Événement

Seattle Design Festival: Designing Cities / Seeding Cities / Rearing Cities

There is much conversation lately about how cities are evolving, and a lot of that conversation in the design world is deterministic in nature: "What should the end product look like?"

However, making cities is more like making people than like making cars. Cities are a product of genetic and environmental factors, and they change over time. Successful cities don't have an "end product." And successful cities are democratic, so by definition no one person designs the whole thing.

If the cities we end up with are actually a product of genetic and environmental factors (just like growing children), then perhaps our design focus should be less on the end product and more on thinking about cities as a design system.

This talk will explore the impact of zoning, financial structures, energy prices, entrepreneurialism, architects and artisanship on the emergent design of our cities.

What are the levers for change and how can individual people make a meaningful difference?

About the Speaker:
A-P Hurd is a Developer and Affiliate Faculty member of the Runstad Center in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. She recently published The Carbon Efficient City with the University of Washington Press.

Street parking only. Buses: #8 is the only east west connection. North south options include #s 26 & 28 on Dexter, #17 on Westlake/9th, #70 on Fairview, and #s 358 and 5 at Denny Park.