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Symposia
Town+Gown prepares précis documents for symposia events that establish context, as well as summarize the completed Town+Gown project(s) that are the subject of the event. Below are précis documents and working papers from past events.
2025-2026- November 19, 2025
Research on the Road, Part VIII - November 17, 2025
Mud, Glorious Mud: A Dive into Dredged Material (URR.12)
Presentations: Ehtesham | Matthews | Feller | Haight
- June 5, 2025
It’s 10 P.M., January 1, 2075. Do We Know Where Our Subsurface Infrastructure Is, Actually? Can We Get to It Easily to Minimize Disruptions? Do We Still Have Subsurface Spaghetti? (Subsurface.3)
Precis | Bios
Presentations: Bortz-Bauer | Laefer | Lau-Roloff | Lione | Varoli-Jones | Quiroga | Rogers | Tsang-Mirada | Reiner-Kukunoor | Zimmerman | Green | Friesen | Nicholas
One or More Things You Would Change | Rethinking the Unglamorous Underground (AIA New York) - May 19, 2025
NYC’s and NYS’s Advances in Urban Resource Recovery and Re-use Toward a Circular Economy (URR.11)
Agenda | Bios
Presentations: Sylvie Binder | Julia Casagrande and Helen Chananie | Kathleen Prather | Jennifer McDonnell and Kate Kitchener| John O'Neill and Jennifer Gravel | Manal Bawazir, Marta Krawczynski and Noah Williams, NYU/Wagner Capstone Team - November 13, 2024
Research on the Road, Part VII
- July 17, 2024
The Confluence of Engineering and Civil Engineering
Agenda and Bios - July 15, 2024
Extreme Weather and Smarter Solutions
Agenda and Bios | AKRF Presentation | NSF Presentation - May 20, 2024
Participatory Design and Anthropology: Toward a Unified Approach Resilient People Places and Projects.4
Presentations: Zehra Kuz, R.A. | Immigrant Community-Building in Queens Through Use of Public Space (Spring 2024) | Vaidehi Mody | Erick Gregory - February 15-16, 2024
Water In and Water Out—Innovative Water Research
Agenda | Bios | Precis
Presentations - Day 1: Andrea I. Silverman | Franco Montalto and Bernice Rosenzweig | Jennifer Cherrier | Gregory O’Mullan and William Blanford | Xinwei Mao | Benjamin C. Wilde | Tom Theis | Ashwin Dhanasekar
- Day 2: Cristina Negri | Youssef Diab | Barnaby Dobson, Ziyan Zhang, Leyang Liu, and Ana Mijic | Sam Botts White | Şevin Yıldız | Zehra Kuz | Véronëque Ignace, Sofia Mariyamis, and Polly Pierone | Ashish Sharma | Debra F. Laefer
- November 29, 2023
Research on the Road, Part VI
- May 11, 2023
Urban Mining and the CDW Circular Economy: Port Authority Case Study in Action (URR.10)
Presentations: Miriam Voss and Amy Cole (available upon request) | NYU/MOT Capstone Teams: NYU Capstone Team 25 | NYU Capstone Team 26 | NYU Capstone Team 27 - December 14, 2022
Culture+Data for Better Capital Project Delivery.2
Presentations: Ken Simonson | Frank Darconte and Joe Hogan | Sara Venkatraman | Preston Lambert and John Dunn - December 13, 2022
Urban Mining and the CDW Circular Economy (URR.9) | Recap
Presentations: Professor A.C. (Thanos) Bourtsalas | NYU Tandon Capstone Team - November 16, 2022
Research on the Road, Part V - November 3, 2022
Resilient People Places and Projects (RP3).3 | Recap
Presentations: David Green | Zehra Kuz | Constantine Kontokosta | Debra Laefer
- October 13, 2021
Pushing the Urban Resource Recovery and Re-use Envelope: Closing Loops City Program Initiative (URR.8) or You Can’t Have Zero Waste without CDW
- June 10, 2021
Vision Zero Research on the Road, Part IV - April 28, 2021
Under the Ground: Planning, Management, and Utilization.2 Subsurface Transformations for a Smart, Sustainable and Resilient City| Video - April 22, 2021
Sounds of New York City.2: Construction Noise Mitigation and Technology| Video - March 25, 2021
New Frontier for Construction Materials — Decommissioned Wind Blades (URR.7)| Video - March 9, 2021
Clean Water: 2021
Presentations: 2020 Recent Cases of Interest to the Clean Water Community | Post-Maui More Stringent Than States Survey (Brooklyn Law School and Fordham Law School) | Public Water and Wastewater Utilities — New York City Water Finance Authority Case Study - February 26, 2021
Urban Resource Recovery: Pneumatic Flow Tube Technology Event (URR.6 formerly CDW)| Video - December 4, 2020
UrbanARK and Flood Risk| Video
- February 24, 2020
Pushing the CDW Recycling and Re-use Envelope: Waste2Resources (CDW.5) - January 29, 2020
Under the Ground: Planning, Management, and Utilization - November 18, 2019
Resilient Public Spaces and Communities.2 - November 14, 2019
Culture+Data for Better Project Delivery - October 23, 2019
Pushing the Construction+Demolition Waste Recycling Envelope: ENVISION and Measuring Impacts of Re-Using Recycled CD+W on Infrastructure Projects (CDW.4)