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Conferences
and Symposia
The New Century Cities Initiative is a program
of the MIT Center for Real
Estate, the MIT City Design and Development Group, and the MIT Media
Laboratory, with the participation of the Cambridge University – MIT
Institute.
This initiative engages the phenomena of very large-scale urban projects
deliberately located at the intersection of technology, urban design, and
real estate development. These projects, found in such diverse places as New York, Cambridge, Helsinki, Seoul, and Zaragosa, Spain, aim to create
extraordinary value across multiple dimensions: enhancing physical
livability, building social capital, and attracting companies, new ideas,
and investment to their cities and nations.
A Symposium titled New Century Cities: Real Estate Value in a
Digital World, was held January 18-20, 2005 at MIT for a
select group of global leaders in these types of “new century cities”
development projects. Participants included representatives from the
three main constituencies involved with projects in the Americas, Europe, and Asia: the
sponsoring cities or governments, the real estate developers, and the
IT/media companies.
Smart
Growth: Form and Consequences, organized by Professor Terry Szold
and co-sponsored with the Lincoln Land Institute, explored the Smart
Growth movement and its related interventions, with speakers discussing
emerging design standards, land use regulation and property rights,
environmental ethics, social justice, and the role of technology in “place-centered”
planning.
On
several occasions, CDD has sponsored the Mayor’s Institute on
City Design, in cooperation with the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. The Institute involves mayors and design professionals in
three days of intensive discussions with the goal of fostering a better
understanding of the city design and helping mayors to take
responsibility for the form of their communities.
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