PLATFORM: Urban Agencies—Projections for the Contemporary City

FALL 2020

This issue is edited by Associate Professor Dean Almy and asks in what ways we are contributing to the debate on how cities should respond to the contemporary environment—where tensions between economic opportunity, climate change, affordability, and available resources are atomizing the urban environment—and how might cities remain, and offer themselves even further now, as stages for public debate and positive futures for the physical world. In 2020, while many of our streets appear temporarily vacated, people have demonstrated that they have not abandoned their sense of urbanity. This issue asks how and what is the role of urban design practice within this contemporary context, and how can the academy act to direct the conversation today.

EDITOR

Dean Almy

MANAGING EDITOR

Leora Visotzky

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Carly Choi
Heather Corcoran

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Hailey Algoe

CONTRIBUTORS

Dean Michelle Addington
Dean Almy
Simon Atkinson
Sinclair Black
Maggie Hansen
Martin Haettasch
Junfeng Jiao
Edna Ledesma
Josiah Lindquist
Juan Miro
Samantha Whitney Schwarze
Wilfried Wang
Jake Wegmann
Sarah Wu

FEATURED ALUMNI

Khaled Alawadi
Ashley Craig
Kevin Howard