Lecture Series: 5! – Five Crucial Decades of City Building

An extraordinary lecture series from the new Urban Design Forum at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

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The Vancouver Region is simultaneously is simultaneously at the leading edge of globalized city development and being overwhelmed by it. Our forum will look at both the larger world and our back yard, at both the big and the small, at both today and fifty years from today – all to help us better understand. Understanding this radically new city is the first step in making it better.
“It is a remarkable thing. We are witnessing the fastest change to human habitat ever seen. All over the world, countrysides are emptying while cities burst. Remarkably, as cities fill the average number of birth per woman shrinks. Thus, within the next five decades the average size of the world’s cities will double. Then they will likely stop growing, potentially forever.”  Patrick Condon, 5! Five Crucial Decades of City Building.

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First up for the launch:

Urban Design Forum: Doug Saunders