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Bringing together two leading urban theorists, the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design has announced a discussion featuring Richard Florida and Adam Greenfield. Held at the Isabel Bader theatre on November 21st, "What shapes the city?" will analyze "which emerging forms of expertise and technology can claim the most promising and comprehensive purview over the planning, design and transformation of cities."
Richard Florida, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, and a Global Research Professor at New York University, is recognized as one of the world's pre-eminent urban thinkers. Founder of the Creative Class Group, Florida also works as a senior editor for The Atlantic, and has many published books, including 2002's internationally renowned The Rise of the Creative Class. He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State University, and George Mason University, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Florida's upcoming book, The New Urban Crisis, will be released next year.
Author and Urbanscale founder Adam Greenfield is known for 2013's best-settling Against the smart city, with his next book, Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, set to be released in the Spring. Greenfield's professional experience includes a stint as Nokia's head of design direction for service and interface design, and as lead information architect for Razorfish. He's also worked as a psychological operations specialist in the United States Army's Special Operations Command, as a rock critic, and as a bike courier. Greenfield has lectured at a wide variety of institutions, including Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, among others.
The lecture will take place Monday, November 21st, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM at the Isabel Bader theatre, at 93 Charles Street West. Tickets for the free event are available via Eventbrite.
