Which 8850 Form Urban 2016-2023

So welcome back I'm Neil Brenner I teach urban theory at this fine institution it's wonderful to be here with everyone it's really a privilege to chair this panel with two really cutting-edge thinkers about the contemporary urban condition we have a slightly smaller group at this stage of the day but just so everyone knows some of the faculty have to teach and have other obligations but well hopefully I've been told they will be returning so we can expect the the size of the audience to fluctuate during the day but we're delighted to have all of you with us so and I also just want to join my colleagues in thanking the Dida's team boya young and Majda for their incredible dedication and hard work I started conversations with them many many months ago about planning this and you all have really rocked it in terms of not just the organizational coherence but the intellectual vision behind the conference it's really a wonderful opportunity for all of us at the school to reflect upon some fundamental issues that really underpin and animate the work that so many of us are doing both in our research and in our practice so hats off to the Dida's team and also I just want to have a look at the list of I mean they went through it earlier but have a look if you haven't already on the program of the list of all the different units at the GSD that have contributed to supporting this so the effort to kind of construct the budget in order to make it possible to bring everyone here and to support this day was also a very non-trivial thing and you know we're all grateful to them for making that effort and...