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16:48
Bill Ford
A future beyond traffic gridlock
5:41
Robert Hammond
Building a park in the sky
9:13
Paul Romer
The world's first charter city?
9:26
Janet Echelman
Taking imagination seriously
15:46
Carlo Ratti
Architecture that senses and responds
11:47
Dale Dougherty
We are makers
10:07
Kate Orff
Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!
10:53
Sheikha Al Mayassa
Globalizing the local, localizing the global
17:57
Dan Phillips
Creative houses from reclaimed stuff
17:59
Majora Carter
3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
18:10
Johan Rockström
Let the environment guide our development
8:49
Arthur Potts Dawson
A vision for sustainable restaurants
16:34
Rachel Botsman
The case for collaborative consumption
18:58
Charles Leadbeater
Education innovation in the slums
16:47
Esther Duflo
Social experiments to fight poverty
7:45
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Augmented-reality maps
4:26
Gary Lauder
Take Turns
19:23
Ellen Dunham-Jones
Retrofitting suburbia
2:54
Lalitesh Katragadda
Making maps to fight disaster, build economies
7:43
Vilayanur Ramachandran
The neurons that shaped civilization
9:25
Bill Davenhall
Your health depends on where you live
16:40
Rob Hopkins
Transition to a world without oil
18:14
Bjarke Ingels
3 warp-speed architecture tales
23:04
Sophie Hunger
Songs of secrets and city lights
15:40
Carolyn Steel
How food shapes our cities
18:29
Paul Romer
Why the world needs charter cities
16:09
Eric Sanderson
New York -- before the City
5:46
Julian Treasure
The 4 ways sound affects us
3:05
Cameron Sinclair
The refugees of boom-and-bust
12:28
Thelma Golden
How art gives shape to cultural change
9:16
Nate Silver
Does racism affect how you vote?
14:33
Alex Tabarrok
How ideas trump crises
18:36
Daniel Libeskind
17 words of architectural inspiration
9:36
Olafur Eliasson
Playing with space and light
4:04
Kamal Meattle
How to grow fresh air
14:30
Miru Kim
My underground art explorations
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