The Humane Metropolis
RESCHEDULED for Friday May 9th
Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation's sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world's population for the first time is now classified as "urban."As metropolitan regions become the dominant living environment for humans, there is growing concern about how to make such places more habitable, more healthy and safe, more ecological, and more equitable - in short, more "humane".The talk will draw on themes from the 2006 book edited by Dr. Platt: The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century City( University of Massachusetts Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy). Dr. Platt's work is in part inspired by and a tribute to the work of Distinguished Professor William "Holly" Whyte, a prominent Urban Sociologist and former faculty member of Hunter College . Whyte's famous observations and film analyses of corporate plazas, urban streets, parks and other open spaces in New York City made him achampion defender of the value of small public spaces.
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Sustainability Research Poster Contest
The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC) presents the 2008 Governors Island Sustainable CUNY/Sustainable NYC Research Poster Contest. This summer marks our 3rd Science Exhibition and Lecture Series on Governors Island. Though we have showcased CUNY research in the past, this year we are making a particular effort to applaud and publicize the important research that CUNY students are doing. To that end, we are sponsoring our first student research poster contest for the science exhibition!
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2008 Art for Sustainability Contest
The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC) is proud to present our inaugural Governors Island Art for Sustainability Contest. Powerful social movements have traditionally been reflected in parallel movements of artistic expression, movements that reveal the underlying tensions inherent in social transformation. The Art for Sustainability Contest challenges student artists to bring forward their interpretations of urban sustainability in its many forms.
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