Invited lecture by Garnette Cadogan, Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism, MIT School of Architecture and Planning; Writer and Editor-at-Large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. It is part of the Spring 2026 Lecture Series and Public Programs: "Common Good."
Garnette Cadogan is an essayist whose research explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism. Named by the literary magazine Freeman's as one of 29 writers from around the world who "represent the future of new writing” in 2017, he writes about culture and the arts for various publications.
Cadogan is the Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism. He was a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) at DUSP, and is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. The editor-at-large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), he is at work on a book on walking.
This lecture is supported by the Mary W. and Arthur Q. Davis Lectureship.
