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The Physical Conditions for Human Flourishing in a Post-Sprawl World: A Metropolitan Case Study

Fri, Jan 19

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RRH 4.408

with Professor Philip Bess, distinguished professor of architecture at The University of Notre Dame.

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The Physical Conditions for Human Flourishing in a Post-Sprawl World: A Metropolitan Case Study
The Physical Conditions for Human Flourishing in a Post-Sprawl World: A Metropolitan Case Study

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Jan 19, 2024, 4:00 PM

RRH 4.408, 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78701, USA

About The Event

The physical forms of human settlements can neither cause nor determine individual and communal well-being, but forms of human settlement can either promote or obstruct the variety of external goods that promote human flourishing. Some settlement forms are better than others -- more durable, more economically resilient, more convenient, more beautiful -- in sum, better stewardship of creation's bounty. Since the mid-20th century we have not been making such settlements. This talk presents a project imagining a better human future, a future grounded in both nature and human nature, achievable by persons who understand themselves as intermediate beings -- in classic Christian terms, as citizens of two Cities.

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