[Re]Form: New Investigations in Urban Form, Panel 2
Panel 2: Reforming the Discourse
Panelists: Shlomo Angel, Colin McFarlane
Moderator: Neil Brenner
[Re]FORM: New Investigations in Urban Form aims to reposition the discourse of urban form within contemporary urban theory. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s seminal text Urban Form (1970), this conference aspires to provoke new investigations and debates on urban form and its relevance in contemporary urbanizations. Specifically, by acknowledging the fluctuating conditions of political, economic, and technological contexts and practices, this conference interrogates the meanings of “form” and its role in contemporary urbanization through the agency of the design disciplines, and gauges such discourses against the debates on urban theory situated within contemporary urban conditions and transitions.
Almost half a century has passed since the publication of Urban Form by Henri Lefebvre, the urban, as he avers, is — “a place of encounter, assembly, simultaneity” — which constitutes a logical form and embodies a kind of knowledge, has been vastly defined through geographical, political and economic substances and practices ever since. Particularly in the past three decades, emerging technologies have drastically challenged the idea of urban and its form ranging in scale from the planetary to the individual. The unprecedented urban complex generally prioritizes the practices over its agencies and thus obscures the logics of the urban upon which it operates. The process of contemporary urbanization produces radical phenomena and urban objects, yet prioritizing urban form as a key instrument for contemporary urbanization remains an elusive notion. Recovering the epistemological agency of urban form is a pressing matter.
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2013 QUT Grand Challenge Lecture - The World is Getting Hungrier - J Dale
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Almost certainly, there will be nine billion people on this earth by 2050 and they will be demanding more and better quality food. Ultimately, this will require very significantly higher yielding crops with considerably better nutritional value. And this needs to be achieved in a changing climate with less water and less arable land -- a truly Grand Challenge.
How should we respond: urgently! And with all the tools we have available. Presently, organic farming and genetic modification are at the extremes of agricultural practice. However, we should be utilising the benefits of both. In this lecture, James Dale will explore the technologies and techniques that could sustainably raise global food production to the required level. He will describe his work on bananas, one of the world's most important staples and a crop with much to gain from the use of technology.
Distinguished Professor James Dale is the Theme Leader for Sustainable Tropical and Subtropical Production in the Institute for Future Environments and the Director of the Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities at QUT. He has been involved in biotechnology research for more than 25 years. His research team has developed a range of biotechnology methods and products for expressing transgenes in plants, including a $15 million Grand Challenges in Global Health Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop biofortified bananas for East Africa.
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“Seeing for Action - Using Maps and Graphs to Protect the Public’s Health” Date: Feb. 5, 2016
This scientific symposium is one of several events that kicked off the opening of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit, hosted at the CDC David J. Sencer Museum from January 25 – June 17, 2016 ( The public expects to be protected from health threats at home and abroad. Public health leaders need the best information to make better, faster decisions to protect the public’s health. Advances in maps, graphs and other visualizations can greatly help the public understand health threats and can lead to quicker public health responses. This symposium brought together researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Thomson Reuters to explore how government, academia and industry can collaborate to improve visualization tools to better protect the public’s health.
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Robin Wagner
Di Cross
Michael Page
Martin Meltzer
James Tobias
Munmun de Choudhury
Polo Chau
Joshua Schnell, PhD
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Poker is a family of card games involving betting and individualistic play whereby the winner is determined by the ranks and combinations of their cards, some of which remain hidden until the end of the game. Poker games vary in the number of cards dealt, the number of shared or community cards and the number of cards that remain hidden. The betting procedures vary among different poker games in such ways as betting limits and splitting the pot between a high hand and a low hand.
In most modern poker games, the first round of betting begins with one of the players making some form of a forced bet (the ante). In standard poker, each player is betting that the hand he or she has will be the highest ranked. The action then proceeds clockwise around the table and each player in turn must either match the maximum previous bet or fold, losing the amount bet so far and all further interest in the hand. A player who matches a bet may also raise, or increase the bet. The betting round ends when all players have either matched the last bet or folded. If all but one player fold on any round, then the remaining player collects the pot and may choose to show or conceal their hand. If more than one player remains in contention after the final betting round, the hands are revealed and the player with the winning hand takes the pot. With the exception of initial forced bets, money is only placed into the pot voluntarily by a player who, at least in theory, rationally believes the bet has positive expected value. Thus, while the outcome of any particular hand significantly involves chance, the long-run expectations of the players are determined by their actions chosen on the basis of probability, psychology and game theory.
Poker has gained in popularity since the beginning of the twentieth century, and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of mostly male enthusiasts, to a widely popular spectator activity with international audiences and multi-million dollar tournament prizes.