Friday, April 11, 2014 Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall Mobilities in Cities: From Visible to Invisible Diana Barco, Assaf Biderman, Adam Greenfield, Walter Hook, Hiroo Ichikawa, Greg Lindsay, Eric J. Miller, Xuefei Ren, Claire Roberge, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Doris Tarchópulos, and John Urry 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. Schedule 10:00am Urbanizing Technology: The Audi Urban Future Initiative Saskia Sassen Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University 10:30am-12:00pm Today's Mobility Spaces and Beyond How Motion Came to Dominate Urban Space Richard Sennett University Professor of Humanities, New York University and Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science Urban Form, Transport Networks and Travel Demand: The Accessibility Nexus Eric J. Miller Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Director, University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute, University of Toronto Moving beyond the 'Car' John Urry Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University and author of Societies beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures (Zed 2013) and Offshoring (Polity 2014) 12:00pm-12:15pm: Break 12:15pm-1:15pm Transmobilities Toward Transmobility Adam Greenfield Founder and managing director, Urbanscale and Senior Urban Fellow, LSE Cities The Future of Urban Mobility in China Xuefei Ren Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University 1:15pm-2:15pm: Lunch Break 2:15pm-4:00pm Measuring, Making, Subverting Urban Futures What does the Global Power City Index 2013 tell us about Mobility in New York, Tokyo and two other cities? Hiroo Ichikawa Dean, Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University and Executive Director, Mori Memorial Foundation, Japan Moving Bits Assaf Biderman Associate Director, SENSEable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bogotá: Urban Space for a New Mobility Diana Barco Co-curator, Bogotá Urban Interactions and Future Mobility, Audi Urban Future Initiative Doris Tarchópulos Associate Professor and Director of the MA in Urban and Regional Planning, Architecture School, Javeriana University and Co-curator and Co-director, Bogotá Urban Interactions and Future Mobility, Audi Urban Future Initiative 4:00pm-4:15pm: Break 4:15pm-5:45pm Programming Mobility Reprogramming Mobility Greg Lindsay Visiting Scholar, NYU Rudin Modes of Mobility: Restricted, Imposed, Ignored, Opened or Hacked Claire Roberge Researcher, Urbanizing Technology: The Mobility Complex Comparative Political Economy of Sustainable Transport Walter Hook Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy 5:45pm Closing Remarks: What is next in this research project? Saskia Sassen Organized by Saskia Sassen for the Committee on Global Thought Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation This conference is supported by Audi and part of the Audi Urban Future Initiative http://events.gsapp.org/event/mobilities-in-cities-from-visible-to-invisible