Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

The Flexible City: overcoming Lock-In and Path-Dependency

Series
Alumni Weekend
Video Audio Embed
Cities are epicentres of creativity and innovation but are also easily locked into patterns of infrastructure and behaviour that may not serve them best.
The Co-Director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities looks at these phenomena and considers ways to enhance the ability of cities to adjust to changes in their natural, political and financial environments.

More in this series

View Series
Alumni Weekend

Physics in the 21st century - an exciting Time for Physics at oxford

Dr John Wheater, Chairman of the Department and other members of the Oxford University Physics team about all the latest projects and ideas that they are working on. With Alan Barr and Henry Snaith.
Previous
Alumni Weekend

Earthquake Science in the 21st Century

Dr Richard Walker talks about the science behind earthquakes and the methods used to study them by giving examples from recent global disasters.
Next
Creative Commons Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Episode Information

Series
Alumni Weekend
People
Steve Rayner
Keywords
infrastructure
alumni
culture
innovation
oxford
cities
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 02/10/2012
Duration: 00:50:07

Subscribe

Apple Podcast Video Apple Podcast Audio Audio RSS Feed Video RSS Feed

Download

Download Video Download Audio

Footer

  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Contribute
  • Copyright
  • Contact
  • Privacy
'Oxford Podcasts' Twitter Account @oxfordpodcasts | MediaPub Publishing Portal for Oxford Podcast Contributors | Upcoming Talks in Oxford | © 2011-2022 The University of Oxford