Lec 1 MIT 11.949 11.949 City Visions Past and Future
okay it's my great pleasure to welcome all of you to the inaugural lecture of our cities against nationalism speaker series launched in conjunction with the Jerusalem 2050 vision of the city as a place of peace project jointly sponsored by the Department of Urban Studies and planning and the Center for International Studies at MIT this speaker series is also offered in tandem with a course titled city visions past and present co-taught by larry veil and me this semester and if I could be without being too disruptive I'd like to make a quick announcement that the readings for Wednesday are available in a box here in TDD as a stopgap measure and that will tide us over until all the course readings are on stellar I think I speak for most of us here when I say we're very excited to have as our first speaker professor Gerald fru gov the Harvard Law School but before I announce him more deliberately and carefully I would like to take a few minutes to introduce you t...