FP Lecture Series of CEPT University, it is our pleasure to invite you for a session on “Transforming Cities / Transforming Urbanism” by Dr. Aseem Inam. Kindly note details of the session:
Topic:Transforming Cities / Transforming Urbanism
Speaker:Dr. Aseem Inam
Date:Tuesday, 3rd Janauary 2017
Time:6:30 to 7:45 pm
Venue: Auditorium, CEPT University
Speaker Profile:
Aseem Inam is the Director of TRULAB: Laboratory for Designing Urban Transformation. He was the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, and the founding director of the highly innovative MA Theories of Urban Practice Program at Parsons School of Design in New York. Dr. Inam is the author of the books, Planning for the Unplanned, and Designing Urban Transformation, several journal articles and book chapters, including in the recent books, The Emerging Asian City, and Companion to Urban Design. His work has received awards from the SOM Foundation, the American Planning Association, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has practiced as an architect, urban designer and planner in Brazil, Canada, France, Greece, Haiti, India, Morocco and the United States.
Brief of the talk:
How do we truly transform cities? To generate the kinds of fundamental change that transformation implies, one has to examine the underlying thinking behind processes of urbanism. The talk proposes three radical shifts in this thinking, which emerge out of dialectical processes of practice, research and theory. These shifts are illuminated by critical analyses of case studies of transformative urbanism in Barcelona, Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The talk demonstrates how we can transform cities by transforming the theories and practices of urbanism itself.
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