Just as cities are becoming the world’s preeminent economic, technological, and even diplomatic actors, they face unprecedented risks from financial volatility, climate change, political violence, and the spread of pandemics. The concentration of demographics, wealth and talent could either drive a renaissance of innovation and well-being or a cataclysmic chain reaction that threatens the world’s major population centers. Which cities will have the luck, foresight, and resilience to cope with 21st century risks such as rising sea levels, terrorism, subsidence, financial crises, and economic inequality?

Join New America NYC and a group of leading thinkers in urbanization and innovation in conversation about the challenges facing the 21st century metropolis and which cities are best equipped to address them.

Featuring…

DANIEL BROOK

Author, A History of Future Cities
Journalist

GREG LINDSAY

Author, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next
Contributing Writer, Fast Company

BENJAMIN BARBER

Author, Jihad vs. McWorld
Political Theorist

SASKIA SASSEN

Professor and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Author, Expulsions: When Complexity Produces Elementary Brutalities(Harvard University Press, 2014)

PARAG KHANNA

Author, Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization 
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation

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