In April 11th, the fifth annual conference on cities and modern urban realities will bring together scholars from architecture, civil engineering, sociology, and other disciplines, with practitioners whose work addresses the acute issues of urban life. In particular focus will be the subject of mobilities, including visible ones like cars, bikes, walking and crowds, as well as invisible ones like digital and mechanical networks.
Our Project Manager and Clumbia - SIPA student Bruna Santos will be there! Mobilities in Cities is hosted by Saskia Sassen, Co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought.
This conference is part of a larger project on Urbanizing Technology supported by the Audi Urban Future Initiative.
Program
10:00am: Urbanizing Technology. The Audi Urban Future Initiative
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
10:30am-12:00pm Today’s Mobility Spaces and Beyond
Urban Form, Transport Networks and Travel Demand: The Accessibility Nexus
Eric J. Miller, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Director, University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute, University of Toronto
Comparative Political Economy of Sustainable Transport
Walter Hook, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, New York
Moving beyond the ‘Car’
John Urry, Author of Societies beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures (Zed 2013) and Offshoring (Polity 2014)
12:15pm-1:15pm Transmobilities
Toward Transmobility
Adam Greenfield, Founder and managing director, Urbanscale and Senior Urban Fellow, LSE Cities
The Future of Urban Mobility in China
Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University
1:15pm-2:15pm Lunch Break
2:15pm-4:00pm Measuring, Making, Subverting Urban Futures
What does the Global Power City Index 2013 tell us about Mobility in New York, Tokyo and two other cities?
Hiroo Ichikawa, Dean, Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University and Executive Director, Mori Memorial Foundation, Japan
Moving Bits
Assaf Biderman, Associate Director, SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bogotá: Urban Space for a New Mobility
Diana Barco, Co-curator of the Audi Urban Future Initiative Bogotá project on mobility and urban fabric
Doris Tarchópulos, Co-curator and Co-director of the research, “Bogotá Urban Interactions and Future Mobility,” Audi Urban Future Initiative
4:15pm-5:45pm Programming Mobility
Reprogramming Mobility
Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute
Modes of Mobility: Restricted, Imposed, Ignored, Opened or Hacked
Claire Roberge, Researcher, Urbanizing Technology: The Mobility Complex
How Motion Came to Dominate Urban Space
Richard Sennett, University Professor of Humanities, New York University and Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
5:45pm Closing Remarks: What is next in this research project?
Saskia Sassen
Sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
The event is free and open to the public. No registration necessary. First come first seated.
For more information on this and other events, please visit cgt.columbia.edu
