Past Events

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72 results

Urban Conversations | The Foot, The Pen, The Naive Question (tentative title)
April 2, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)
In Person
How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and challenges of the city at close range, and reflect on how the walker creates...

Urban Conversations | A City Is Sometimes a Tree
March 9, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)
In Person
In his seminal 1965 article “A City Is Not a Tree,” design theorist Christopher Alexander argued that urban planners—working centrally and top-down—tend to design cities as efficient hierarchical tree-like structures, whereas successful traditional cities...

Book Talk: Bruno Carvalho in Conversation with Diane Davis at Harvard Book Store
January 27, 2026
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7:00PM EST
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Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
In Person
Harvard Book Store and Long Now Boston welcome Bruno Carvalho—Harvard University professor and author of Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro—for a discussion of his new book, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern...

Urban Conversations | Henry Grabar discusses Under Construction

Apr 28, 2025
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12:00PM EDT
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Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)
In Person
Lunch atop a Skyscraper - Charles Clyde Ebbets, 1932 Urban Conversations Speaker: Henry Grabar In conversation with Rachel Meltzer Why has it become so difficult to build housing in the American city, and what does this tell us about the country's larger...

Collaborations Afield: Work across Ecologies and Disciplines Conference
Mar. 27 - Mar 29, 2025
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12:00AM - 12:00AM EDT
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Mahindra Humanities Center, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street
In Person
Jessica Sarah Rinland, Black Pond, 2018 Collaborations Afield: Work across Ecologies and Disciplines Mahindra Humanities Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Over the past decade, ecological habitats have been increasingly understood as...