Guest Lecture | Manhattan’s Greatest Grid: The Modern City's Machine of Regulation and its Fantasies Formation

The Master’s Program in Urban Design invites you to the sixth and last session of Season Two of our Colloquium Series: Urban Imaginations and City Form: Manhattan’s Greatest Grid: The Modern City's Machine of Regulation and its Fantasies Formation.

Arch. Shira Noy Goren hosts Arch. Lior Galili, Assistant Professor at CU-Denver, CAP, whose work explores the politics of space in relation to media, and collective imagination.

The arrival of Manhattan’s Great Grid marks a modern radical shift in the perception of urban fabric. The implementation of a total vision of land distribution based on reduced, modular and autonomous Cartesian geometry, gave rise to a new kind of urban planning characterized by a lack of any contextual consideration or expressive dimension.

In this lecture, we will examine the tension between the regulating urban forces of Manhattan’s grid and the expressive entity of the city as a fertile ground for the realization of subjective productions.

Arch. Lior Galili will join via video conference.

Series host & coordinator: Arch. Shira Noy Goren.

Wednesday | June 3, 2026 | 18:30
The School of Architecture, Auditorium
1 Bezalel st., Jerusalem

The event is open, we look forward to seeing you.