This week, David Macaulay -- illustrator and author of "Cathedral" and "The Way Things Work" -- flies us through the city he loves: Rome. He shares some early sketches for his book "Rome Antics," and talks about how he captures the dizzying, detail-packed, always-changing cityscape and the lives it contains. Meanwhile, Jaime Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, shares his invigorating take on making great cities. His mantra: "Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget."

David Macaulay: Making "Rome Antics"
Despite a love and fascination for Rome dating to his days as an architecture student, David Macaulay ("The Way Things Work") found the path to his book "Rome Antics" took some unusual (and frustrating) turns. Through failed pop-up designs, scribbled out title possibilities, surreal sketchbook pages (think Piranesi meets Escher), and rambling story lines, MacAulay details each step of his winding journey towards his illustrated homage to the city he loves. Watch this talk >>

Jaime Lerner: Sing a song of cities
With maverick flair and a strategist's disdain for accepted wisdom, Jaime Lerner re-invented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way he managed to revolutionize bus transit, awaken green consciousness in a populace accustomed to litter and blight, and change the way city planners and bureaucrats world-wide conceive what's possible within the tangled structure of the metropolitan landscape. Watch this talk >>

Chris Anderson: A vision for TED
At the time of this talk, TED's future was in the balance. Its founder, Richard Saul Wurman, had just sold the conference to Chris Anderson's foundation, and had announced that this 2002 conference was the last TED he would run. Many in the audience had concluded that the conference would not survive the transition to a new owner, and few had signed up for the following year's event. This was Anderson's attempt to persuade TEDsters that the conference had a future, and that the transition from a for-profit event, to one owned by a nonprofit, could work. The talk took place five months after September 11, and at the very bottom of the dot-com stock market bust, when many in the room had lost 90% or more of their net worth. Here, Anderson shares his own story -- and his vision for what TED can become. Watch this talk >>

Robin Chase: Zipcar and beyond
Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing business, but that was one of her smaller ideas. Here, she travels much farther. In a quietly mindblowing way, she lays out a road-pricing scheme that will shake up our driving habits, and a no-fee Internet as sprawling as the US highway system -- a free wireless net, vast and pervasive, that we carry around in our automobiles. How do we do it? Chase finds the answer in a few short lines from "The Graduate." And it has nothing to do with plastic. Watch this talk >>

Ben Dunlap: The story of a passionate life
Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian man he met at Wofford College. In telling Teszler's dramatic life story, which arcs from the Holocaust to the American Deep South of the 1950s, Dunlap shares some deep and, ultimately, moving lessons about justice -- and the power of lifelong learning. Sit back and listen. Watch this talk >>

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Alexandria Lubans-Otto on Alison Jackson's A surprising look at celebrity
Jackson has hit the nail on its head. We really do want to see celebrities acting "badly." After all, we hope they are flawed in private, in hopes that we can remain superior, in our own minds, to these people getting all the attention. I was shocked by some of the images and it didn't make we want more -- rather, less. I truly had to face my own voyeuristic tendencies when it comes to celebrities. I've never really thought about why I like to read about them (usually on the sly, hiding the People Magazine in a copy of the Economist). ...

David Muro on Bill Strickland's Rebuilding America, one slide show at a time
This is taken pretty much straight from Mr. Strickland's talk, but what if culinary schools offered health food programs, where the food prepared by culinary students would be delivered to public schools or homeless shelters? I don't know if this is a viable possibility, but this talk has me thinking of how the byproduct of one successful system could become a nutritional element for a struggling system.

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