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And George Wolf had taken over from another director and he wanted to change the theater, and he wanted to make it urban and loud and a place that was inclusive.
The urban system is a grid and every street on this city goes across the river on a pontoon bridge.
Incredibly resilient, because if there's an unseasonal downpour or if the river changes course, the urban system stays intact, the city adjusts itself to this terrain which can be volatile.
Can we create softer urban systems?
We need to change planning urban design cultures, to think of the temporal, the reversible, the disassembleable.
I've been a police officer in an urban city for nearly 25 years.
Around the same time, I met like-minded individuals who call themselves urban explorers, adventurers, spelunkers, guerrilla historians, etc.
I was welcomed into this loose, Internet-based network of people who regularly explore urban ruins such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, aqueducts, factories, hospitals, shipyards and so on.
"Naked City" is a nickname for New York, and "Spleen" embodies the melancholia and inertia that come from feeling alienated in an urban environment.
The tunnel was once built for the prosperity of the city, but is now a sanctuary for outcasts, who are completely forgotten in the average urban dweller's everyday life.
I've also looked out on urban places like this and thought about people who are disassociated from trees in their lives.
Greg Dobler, also an astrophysicist and my husband, created the first urban observatory in New York University in 2013, and I joined in 2015.
By studying city lights the same way, we can measure and predict how much energy the city needs and consumes and help build a resilient grid that will support the needs of growing urban environments.
I bring my astrophysics background to urban science, and I bring what I learn in urban science back to astrophysics.
The area in between is sort of an urban continuum, these things that we can't predict their evolution to the same degree.
With urban gardening and farming and community supported agriculture, reversing this process has already started.
Logging roads provide access to urban areas.
A city that in the 1950s was the world's industrial giant, with a population of 1.8 million people and 140 square miles of land and infrastructure, used to support this booming, Midwestern urban center.
And now today, just a half a century later, Detroit is the poster child for urban decay.
This is the story that Detroiters are changing, through urban agriculture and food entrepreneurship.
You know, I think, out of all the cities in the world, Detroit, Michigan, is best positioned to serve as the world's urban exemplar of food security and sustainable development.
You understand, urban agriculture in Detroit is all about community, because we grow together.
We're still struggling, and I'm not going to stand here on this stage and tell you that all of Detroit's problems and all of Detroit's challenges are going to be solved through urban agriculture.
I'm not going to do that, but I will tell you this: urban agriculture has Detroit thinking about its city now in a different way, a city that can be both urban and rural.
Chinese cities are building a lot, they're also, you know, not only competing for this space and height, they're also learning a lot from North American urban strategies [and] also repeat a lot from city to city.
But my second thought was, if I didn't do it, they would just put, you know, standard urban towers there, anyway.
Back to the city, in Beijing, we were asked to design these urban towers.
We tested this application in clinics, where the health coaches were medical assistants, and in a large urban church, where the health coaches were volunteers from the health ministry.
So it's really not even about urban versus rural.
And if we applied the same energy we currently do suppressing forms of life towards cultivating life, we'd turn the negative image of the urban jungle into one that literally embodies a thriving, living ecosystem.
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