Panel invited by NYIT Professor Giovanni Santamaria. This same panel participated in Studio X, and Pedro Ortiz was one of the jurors for Jeffrey Raven’s MSAUD course at Columbia University last Spring. Prof. Giovanni Santamaria (NIYT, New York): New Scale of Urban Catalizers; Prof. Antonella Contin (Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Architecture mon a-mur: The Serlio’s sets portray a type of city; Prof. D. Grahame Shane (Columbia University, New York): Megablock models: the desakota block and new dynamic contexts; Arch. Pedro Ortiz (World Bank, Washington DC): From the scale of the UDE to the local connections; Prof. Michael Schwarting (NIYT, New York): The urban scale of New York – A case study; Prof. Jeffrey Raven (NIYT, New York): Sustainable Communities – Performance Indicators.