The New Metropolitan Scale, with Pedro B. Ortiz
Sponsored by Marron Institute of Urban Management
Date:
November 15, 2018Time:
5:00pm - 6:00pmLocation:
Kimmel Center for Student Life, 60 Washington Square South (Rm 905), New York, NY 10012
The Marron Institute of Urban Management and the Urban Planning Student Association invite you to participate in a conversation with world-renowned urban planner, Pedro B. Ortiz, author of "The Art of Shaping the Metropolis."
Cities are growing very fast, some doubling in size as quickly as every 14 years. While prior to the 20th century there were only 3 cities that had reached 1 million inhabitants (Rome, Beijing, and London), what we now call metropolises, now there are 500. Governance, socioeconomics, spatial design, planning, and management, are radically different for metropolises than cities; it is a new scale of design for urban professionals.
The objectives of this event are:
- Providing an insight of the new field of professional development for urban studies students
- Understanding the new scale of design in the framework and extrapolation of the previous scales of architecture, urban design, and urban planning
- Describing the integration of spatial design and planning with non-tangible disciplines as economics, sociology, and governance at the metropolitan scale
- Discussing processes affecting metropolises all around the world, and how urban professionals can develop a global practice responding to these phenomena.
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