urban sociology
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort

Six of the minds behind the New York installment of an international traveling laboratory for urban experimentation discuss the theme of comfort in urban space.

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Living in the Endless City: Mumbai, São Paulo and Istanbul

Last week, I found myself in an almost endless queue of people hopeful to see a panel of international urban dons assembled at the London School of Economics to celebrate the launch of the book Living in the Endless City

Intelligent Cities

Susan Piedmont-Palladino and Scott Kratz talk about a National Building Museum initiative to explore how we live in cities today and how to make better decisions for our future.

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Cities: Lapham, Krulwich, Dolkart and Inaba

At the outset of Cities, a conversation on the future of urbanism hosted by Columbia’s Studio-X, moderator Mark Wigley toasted to forging new friendships in a coming era of dynamic, if uncertain, city design. Considering the cumulative intellectual…

A Walk up Avenue D

Sociologist Dalton Conley takes us on a walk through the public housing complexes where he grew up, reflecting on the economics of housing policy and the limits of design.

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A Walk with
Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett takes us on a walk through the West Village.

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