{"id":662079,"date":"2013-08-08T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=80818"},"modified":"2013-08-08T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T21:53:20","slug":"lineup-of-speakers-for-tedcity2-0-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/662079","title":{"rendered":"Lineup of speakers for TEDCity2.0, unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80821\" alt=\"TEDCity2.0-feature\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/tedcity2-0-feature.jpg?w=900\"   \/>Around the world, cities are growing at an exceptionally fast clip. As the oft-quoted statistic goes, by 2030, 6 out of every 10 people on the planet will live in a city. So how do we make sure our urban areas are filled with beauty, complexity and possibility rather than simply with overcrowding?<\/p>\n<p>TED is pleased to announce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/pages\/attend_tedcity2\" >TEDCity2.0<\/a>, a one-day conference focused on the future of cities. <b>Themed \u201cDream me. Build me. Make me real.,\u201d TEDCity2.0 will be held on Friday, September 20, at The<\/b> <b>TimesCenter in New York City from 9am-5pm EST<\/b>. The event will be hosted by Chris Anderson, Courtney Martin and John Cary.<\/p>\n<p>TEDCity2.0 will go far beyond the average urban policy conversation, bringing unexpected thinkers with bold ideas &#8212; from a junkyard anthropologist to an architect who went blind midway through his career to a photographer who took the iconic aerial image of New York after Hurricane Sandy. Below, the speakers who will appear at TEDCity2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Session 1: Redefining Citizen<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poverty professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ced.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/roy_ananya\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Ananya Roy<\/span><\/a>, exploring the ingenuity of the world&#8217;s most vulnerable<\/li>\n<li>Peace strategist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iftiinfoundation.com\/about-us-3\/people\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Mohamed Ali<\/span><\/a>\u00a0tackles terrorism with entrepreneurial verve<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneur\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ericliu.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Eric Liu<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is reinventing citizenship for the 21st century<\/li>\n<li>Harassment avenger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihollaback.org\/about\/who-we-are\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Emily May<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is reclaiming public safety for women and for all<\/li>\n<li>Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantaga.gov\/index.aspx?page=16\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Kasim Reed<\/span><\/a> is shaping the future of Atlanta, one of America&#8217;s most diverse cities<\/li>\n<li>Urban bard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbsonasphalt.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=11&amp;Itemid=3&amp;r=off\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Felice Belle<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is a poetic voice of the city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 2: Reinventing Urban Experience<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walkability advocate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffspeck.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Jeff Speck<\/span><\/a>, who fights against suburban sprawl and bad urban policy<\/li>\n<li>Aural artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikesweeney.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Jason Sweeney<\/span><\/a>, who is reinventing the urban experience through a crowd-sourced public art project<\/li>\n<li>Civic technologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/codeforamerica.org\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Catherine Bracy<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is scaling &#8220;Code for America&#8221; internationally<\/li>\n<li>Radical professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Dalton\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Dennis Dalton<\/span><\/a>, an Ivy Leaguer with a thing for street philosophers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 3: Reimagining the City<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visionary architect\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch4blind.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Chris Downey<\/span><\/a>, who lost his sight and gained new ways of seeing the world<\/li>\n<li>Commissioner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/about\/commbio.shtml\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Janette Sadik-Khan<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is putting pedestrians at the forefront of transportation policy in New York City<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/draper.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/RobinNagle.html\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Robin Nagle<\/span><\/a>, an anthropologist in residence at the NYC Department of Sanitation, talks trash<\/li>\n<li>Street performers John Pita and Avi Snow of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityoftheSun\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">City of the Sun<\/span><\/a>\u00a0are flamenco\/blues\/indie rockers<\/li>\n<li>Place maker\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ssa1.ccny.cuny.edu\/people\/griffin.html\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Toni Griffin<\/span><\/a>, an urban planner working to make cities more just<\/li>\n<li>Housing advocate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.hud.gov\/hudportal\/HUD?src=\/about\/principal_staff\/secretary_donovan\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Shaun Donovan<\/span><\/a>, the U.S. Secretary of Housing &amp; Urban Development<\/li>\n<li>Sustainability guru\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancehosey.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Lance Hosey<\/span><\/a>, who&#8217;s on a mission to make green design beautiful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Session 4: Redrawing Geographies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transportation evangelist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.enriquepenalosa.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Enrique Pe\u00f1alosa<\/span><\/a>\u00a0turned Bogota into an international model for pedestrian life<\/li>\n<li>Photographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwan.com\/iwan_index.php\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Iwan Baan<\/span><\/a>\u00a0captures life in informal communities, including the world&#8217;s most notorious vertical slum<\/li>\n<li>Impact designer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massdesigngroup.org\/who-we-are\/team.html\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Alan Ricks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0believes the global south has something to teach the global north about beauty<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso architect\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerearchitecture.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Di\u00e9b\u00e9do Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9<\/span><\/a>\u00a0creates elegance using local crafts and materials<\/li>\n<li>Writer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jvictoriasanders.com\/\" ><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Joshunda Sanders<\/span><\/a>, who&#8217;s remapping the mental urban landscape with memoir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/80818\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/80818\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=80818&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/1e-EmtCT9e4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the world, cities are growing at an exceptionally fast clip. As the oft-quoted statistic goes, by 2030, 6 out of every 10 people on the planet will live in a city. So how do we make sure our urban areas are filled with beauty, complexity and possibility rather than simply with overcrowding? TED is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}