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Via the Boston Society of Architects website, the second in a series of syposia on cities and climates change, entitled Cities and Systems: Strategies for the Future, will be held at MIT on June 9.

The Boston Society of Architects and MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning are initiating two open symposia, gathering leading urbanists from the United States and overseas to frame the issues and opportunities facing the modern city in a period of global climate change and resource depletion. The goal is to establish a design and policy agenda for Boston and the New England region that benefits from best practices elsewhere and sets new standards for ensuring the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the city in a global economy.

Speakers include architects, engineers, urban and regional planners, political leaders and specialists in urban policy, public health, new technologies and transportation. The expected audience reflects an equally wide range of interests whose common point of enquiry is the future design and development of the ‘green city’.–Boston Society of Architects