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The Future and our

Cities...as if they
REALLY matter
Extraordinary challenges of
the 21st century
Climate Change
Urban vs Rural
Scientific/Technological breakthroughs
Population Growth/Decline
Economic and Political upheaval
Social and Cultural Equity
unprecedented change
The Baby and the Bathwater
(no matter how dirty it is)
metropolitan governance
regional growth/urban countermagnets
Humane settlements
responsive/efficient transportation
What we might want to
consider

City-Countryside-Continuum
post-devolution
perceptual/comprehensional shifts
real-time/short-cycle/non-deterministic
scale/S-M-L-XL
short lifespans/planned obsolescence
reevaluating culture
What we need to ask
ourselves
Just how big is big?
Just how free is free?
How safe is safe?
What do we actually want?
What are we willing to give up to get it?
Are we willing to change (mea
culpas/maxima culpas)?
What's wrong with pretty?
What's wrong with ugly?
“thank u”

DAN SILVESTRE
Dean/UPCA
UP Academic Congress
3 February 2010
dasaauf@gmail.com

jose danilo silvestre on FB / dasaauf.multiply.com “reverse entropy”

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