2001 Vera List Center Fellow Margarita Gutman speaks with leading urban scholars William Morrish and Saskia Sassen about her new book Buenos Aires: The Power of Anticipation. Itinerant Images of a Metropolitan Future in the First Centennial. This is the first book that comprehensively examines the imagination of the urban future of Buenos Aires. The volume contains close to two hundred images selected from over seven thousand publications which circulated in Buenos Aires between 1900 and 1920. The diversity, creativity, and humor of the images express what the citizens of Buenos Aires expected from a promising urban future. Moderated by David Scobey.
Buenos Aires: El Poder de la Anticipacion. Imagenes Itinerantes del Futuro Metropolitano en el primer Centenario.
(Buenos Aires: The Power of Anticipation. Itinerant Images of a Metropolitan Future in the First Centennial).
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Infinito, 2011.
Presenter
Margarita Gutman, Associate Professor, Urban Studies and International Affairs, The New School for General Studies
Respondents
William Morrish, Dean, School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School for Design
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor, Sociology, and Co-Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
David Scobey, Executive Dean, The New School for General Studies and Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
The event is co-sponsored by The New School for General Studies, Bachelor Program.