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Vishaan Chakrabarti, one of today’s most inspired architects and urban advocates, has written a new manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges. In The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy, Chakrabarti describes a world facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change and population growth to political division and technological dislocation, to declining mental health and fraying cultural fabric. With most of the planet’s population now living in urban environments, cities are the spaces where we have the greatest potential to confront and address these problems. In this visionary book, Chakrabarti argues for an “architecture of urbanity,” showing how the design of our communities can create a more equitable, sustainable, and joyous future for us all.

Chakrabarti is the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), a design studio based in New York City dedicated to building ecological, equitable, and joyous communities. He will be in conversation with Reed Kroloff, Dean and the Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He co-founded jones|kroloff, a practice that develops design strategy and guides architect selection processes.