San Francisco Harper Lecture: The Kind of Problem a City Is Sun., November 04, 2018 | 2:00 PM — 4:00 PM Sir Francis Drake 450 Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94102 United States Featuring Luis M. Bettencourt, the Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Cities are powerful drivers of human development and economic growth. As such, they create open-ended complexities that may be examined from a variety of perspectives. In this talk, Luis M. Bettencourt, director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago, will develop the case for the interdisciplinary study of cities as a nexus for many classical fields in the sciences and the humanities, emphasizing new opportunities for the University to lead transformative research and practice that address global challenges of sustainability and livability in cities. Questions? Contact alumniassociation@uchicago.edu or 773.702.2150. Event Details 2:00 p.m. Registration and networking 2:30 p.m. Presentation and discussion 3:30 p.m. Reception $20/person $10/Maroon Loyalty Society member or recent graduate (College alumni of the past 10 years and graduate alumni of the past five years) Free for current academic year graduates and current students Two complimentary registrations for members of the Chicago, Harper, Odyssey, and Phoenix philanthropic societies RSVP now. Parking Information Parking is $12 for the first hour and $4 for each additional 30 minutes, plus tax. Recent News More news Alumni Profile: Eloísa Ávila-Uribe, MACRM’23 Fri., April 26, 2024 Ariel Kalil: Multigenerational households are key to better support for kids of single mothers Thu., April 25, 2024 America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population Wed., April 24, 2024