BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:597@live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230427T193000 DTSTAMP:20240522T194756Z URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/the-mumford-lecture-p ressing-change-in-the-increasing-inflexible-city-featuring-emily-badger/ SUMMARY:Lewis Mumford Lecture: "Pressing Change in the Increasing Inflexibl e City\," Featuring Emily Badger DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 27\, 2023\, at 6 pm for our prestigious Lewis Mumford Lecture. This year we have the honor to welcome The New York Times staff writer Emily Badger\, who will be presenting her lecture "Pressing Change in the Increasing Inflexible City."\nAll lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium with a remote option available.\n \nIf you are interested in attending via Zoom\, please register here.\n\nS ee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus for current requirements for in -person visitors.\n\n \;\n\nEmily Badger is a staff writer with The Ne w York Times\, covering cities and urban policy. She is particularly inter ested in housing\, transportation\, and inequality — and how they’re a ll connected. Prior to joining the Times in 2016\, she wrote for The Washi ngton Post and The Atlantic Cities (now CityLab). She grew up in Chicago\, a city that has shaped a lot of her thinking about these topics\, and tod ay she lives in and writes from Washington\, D.C.\n\n"Pressing Change in t he Increasing Inflexible City": As we emerge from the pandemic\, we need t o adapt so much of city life: We need offices to become homes and our home s to become workplaces. We need hotels to become SROs. We need sidewalks t o become restaurants\, and parking lanes to become bus corridors\, and roa ds dedicated to cars to become safe routes for cyclists and pedestrians. B ut in many ways\, cities have become increasingly inflexible to change\, t hrough the cumulative complexity of decades of building and zoning codes\, through a tangled mix of good intentions and NIMBY politics. Adapting the city as we need for the future — from the level of individual buildings to citywide policy — will require understanding and confronting that le gacy of inflexibility.\n\nSuggested Reading: Whatever Happened to the Star ter Home? and So You Want to Turn an Office Building Into a Home?\n\n  \;\nAbout the Lewis Mumford Lecture:\n\nEach spring\, the Spitzer School o f Architecture and its Urban Design Program present the Lewis Mumford Lect ure and seminar. Named for writer\, architecture critic\, and urbanist Lew is Mumford\, who attended City College\, the series invites the world’s most distinguished urbanists to speak freely and publicly about the future of cities and the social purposes of architecture. This series was initia ted by the late Michael Sorkin\, distinguished professor of architecture a nd director of the Urban Design Program at the Spitzer School\, and curate d by him for eleven years.\n\n \;\nPrevious Lewis Mumford Lecturers:\n 2004 Jane Jacobs\n2005 Mike Davis\n2006 Enrique Peñalosa\n2007 Amartya Se n\n2008 David Harvey\n2009 Paul Auster\n2011 Richard Sennett\n2012 Janette Sadik-Khan\n2013 Marshall Berman\n2014 Theaster Gates\n2015 Rebecca Solni t\n2022 Yasmeen Lari CATEGORIES:Archived Video,Events,Lectures,Mumford Lectures LOCATION:Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, 141 Convent Aven ue\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States GEO:40.8177595;-73.95047339999996 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=141 Convent Avenue\, New Yo rk\, NY\, 10031\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bernard and Ann e Spitzer School of Architecture:geo:40.8177595,-73.95047339999996 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR