November 6, 2014

Urban Design Forum: Doug Saunders

Is this the best lecture of the year on urbanism and global issues?  Michael Alexander thinks so, and you may too:
 

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Doug Saunders is the International Correspondent for the Globe and Mail and author of Arrival City – and the opening speaker.  You can count on his weekly column devoted to intellectual ideas and social developments to be insightful and, often, provoking in an unexpected way -just like this lecture.

Saunders’ keynote speech at Surrey City Hall – the launch for the Urban Design Forum hosted by UBC’s new Masters in Urban Design program at UBC – had one astute and often personal observation after the other, from the profiles of immigrants in their home countries to the towers of Toronto – one of our ‘Arrival Cities.’  And he explains why these places in their one-dimensional suburban settings can block the immigrants’ aspirations to reach the middle class because  of their very ‘middle-class design’ at the time they were built.

More Urban Design Forum talks as they’re posted here.

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