Shows / Future of the American City
Future of the American City
An initiative of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Episodes
Future of the American CityThe Politics of Density
Dana Cuff is an author and educator whose research focuses on affordable housing and urban density. As director of cityLAB at UCLA, she has spearheaded efforts…
Future of the American CityCivic Memory and the Urban Imaginary
Christopher Hawthorne is the first Chief Design Officer of the City of Los Angeles. Appointed in 2018, he has introduced new measures for shade and street…
Future of the American CityThe Idiosyncratic and the Irregular
Thom Mayne is an architect and educator whose practice, Morphosis, engages in cross-disciplinary research and design. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss…
Future of the American CityRedesigning the Dream
Eric Höweler is an architect and educator whose work deals with building technology and the public realm. He recently led a course in Miami on new strategies…
Future of the American CityUrban Typologies
Sean Canty is an architect and educator whose work focuses on building type and geometry. Among other things, he has recently engaged in teaching a course on…
Future of the American CityElevating Landscapes
Laurinda Spear and Margarita Blanco are architects and landscape architects whose work at ArquitectonicaGEO focuses on creating ecologically performative…
Future of the American CityResponsive Technologies and the Public Realm
Rodolphe el-Khoury is an architect, historian, and educator whose recent work deals with smart cities and embedded technology. RAD-UM, his lab at the…
Future of the American CityPlanning for Adaptation
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a pioneering urban planner, architect, and educator. She has been instrumental in developing the City of Miami’s form-based zoning…
Future of the American CityCurating Neighborhoods
Craig Robins is a Miami real estate developer whose projects focus on arts, culture, and historic preservation. Most recently, he has repositioned the city’s…
Future of the American CityImagining Retreat
Rosetta S. Elkin is a landscape architect who uses design as a means to address risk, injustice, and instability brought on by climate change. Elkin’s recent…
Future of the American CityRace and Place
Lily Song is an urban planner whose work aims to center the experiences of marginalized groups in the policy and development process. Her research introduces…
Future of the American CityWork-Life
Chris Reed is a landscape architect specializing in dynamic ecologies and generative processes. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his idea of “Work-Life,”…
Future of the American CityThe Just City
Toni L. Griffin is an urban planner who employs a value-based approach to urbanism, examining the ways design and planning figure into to questions of equality…
Future of the American CityClimate Gentrification
Jesse M. Keenan has spent his career looking at the relationship between urban development and climate adaptation. His concept of “Climate Gentrification,”…
Future of the American CityFuture of the American City
Mohsen Mostafavi is an architect and urbanist whose work has long focused on cities and modes of urbanization. The “Future of the American City” initiative…