Towards the Common Good: Approaching Urban Challenges
Event Synopsis
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Cities are increasingly challenged by the polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, income inequality, territorial expansionism, populist activism, misinformation, cyber insecurity etc. Individualism will only exacerbate these issues. Drawing from evolutionary theory, multilevel selection-based co-operation is the only answer. And to achieve it, cities will need to focus on their commons and the common good. This lecture will explore pathways to achieve this.
How will Planners benefit from attending? Jonathan F.P. Rose, Author of the book The Well Tempered City, founder of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC and Winner of the 2021 ULI Prize forVision aries in Urban Development, is a unique speaker who works in the private real estate industry, as a developer of affordable housing in the United States of America, as well as has a very philospohical approach towards community development and how urban spaces should develop incorporating learnings from the past, but adapting to future needs. Planners will get to hear first-hand, a very unique approach on how to work and plan around the challenges which we will face now, and in our future, as contributors and shapers of the build environment – by focusing on the common good |