The fifth annual conference on cities and modern urban realities will bring together scholars from architecture, civil engineering, sociology, and other disciplines, with practitioners whose work addresses the acute issues of urban life. In particular focus will be the subject of mobilities, including visible ones like cars, bikes, walking and crowds, as well as invisible ones like digital and mechanical networks. 

Diana Barco, Co-curator of the Audi Urban Future Initiative Bogot project on mobility and urban fabric 
Assaf Biderman, Associate Director, SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Adam Greenfield, Founder and Managing Director, Urbanscale and Senior Urban Fellow, LSE Cities 
Hiroo Ichikawa, Dean, Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University and Executive Director,

Mori Memorial Foundation, Japan 

Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute 

Eric J. Miller, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Director, Transportation Research Institute, University of Toronto 

Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University 
Claire Roberge, Researcher, Urbanizing Technology: The Mobility Complex 

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor Sociology and Co-chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University 

Richard Sennett, University Professor of Humanities, New York University and Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science 

Doris Tarchpulos, Co-curator and Co-director of the research project, "Bogot Urban Interactions and Future Mobility" 

John Urry, Author of "Societies beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures" (Zed 2013) and "Offshoring" (Polity 2014) 

No registration necessary. First come, first seated. 

Organized by Saskia Sassen for the Committee on Global Thought. This conference is part of a larger project on Urbanizing Technology supported by the Audi Urban Future Initiative.

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