Henry Hart Rice Annual Urban Policy Forum presents Vishaan Chakrabarti and the “Architecture of Urbanity”

NYU Wagner and the Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum presents one of the world's leading thinkers on cities, Vishaan Chakrabarti, on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 6:00 p.m.

This forum will be held at NYU's Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, 238 Thomason St., New York, N.Y, in the Grand Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Chakrabarti will discuss the ideas explored in his new book, "The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy" (Princeton University Press, 2024). Taking readers from the great cities of antiquity to the worldwide exurban sprawl of our postindustrial age, the book makes the case for an "architecture of urbanity," showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all.

This annual Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy lecture is sponsored by The Rice Family Foundation,

Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, author, and public thought leader. He is the founder of PAU | Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, a Manhattan-based architecture firm dedicated to building ecological, equitable and joyous communities. As a licensed practitioner across several states, Chakrabarti leads the studio's cultural, institutional and infrastructure work including Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery, Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Princeton's Hobson College, and New York's Pennsylvania Station. His past positions include working as a principal in other global architecture firms, teaching at Columbia University and serving as the William Wurster Dean at UC Berkeley's college of architecture. As then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg's director of planning for Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, Chakrabarti helped to reimagine the High Line, rebuild the World Trade Center, extend the #7 subway line, and revitalize the waterfront.

In addition to his role at PAU and serving on numerous non-profit boards, Chakrabarti teaches at Cornell University as the Thomas J. Baird Visiting Critic in Architecture, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Vital City, and other publications. He is the author of two books: A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America (Metropolis Books, 2013), and most recently, The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy (Princeton University Press, September 2024) in which he argues that designing connected physical communities that bridge our differences-as opposed to disconnected technologies that exacerbate them-is essential to addressing our greatest societal challenges from climate change to political division to our growing public health crises.

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