The Ideal City - Master Plans and Dystopian Realities
The emerging coherence of smart and democratic cities
A Panel Discussion
April 9th, 2018
New York University, 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York
Event: With the ideal plans and dystopian realities of today's metropolis; looking through the lens of justice and ethics, identity and culture, space and boundaries, technology and data, governance and politics, health and education, economic influences and individual agency, this event covered thinking on the following:
In our plans for an Ideal City, how is justice, human virtue and enlightened governance manifested? How do we integrate and plan for social and environmental resilience in cities? What is the role of technology and data in adaptive strategies? How does the ideal city define and express our social contract? How do we reconcile this social contract with marginalized or disadvantaged communities? How do our systems of governance limit or expand our agency? How does collaborative consumption and the sharing economy serve the Ideal City? What are our best plans for the Ideal City? How are the cities of the future planning for the Ideal?
