[Mitworld] New: Gary Hack on the History of Urban Studies and Planning a MIT, Panel of Sustainability

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[THE HISTORY OF MIT'S DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING]

In this lively talk, Gary Hack recounts the colorful 75-year tale of the
Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.

SPEAKER:
Gary Hack PhD '76
Dean of the School of Design and Paley Professor of City & Regional
Planning University of Pennsylvania


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/573/>

[QUOTE]
"Over the next 30 years, 70% of the new population and 80% of new jobs
will land in 10 mega-regions in the US. We must think about those as new
entities. We are poorly equipped. Regional-spatial planning went out,
and we must revive it."
-- Gary Hack


EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning
<http://dusp.mit.edu/>

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[SUSTAINING CITIES: ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND EMPOWERMENT]

This panel of urban scholars provides an in depth look at the concept of
sustainability, and considers a framework of environmental and economic
justice on a global scale.

MODERATOR:
Lawrence J. Vale SM '88
Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
School of Architecture and Planning
Margaret MacVicar Fellow

PANELISTS:
Judith Layzer Ph.D. '99
Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy,
MIT

Jason Corburn S.M. '96, Ph.D. '02
Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning,
University of California, Berkeley

J. Phillip Thompson
Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, MIT

Chris Zegras '01 SM, MCP, PhD '05
Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban
Planning, MIT

Adil Najam CE'96, PhD' 01
Fredrick Pardee Professor of Global Policy and Director, Pardee Center
for the Study of Long-Term Future, Boston University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/574/>

[QUOTE]
"At 24 acres, the per capita ecological footprint of the average U.S.
citizen is 5 times the world average, and almost 10 times what would be
environmentally sustainable. So we need many, many earths if everybody
on the earth is going to live the way we do."
-- Judith Layzer


EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning
<http://dusp.mit.edu/>

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Department of Architecture
Goldstein Architecture, Engineering, and Science Lecture presents

Werner Sobek
Engineer, Werner Sobek Ingenieure
Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design

High-Eco-Tech: Building Avant la Garde

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