About Meeting of the Minds

The Meeting of the Minds Conference -- jointly convened by Toyota, the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, LandDesign, and Urban Age Institute -- brought together two worlds around one common goal: designing more sustainable post-carbon cities while creating more sustainable vehicles. This invitation-only Conference provided a unique platform for leading transport technologists/engineers, focused on designing vehicles and infrastructure, to share their future visions with leading urban planners and designers, focused on the built environments which house more than half of humanity. Meeting of the Minds provided a platform for debate and discussion to leaders from private sector, public sector, NGOs and academia -- all working to create more sustainable cities and design a new approach to urban vehicles. Other partners include: LandDesign, 'Metropolis Magazine', American Planning Association, Embarq. 'Meeting of the Minds' focused on the new technologies, emerging urban designs, cleaner fuels which are remaking automobiles and reshaping cities. Approximately 200 participants were leaders drawn from the public sector (particularly big city mayors); the private sector (auto companies; urban design/planning and development companies); independent sector (academia, foundations, NGOs and media). They spent two full days re-imagining 'the big picture'; learning from cities successfully adopting neighborhood-based solutions; debating vehicle and innovating new surface systems; identifying the critical tools which we need in order to move forward.
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