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Obstacles to Building Equitable Cities with Enrique Peñalosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgvqMFVdp0&feature=youtu.be
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reSITE 2013 Conference | Metropolis Central: Infinite Resources
City Planning Talks, Mayors Talks , Urban Design Talks
Enrique Peñalosa
Enrique Peñalosa on Why Equality in Cities Begins with Sidewalks, Michael Kimmelman on Democracy and Public Spaces, Bianca Wylie on the Power of the Collective, Why Public Space Belongs to People with Michael Sorkin
Remembering a Bright Urbanist Mind: Michael Sorkin, Emmanuel Pratt on Regenerating Urban Ecology, Bianca Wylie on the Critical Design Process of Democracy in Smart Cities, Enrique Peñalosa on the Democracy of Sidewalks and Bike Lanes
For Enrique Peñalosa, improving cities means increasing the quality of life in public spaces that create equality between citizens. He argues that inequality is the biggest obstacle to creating cities with a healthy democracy, especially when the last hundred years we’ve built our cities for cars and not people.
Adam Greenfield on the Dangers of Smart Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6z2S1Y1IgQ&feature=youtu.be
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reSITE 2014 Conference | Cities and Landscape of the New Economy
City Planning Talks, Urban Design Talks, reSITE Special Lectures
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Adam Greenfield challenges the popular concept of “smart cities”, warning against the danger it posses of strictly central planning. He argues that as a discourse, smart cities have nothing to do with cities, treating our urban environments as a market commodity.
Hiroki Matsuura on Prioritizing People in the Shared Landscape
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reSITE 2015 Conference | The Shared City
Landscape Architecture Talks, Urban Design Talks
Hiroki Matsuura
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A New Generation of Architects with Chris Precht, Yosuke Hayano on How Architecture Can Create Emotional Connections to Nature, Six Ways to Create Healthier Cities, Meet The Up-and-Coming Green-Powered Regenerators
Hiroki Matsuura, CEO and founder of MADMA urbanism + landscape, ideas of shared development, shared space, and shared office, which they see as linked to urban design, landscape, and architecture, respectively. He emphasizes the importance of designing to maintain as much green space as possible, rather than retrospectively adding it after other steps of the design process.
Enrique Peñalosa on Why Equality in Cities Begins with Sidewalks
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reSITE 2013 Conference | Metropolis Central: Infinite Resources
City Planning Talks, Mayors Talks
Enrique Peñalosa
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In order to create equitable urban spaces, citizens' ability to move freely and safely throughout the city is paramount. Enrique Peñalosa, the former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia discusses the important of learning from the disastrous mistakes of 20th-century urbanization.
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