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Urbanization is more than the growth and physical expansion of cities. It is a process that transforms territories, changes existing reciprocities and establishes new relationships between different places. In the Shadow of the Megacity will address the wider impact of urbanization, both within and beyond the city, in an attempt to trace the present contours of the urban and imagine its future.

In the Spring, a group of scholars, officials, and practitioners gathered on Cape Cod to discuss the implications of urbanization in rural settlements, focusing on questions of land use, housing, infrastructure and ecology. We are now carrying the discussion to New York to continue the conversation and consider the agency that architecture and design may have in relation to the processes of urbanization.

Presenters:
Stan Allen, George Dutton '27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University
Alexander D'Hooghe, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT
Susannah Drake, Founding principal of Dlandstudio Architecture + Landscape Architecture
Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University
Dietmar Offenhuber, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Departments of Art + Design and Public Policy

A keynote conversation will follow with Kenneth Frampton and Stan Allen.

For more information and an overview of our Cape Code symposium please visit http://intheshadowofthemegacity.blogspot.com/

Symposium organizers: Tulay Atak and Teddy Kofman

Co-sponsored by the School of Architecture and The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design

Morning panelists include: Nadine Maleh, Institute for Public Architecture; AJ Pires, Alloy Development; Sara Valente, Stereotank and LOT-EK. 

Afternoon studio tours include: Adjaye Associates, Andrew Berman Architect, Ennead Architects, KPF, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Rockwell Group, Studio Gang, TEN Arquitectos, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners, WXY Architecture + Urban Design 

The end of the day reception will be held at Snøhetta. 

To register for this program or if you have any questions, please email Matt Ragazzo at ragazzo@archleague.org or call at (212) 753-1722 x13.