PLANNING UNDERWAY FOR “TRANSFORMING THE METROPOLIS: CREATING SUSTAINABLE AND HUMANE CITIES”

The De Lange Conference committee is inviting many of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners of innovative urban solutions to engage in a dialogue on concepts of sustainable and humane cities. This conference, to be held March 2-4 at Rice University, will pose the following questions:What does our urban future promise? How can urbanization provide answers to the ecological, social, and economic issues of the 21st century?

The conference is organized and hosted by the Rice University Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life; Center for the Study of Environment and Society; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; School of Architecture and the Rice Design Alliance; Department of Sociology; and the University of Houston College of Architecture. For information or to make suggestions, see the conference website.