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The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP hosted a highly attended event that welcomed respected academics and professionals from architecture and real estate to what the dean, Mark Wigleywarned might take the form a a celebrity roast.

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Proceeding the twenty minute lecture, an "A-list" panel of architects and historians - that included Kenneth FramptonGwendolyn WrightBernard TschumiLaurie Hawkinson and Reinhold Martin - lined up to discuss Chakrabarti's work. His thesis is precisely what the title suggests; we as architects, developers and planners must be leading a movement for a more urban Americaa condition he equates to a better environment and economy leading to increased social-equity.

Through a long-standing collaboration with big government and big business, citizens have participated in a scenario he has dubbed, "The American Scheme," or simply put, consumerism. As a result, millions of Americans have become indebted to houses, cars and healthcare, conforming to an adulterated, and government subsidized, offshoot of the original " American Dream.

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The misinterpretation of this dream has led to an "ownership society," resulting in dangerously attractive government incentives for citizens to easily afford the suburban lifestyle. That dream soon ended, however.