CDD Forum Each semester the City Design and Development Forum examines a pivotal issue facing the future of cities through a pubic guest lecture series and a special subject offered to the school. Organized by students and faculty, the Forum has brought important designers, historians, artists, public leaders, and scholars from across the world into the CDD community. The Fall 2004 Forum, Cutting Edge Issues in Urbanism, explores an eclectic range of forward-looking topics including protection of public access to open spaces, how cities recover from disasters, the use of new mobile cell phone data in analyzing urban spaces, regulating “monster homes,” and planning issues facing the MIT campus. Recent Forums have included: Event Places (Fall 2003) explored ephemera and temporary urbanism, focusing on their place in urban design. Regulating Place (Fall 2002) examined the role of standards in shaping the future of urban America. The Resilient City (Spring 2002) was conceived in response to the terrorist attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Speakers critically examined how cities across the globe have endured traumatic episodes, and prevailed to establish new order out of chaos and devastation. Urban Narratives: Making the City Speak (Spring 2001) focused on the emerging role of information technology in shaping public places. Metropolitanism in Practice (Fall 2000) reflected on new metropolitan initiatives in the US from growth management in Portland, Oregon to affordable housing in suburban Maryland. Housing the City (Spring 2000) examined how metropolitan development patterns shape housing options in the US and the developing world. The Future City-Region in Europe (Fall 1999) explored the re-invention of older European industrial cities, including Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Glasgow, Lille, and the Ruhr Valley. Crisis Cities (Spring 1999) looked at strategies to revitalize distressed American cities, such as Philadelphia and Washington D.C., once thought destined to irreversible decline. Imaging the City (Fall 1998), examined the growing effects of media on the form and function of cities, and the growing importance of so called “narrative places”, building on the work of Kevin Lynch. The forum resulted in a book recently published by the Center for Urban Policy Research.