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The 21st century will be an urban century with more people around the world residing in metropolitan regions than in any other form of human settlement. This urbanization is taking place in both the global North and the global South. Its implications are widespread: from environmental challenges to entrenched patterns of segregation to new configurations of politics and social movements. The Global Metropolitan Studies Initiative is concerned with this urban condition. Bringing together numerous faculty, this multidisciplinary endeavor supports research and houses graduate and undergraduate curricula. It is one of a handful of "strategic" initiatives selected by the UC Berkeley campus to mark a new generation of scholarship and to consolidate an emerging academic field.
Global Metropolitan Studies has been authorized to fill five new faculty positions to build a permanent educational enterprise. Three new faculty members have been hired to date; two additional positions will be filled in coming years.
- Jason Corburn, an expert in environmental planning, in the Department of City and Regional Planning Department.
- Joan Walker, a specialist in infrastructure planning and management, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
- Alison Post, whose research is in comparative metropolitan politics and policy, is a member of the Department of Political Science.
Global Metropolitan Studies has over 70 faculty affiliates on campus. Core faculty come from the founding Departments of City and Regional Planning, Geography, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Political Science, Sociology, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. Additional faculty affiliates are from Anthropology, Architecture, the Energy and Resources Group, Environmental Science Policy and Management, History, Public Health, and Public Policy.
Faculty members with an interest in metropolitan studies are invited to participate in the initiative’s activities.
Global Metropolitan Studies offers a Designated Emphasis for doctoral students, to supplement their disciplinary degrees. The DE has two tracks, Comparative Urban Studies and Infrastructure & Environment, and includes two core courses and dozens of electives in all the disciplines represented by GMS faculty.
The research functions of the GMS initiative are located in the Global Metropolitan Studies Center, which is part of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development in the School of Environmental Design. The Global Metropolitan Studies Center serves as a conduit for faculty research grants, offers space for visiting scholars, and hosts lectures, symposia, and conferences.
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2012 Lectures
Wednesday, May 9,
4-6 pm
Room 110, Barrows Hall
"Ruled by aesthetics: Reimagining the world-class city in Delhi"
Lecture by Asher Ghertner,Lecturer in the Department of Geography & Environment at the London School of Economics
If “modern” cities are supposed to be built through techno-scientific procedures of urban planning and government—such as maps, censuses, and zoning—the conspicuous shortage of such techniques in the world-class redevelopment of Delhi raises the question of how rule there is achieved. Read more
Monday, April 16,
4 pm
Room 305, Wurster Hall
"Transatlantic Travels: Mobile Policies in the Current Era"
Lecture by Kevin Ward, Professor of Human Geography, University of Manchester
Cities in industrialized countries of the north presently face significant financial pressures. In this context many are struggling to finance economic development. Some are now looking elsewhere in the world, searching out 'models' that are understood to have worked, taking bits from elsewhere and reassembling them for their own needs. One such 'model' that is on the move is Tax Increment Financing that emerged in the US in the 1950s and is now being introduced into the UK. This paper outlines its multiple origins, its different pathways, its stops and starts, and its encounters with different cities and what they have meant for its morphing and mutating. Overall, the paper argues that the twenty first century is one that is witnessing a relational comparative urban condition, in which cities are increasingly assembled through drawing on bits of elsewhere.
Kevin Ward is the author of numerous articles and essays including the book (co-edited with Eugene McCann), Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age.
Friday, March 16, 2012
4 pm
Room 575 McCone Hall (by North Gate of the UC Berkeley campus)
"THE NEW RACIAL MEANINGS OF HOUSING IN AMERICA"
LECTURE BY PROF. ELVIN WYLY UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Co-author of Gentrification (2007) & The Gentrification Reader (2010)
A generation ago, financial innovation promised a future of housing markets freed of geographical and institutional scarcity. Yet deregulation and financial innovation were shaped by America’s enduring racial state, which created new inequalities in the unprecedented wave of speculation in mortgage debt: a spatial fix was also a racial fix.
PROF. WYLY WILL MEET WITH GMS GRAD STUDENTS – Friday, March 16, 3-4 pm in room 575 McCone
Friday, October 7
Michael Goldman presenting "Speculation in the Age of Urban Revolution," 4:30 to 6 pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, with reception to follow.
Two events on Wednesday, October 12:
"A Conversation with Jamie Peck," Room 305 Wurster Hall, 1:15 to 3 pm. By RSVP only, email us by October 1.
Jamie Peck presenting "Social Innovation at the Limits of Neoliberalism," 4 to 5:30 pm, 575 McCone Hall, with reception to follow (light refreshments).
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