CITP Seminar: An Equitable Technological Future for Cities
As cities begin a deep, but slow, technological transformation, these are some of the questions that emerge and that will require open debate, broad stakeholder engagement, and new legal and policy frameworks. This talk does not answer any of these questions, but it puts them in the context of accelerating urbanization and the broad challenges and opportunities cities will face in the coming decades, and it offers a plausible framework for engaging with the intellectual dilemmas they pose in terms of access to, benefits of, and the ultimate goal of deploying new technologies in cities.
Bio: Elie Bou-Zeid is professor of civil and environmental engineering. He was the director of the Metropolis Project for urban technology at Princeton University until 2022. He is also associated faculty with the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. An expert in geophysics and atmospheric sciences, his research is broadly focused on measurement and modelling of material and energy transfers in the lower atmosphere, with applications to urban environmental quality, building energy efficiency, wind energy production, and polar sea ice fluctuations. He is editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, and a co-author of the NSF-sponsored report on Urban Climate and Resiliency aimed at understanding the role of megacities on global climate, and developing strategies to equitable improve urban climate-resilience and and reduce urban atmospheric greenhouse emissions. Bou-Zeid holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in environmental engineering and water resources from the American University of Beirut, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
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This talk will be recorded and posted on the CITP YouTube channel and on the Princeton University Media Central website.
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