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Salon | Power and The Emergent City

by Utopia

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Thu, October 18, 2018

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

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Utopia

643 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

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By the end of the century, our megacities will be Lagos with 88 million people, Dhaka with 76 million, and Mumbai with 67 million. People are flooding into cities across Asia and Africa. The world is restructuring itself.

Who controls the future of our cities? How is power related to trust? Who do we trust to achieve change in cities? How do we trust ourselves? If we don’t trust our institutions, who do we trust? Can cities serve as sandboxes of learning and innovation? Do we need to leave public decision making in the hands of elected representatives? What is liquid democracy?

70 million new urban residents are added to cities each year and yet urbanization in Africa so far occurs frequently without industrialization. How can private actors help provide public goods? Can we start new cities while improving existing ones?

CONTRIBUTORS

Pia Mancini is the Cofounder at Open Collective and Cofounder and Chair at Democracy Earth, a YCombinator backed collaborative decision-making platform (DemocracyOS). She is a political scientist by training, peer and cofounder of Partido de la Red (The Net Party), World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and Former Chief of Advisors Deputy Secretary of Political Affairs for the City of Buenos Aires.

Mwiya Musokotwane is the Cofounder of Nkwashi City Development. He's also a Managing Partner and Cofounder at Frontier Capital Partners, an Africa focused investor in real assets, including new cities along with the technology, infrastructure and real estate that are required to make them sustainable and liveable. They intend to rollout several new city developments across Africa and Asia.

Mark Lutter is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Governance Research, a think tank dedicated to researching charter cities, special economic zones, and other forms of political decentralization. During graduate school, he consulted on several new city projects and special economic zones. He has a PhD in economics from George Mason University where his research focused on charter cities.

Jonathan Hursh (Moderator) is the Founder and Executive Producer of Utopia. He's intensely curious about the future of slums and their cities. Utopia is creating a network of urban innovation labs across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

HOSTS

Co-hosted by
Utopia | Open Collective | Democracy Earth | Center for Innovative Governance Research

SALON SERIES

This event is part of an informal salon series hosted by Utopia on the future of emergent cities. The salons aim to create a living room for those who care about the future of cities to provoke and explore together.

Illustration by Daniel Spacek.