Join Archinect at the "CityLab: Urban Solutions to Global Challenges" conference, Sept. 29 & 30 in Los Angeles

2014-09-26T17:00:00-04:00

CityLab's more than 400 attendees will bring together the people who are creating the cities of the future—dozens of mayors from around the world, practitioners, planners, architects, artists, economists, urban scholars, and other civic leaders—to discuss emerging trends and share best practices for common challenges.

Archinect will be covering the second annual "CityLab: Urban Solutions to Global Challenges" conference, a summit for top figures in city governments, design, architecture, journalism and technology to address pressing urban issues. Hosted by The Atlantic in partnership with The Aspen Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies, the program will include presentations by:

Eric Garcetti, Mayor, Los Angeles
Brian Chesky, CEO and Founder, Airbnb
Henk Ovink, Senior Advisor to Secretary Shaun Donovan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Donald Shoup, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA
John Zimmer, Co-Founder and President, Lyft
Bill Peduto, Mayor, Pittsburgh
Kasim Reed, Mayor, Atlanta

We'll be live-tweeting the whole thing @Archinect, Monday September 29 and Tuesday September 30, #CityLab2014. You can also live-stream it here.

If you're in Los Angeles and looking to take part, CityLab is also hosting "CityLab: Making L.A....

UCLA's Patricia Greenfield Tracks Urban Psychology With Words

2013-08-13T18:21:00-04:00

As a society slowly urbanizes over time, its psychology and culture change, too... If American culture and psychology grew more individualistic as the country urbanized, wouldn't that transformation be clear in the words from American books (and the concepts that lie behind them)?

Urban and rural environments impact personal psychology differently, according to research published by UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield in Psychological Science. While observational evidence may draw a clear line between current city- and country-mindsets, Greenfield's source material draws on data from over 200 years of publishing in the United States. Using Google Books Ngram Viewer, Greenfield tracked English words that refer to certain trends or larger ideas, such as "obliged" vs. "choose", to see if urbanization accompanies a more individualistic mentality. It's given that a word's frequency of use will change over time, but seeing how that frequency correlates with urbanization is an exciting metric for the collective urban unconscious.

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Join Archinect at the "CityLab: Urban Solutions to Global Challenges" conference, Sept. 29 & 30 in Los Angeles

UCLA's Patricia Greenfield Tracks Urban Psychology With Words