The Urban Systems Symposium took place in New York City on May 11th and 12th, 2011.
The Urban Systems Collaborative emerged from that meeting, find out more on the wiki, and participate on the group blog.
Jul 12th, 2011
How else does one handle oneself at a “first meeting of an organization that does not yet exist?”
Notes from the 2011 Urban Systems Symposium, by Jared Rodriguez, Research Assistant, New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate, Center for the Sustainable Built Environment. See also free-form notes from Catherine Cunningham. What is a “smart city?” Is it possible to achieve a smart city, one that is fully self-aware, where such city’s inhabitants, living [...]
May 13th, 2011
Watch again: Wednesday at the Symposium
We will upload each of the individual panels as short videos on YouTube, in the meantime watch the archived video stream from Wednesday 11th here. This video covers the first four panels, we’ll add the second half soon.
May 13th, 2011
Watch again: Thursday at the Symposium
This recording of Day Two at the Urban Systems Symposium includes: Introductory comments by Richard Saul Wurman Starting at ~33 minutes, Defining Urban Systems, a panel discussion with John Tolva, IBM; Stewart Brand, GBN; Benjamin de la Peña, Rockefeller Foundation; Paul Romer, Charter Cities; Anthony Townsend, Institute For the Future; Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute. [...]
May 12th, 2011
What happens next?
Send to Frank Hebbert (frank@openplans.org) and cc: Colin Harrison (harrisco@us.ibm.com): notes from the workgroup sessions presentations and related documents Let Frank know if you don’t want us to publish your contact details to the rest of the community. Watch the website A blogging function to continue the conversation Presentations and related documents Summary of [...]
May 11th, 2011
Slides will be posted later today
If you’re hoping to take a closer look at the slides used in the panels today, we’ll be posting them here at the end of the day. We’ll also post a longer, more thoughtful wrap-up. Send us a tweet if you’ve blogged elsewhere and we’ll feature you here.
May 10th, 2011
Watch the Symposium online
Check the Symposium site tomorrow for a live video feed from the panels. You can also follow the #urbansys hashtag for the latest updates from participants at the event.
May 10th, 2011
Get social
We’re using Lanyrd for the Symposium. It’s a social conference directory, you can track other participants and see what other events they are attending or organizing. Neat stuff.
May 5th, 2011
Over to you: workshop discussions
On the second day of the Symposium we’ll break into workshop groups. Five parallel sessions will explore themes from the first day, then we’ll regroup after lunch to report back. Here’s a preview of a few of the issues each session will dig into: New Theories of Cities will explore different approaches to modeling city [...]
Apr 29th, 2011
Panels and panelists
The Symposium includes eight panels, discussing aspects of urban systems from planning to modeling. See the running order of the panels in the Program, or dive into any panel below to read a brief framing question and bios of the panelists and moderator: Planning and Design Issues Engineering and Construction Issues Real Estate Development and [...]
Apr 28th, 2011
Attention architects: AIA credits available
Attending the Urban Systems Symposium is worth 13 CE units. Sign up at reception.
