Saskia Sassen: University of Michigan Taubman College Future of Urbanism

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, presented March 20, 2010 at the Future of Urbanism conference.

University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning hosted the Future of Urbanism conference on March 19 & 20, 2010. An international roster of speakers academics and practitioners addressed some of the most critical issues facing our cities and their environs in six sessions, comprised of 15-minute segments and a panel discussion. Topics included: Urban and Regional Ecologies; Just Cities; MEGACITY / shrinking city; New Publics / New Public Spaces; Urban Imaginary; and Cities as Theaters for Conflict. The presentations were free and open to the public. For more information about the event: www.taubmancollege.umich.edu/futureofurbanism

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[leolies]

It's a wonderful presentation from a woman professor who has a great idea on the various utilization of the urban social spaces that is not for benefials in economic, social, politics, but also the social spaces invite the negative utilization.

[dahlanhamsinah]

I'm one of Saskia's funs. I admire her and her ideas on public space. It's a very newest idea, from her speech, on the public space that is not only contested by various social groups and individuals in most of the cities in the World. But, the public, social, spaces nowadays become as multi-war places as well so the powelessness becomes more, and more complex.