Live Blogging

Bloggers and journalists attended the entire symposium to provide live coverage of plenaries, breakout discussions, and the exhibition. Next American City magazine hosted the coverage on their site, www.americancity.org/afteroil. Even if you were able to join us in person for this historic event, be sure to read the bloggers’ posts and see what happened in every session. Our team of writers included:

Lloyd Alter, Treehugger
Ryan Avent, Grist
Nate Berg, Planetizen
Andrew Blum, Wired
Randy Crane, Urban Planning Research
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Metropolis Magazine
Diana Lind, Next American City

Affiliations listed for identification purposes.

Podcasts

Video podcasts of the plenary sessions and audio podcasts of the break out sessions can be found on the Re–Imagining Cities iTunes page.
Note: you need iTunes to access the symposium podcasts. If you do not have iTunes, you can download it from Apple.

Press Coverage

In addition to the live blog, several other media outlets covered the event:

Anthony Flint from citiwire.net wrote "A President for Cities, But Where’s the Money?"

Nate Berg from Plantizen reported "To Re-Imagine Cities, Re–Imagine Urban Design."

Randy Crane from UCLA, consolidated his blogs on http://planning-research.com/.

Alex Steffen’s team at Worldchanging.com talked about their favorite blog posts at http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009009.html.

Tom Walsh from planphilly.com wrote about the symposium and exhibition at http://www.planphilly.com/node/4218#.

Witold Rybczyski from slate.com reported "Can Cities Save the Planet?"

Frederick Steiner, Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas, reports that the American Society of Landscape Architects will have a piece on the conference in their journal in the spring.

PennDesign’s Gary Hack, David Leatherbarrow, and Eugenie Birch with write a report on the symposium and the manifesto for the Journal of Urban Design.

Experts from the plenary speech by Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation can be found at http://www.rockfound.org/about_us/speeches/110708age_of_oil.shtml.