The Street: An Urban Ecology | Vikas Mehta | TEDxUCincinnati

Dr. Mehta see our cities differently, challenging our understanding the diverse role and impact of the world’s concrete rivers.
Vikas Mehta is interested in various dimensions of urbanity through the exploration of place as a social and ecological setting and as a sensorial art. His work focuses on the role of design and planning in creating a more responsive, equitable, stimulating and supportive environment. This work emphasizes the sense of place and place distinctiveness, design and visualization of urban places and activities, and cities and regions as just, equitable and sustainable living systems. Dr. Mehta has developed new measures of sociability that have advanced existing methods to study human behavior in public spaces.
Vikas Mehta is the Fruth/Gemini Chair, the Ohio Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design and Associate Professor of Urbanism, School of Planning, College of DAAP at the University of Cincinnati. He is currently completing a 4-volume anthology titled Public Space: Critical Concepts in Built Environment.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

This conversation gets more and more relevant everyday as urban areas continue to grow

[@saranbhatia8809]

Great talk!

[@taniaparadiso2343]

Nice concepts

[@abdulilaahyousuff7767]

for example in New York city, there are a hundres of miles of bike lanes that have been created in the last few years, and yet NY couldn't make it to the #20 bikeable cities so far ???

[@weetikissa]

There are still too many cars in NYC for people to be convinced that biking is for them. Look at any city that bikes a lot, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, etc. Almost no cars at all.

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

@@weetikissa yup. bike lanes need to be completely separated to be safe enough for your child to bike to school. on top of that, the best bike cities in the world make it so that bike routes are more efficient than automobile routes, thereby encouraging people to bike.

[@mokholoanemoloi6807]

Vikas is living the American dream. How are you going to say "our cities," and you have a full-blown Indian accent?