The Massachusetts APA Chapter is hosting an event tomorrow night at MIT. Please join fellow policy and planning students and practitioners.

 

Planning the 21st Century City: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses

- A Talk by Anthony Flint

 

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

 

The Stata Center, Building 32

MIT

32 Vassar Street

Cambridge, MA 

 

The Sustainable Development Committee of the APA-MA Chapter and the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning present Anthony Flint, author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City.

The planning profession has embraced Jane Jacobs and her principles for well-functioning urban neighborhoods and metropolitan regions, and the importance of citizen participation in the planning process. Yet the legacy of Robert Moses includes the central role of infrastructure and a vision for urban redevelopment projects that are equally relevant today, in the shaping of the 21st  century city. In this talk, Anthony Flint, director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, will address the strengths of these contrasting aspirations for city-building. A question and answer session will follow. This event is free and open to the public.