to think about as I learn more about Urbanism

[@AntiochsAdvocate]

This entire lecture could’ve happened in like a third of the time

[@yuyanlin3035]

does anyone know that what the name of that book is

[@emilian7421]

Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization

[@bbyng7316]

Society is completely urbanised, sure. Country as in, "Town& Country" has been subsumed by Urban Planners. As if to underline the point, MSc courses are called ,"urban" something or other. Agrarian worker's lives are totally alien to urban dwellers. (FF to 46 mins in). As long as the developed world subsidises food, countryside alienation will continue; urban dwellers are encouraged towards obesity and devalued food causes waste. Engles also talked about payment for the cost of the means of production, not wanton subsidy. The planet and the agrarian world doesn't stand a chance unless we honestly start paying for what we consume. To start, urban dwellers need to reaquaint themselves with all things countryside.

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