Civic Moxie / MIT
Principal of Civic Moxie, a consulting and urban design firm, and lecturer in urban design and planning at MIT
PROFILE
Susan Silberberg
Guest
FROM Susan Silberberg
Design and Architecture
Will Fear of Random Attack Affect the Design of Public Space? Random shootings in public places are causing Americans to grow increasingly anxious about dropping their kids off at school, going to the movies and other normal daily activities. What does this mean -- if anything -- for our public spaces? Do architecture, planning and technology have a role to play in accommodating these fears? We asked three people expert in urban planning and got the following answers.
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Claudio Magris: Blameless In Claudio Magris' Blameless, a museum of the implements of war and destruction is created to inspire peace. But this conversation is not just about war and peace.
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Hua Hsu: A Floating Chinaman Author Hua Hsu stops by to discuss his book A Floating Chinaman, recounting the life of 1930's actor/writer H.T. Tsiang and his struggles entering the American literary world.
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George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."