When

Tuesday November 18, 2014 from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM EST
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Where

Rosenthal Pavilion, NYU Kimmel Center, 10th Floor 
60 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012  


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Contact

Marina Kosyachenko 
NYU Development Research Institute
dri@nyu.edu 
 

Cities and Development: Urban Determinants of Success

You are invited to join DRI at our 2014 Annual Conference on November 18, 2014 at NYU Kimmel Center. 

The success and failure of cities reveal powerful development forces which are hard to see on a national scale. Ideology, policy, risk, and the spread of people, goods and ideas operate in unique ways in urban environments. From Beirut to Lusaka to New York, city-level analyses bring new perspectives to development debates. 

 Breakfast and lunch will be served.

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Conference Agenda:

8:30am-9:00am
Registration and Coffee

9:00am-9:10am
Conference Introduction
David W. McLaughlin, Provost, NYU
  
9:10am-10:10am
“The Power of the Grid"
 Paul Romer, University Professor, NYU

10:10am-11:10am
“A Long History of a Short Block:
Four Centuries of Development Surprises on a Single Stretch of a New York City Street"
 William Easterly, Professor of Economics, NYU
Laura Freschi, Research Scholar, NYU Development Research Institute

11:10am-11:30pm
Coffee Break
 
11:30am-12:30pm
"Cities, Development, and the Demons of Density"
Edward Glaeser, Professor of Economics, Harvard University

12:30pm-1:30pm
Lunch

1:30pm-2:30pm
“The Effects of Top-Down Design versus Spontaneous Order on Housing Affordability: Examples from Southeast Asia"
Alain Bertaud, Senior Research Scholar, NYU Stern Urbanization Project

2:30pm-3:30pm 
“Small is Beautiful – but Also Less Fragile”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU School of Engineering
 

This event is co-sponsored by the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. Funding is generously provided by the John Templeton Foundation.

Photo credits: The William Bridges map of the 1811 NYC Commissioner's plan courtesy of The Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. Photo of Ho Chi Minh City by Aleksandr Zykov is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Photo of the SoHo Greene Street sign by Carlos Mejia Greene is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.