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Urbanizing Technology

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Partner:: Compass Summit
Location:: Terranea Resort
Palos Verde, CA
Event Date:: 10.24.11
Speaker:: Saskia Sassen
Tags:: urbanization

Summary: SETTING THE CONTEXT: WHAT'S POSSIBLE, WHAT MATTERS, WHAT'S AHEAD

Urbanizing Technology

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Compass Summit, a forum for true interaction and exchange, examines some of today's most pressing problems through the lens of global citizenship, recognizing that human ingenuity is an unlimited resource. Guided by NPR's Ira Flatow, an intimate group of some of the of the world's best thinkers and doers convened along the rugged Palos Verdes coastline on Oct 23-26, 2011 at Terranea Resort to engage in meaningful conversation, ask questions, and challenge ideas -- we invite you to join in the conversation.

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Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.

Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007). She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (Under contract with Harvard University Press). Forthcoming is the 4th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). Recent edited books are Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (Routledge 2007), and Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. For UNESCO she organized a five-year project on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers).

Her books are translated into twenty-one languages. She has received several honors and awards, most recently a doctor honoris causa from each Delft University (Netherlands), DePaul University (USA), and Universite de Poitiers (France). She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and chaired the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, Newsweek International, among others, and contributes regularly to www.OpenDemocracy.net and www.HuffingtonPost.com.

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16 min 53 sec

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01.: Introduction

00 min 16 sec

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02.: Difficulty of Urbanizing Technology

01 min 17 sec

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03.: Bridging the Logic of Engineers and Users

02 min 51 sec

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04.: Scaling Up in Complex Cities

01 min 56 sec

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05.: The Car: Complex Assemblage

01 min 10 sec

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06.: The City: Knowledge Partner

01 min 23 sec

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07.: Urban Planning and Keeping Cities Relevant

02 min 33 sec

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08.: Audience Questions

00 min 14 sec

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09.: Question: Technology Urban in Origin?

04 min 55 sec

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10.: Conclusion

00 min 19 sec

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Saskia Sassen on the Dangers of Excessive Urbanization

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Saskia Sassen, sociology professor at Columbia University, discusses the risk of creating state-of-the-art buildings when technologies become obsolete. "Think Istanbul, think Rome. If they had been closed systems ... they would be dead. Instead, they have been incorporated into extraordinary, long histories," says Sassen.
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