Transforming the Metropolis: Creating Sustainable and Humane Cities - Houston, 2-4 March 2009 02-03-2009, Source: Urbanicity.org Introduction For the first time in history, more than half of the world's population now
lives in urban areas. At this defining moment in the history of cities, the De
Lange Conference will ask many of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners
of innovative urban solutions to engage in a dialogue on the concept of
sustainable and humane cities.
Description
Specifically, this conference will pose the following questions:
The De Lange 2009 Conference will examine the transformational influences
these emerging changes may entail. A rich mixture of subject specialists with
unique perspectives will enliven and enrich this exploration. The De Lange
Conference will have a historical perspective as well as be forward-looking and
self-reflective; the conference will reveal that transforming the metropolis is
of enormous consequence and relevant to the rethinking of fundamental
assumptions that structure our understanding of the world and facilitate new
discovery.
The following topics will be addressed by some of the world's foremost
thinkers:
Organized and hosted by the Rice University Center on Race, Religion, and
Urban Life; Center for the Study of Environment and Society; Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering; School of Architecture and the Rice Design
Alliance; Department of Sociology; and the University of Houston College of
Architecture.
Programme
Location
The De Lange Conference VI will be held at Rice University in the Alice Pratt
Brown Hall in the Shepherd School building:
Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Shepherd School Rice University 6100 Main Street Houston, Texas 77005 Register Links Click here to be redirected to the conference websiteClick here for information on the Houston areaClick here to visit the Rice University websiteback |
