Este viernes tendremos Café-Discusión de los textos del pack 2 "Las propuestas urbanas del siglo XX" (9.30hs). Para esta actividades hemos invitado al profesor Michael Cohen*, Ph.D de la Universidad de Chicago y Director del Programa de Relaciones Internacionales en la New School University, N.Y.
De 10.45hs a 11.30hs seguiremos con la enchinchada del TP2 COLECCIONES, TIEMPOS Y LUGARES. -¡Esperamos avances!- y a las 11.45hs Luis Tosoni dará una charla titulada "Manifiestos y Vanguardias. Centenario del Futurismo", que forma parte del Seminario De la idea a la acción.
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¡Le damos al bienvenida a Matías Torres, quién se incorpora al taller como alumno-pasante!
Ya se puede bajar desde el blog el pdf con las Fichas Bibliográficas 2009 (ver botón a la derecha)
* Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the International Affairs Program. He also works as Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires. Before coming to the New School in 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. From 1972 to 1999, he had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from 1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics. He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Preparing the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (ed. with A. Garland, B. Ruble, and J. Tulchin), The Human Face of the Urban Environment (ed. with I. Serageldin), and Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s. Other recent publications include articles in 25 Years of Urban Development (Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 1998), Cities Fit for People (Kirdar, ed., 1996), The Brookings Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Traditional Environments, International Social Science Review, Habitat International, and Finance and Development. He is currently completing a study of urban inequality in Buenos Aires. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, The Johns Hopkins University, and the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires
