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When |
Where |
Lecture:Moody’s Blues: Risk, Ratings, and the Production of Urban Space
Katharyne Mitchell, Professor and Chair of Geography Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities University of Washington |
Thursday, 10/22, 4 PM |
305 Wurster Hall |
Lecture: Epistemologies of Comparision in the Study of Globalized Urbanization
Neil Brenner, Professor of Sociology and Geography, New York University |
Monday, Oct 5, 2009,
5:30pm - 7:30pm |
305 Wurster Hall
Reception to follow |
Conference: Peripheries – Decentering Urban Theory
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February 5-7, 2009 |
Howard Room, Faculty Club |
| Mellon Colloquium: Transnational Spaces, Transborder Places: The United States, Mexico, and Guatemala Borderlands |
Friday, November 21, 2008 |
221 Stevens Hall |
Panel Discussion – Closer to Home: Eating from Local Foodsheds
This panel discussion investigated the opportunities and challenges of eating locally grown food from the perspectives of public health, food
access, school food service, and regional farmland vitality. Panelists included Ann Cooper, Paula Jones, Jeremy Madsen, and Kimi Watkins-Tartt, with Jason Corburn as moderator. |
Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
112 Wurster Hall |
Symposium: Bogotá: Lecciones de un Renacer.
Keynote address by former Bogotá mayor, Enrique Peñalosa and talks by Daniel Bermudez, Carolina Barco, Camilio Santamaria, Medellin Gerard Martin, Rachel Berney and UC faculty (co-sponsors) |
Friday and Saturday, October 2-4, 2008 |
Wurster Hall Auditorium and breakout rooms |
| Panel Discussion – Slow Food Nation Considered, a panel discussion with speakers Fred Kirschenmann, Raj Patel, Michael Pollan, and Vandana Shiva, moderated by Richard Walker |
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 |
Wheeler Hall |
Lecture – Mark Hildebrand: "Policy Choices and Slums"
View Flyer (PDF) | 101 KB |
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
214B Wurster Hall |
| Discussion – Robert Gottlieb, Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, Los Angeles about his book, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
106 Wurster Hall |
| Roundtable – Dr. Annmarie Adams, McGill University, Montreal: Architecture is Murder. |
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
316 Wurster Hall |
| Roundtable – Dr. Kin Wai Michael Siu, Professor of Industrial and Environmental Design, School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Flexible Public Design and Changing Urban Needs |
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 |
316 Wurster Hall |
| Lecture – Gordon Bonan, Senior Scientist, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research: Revisiting the Meteorologically Utopian City in a Changing Climate |
Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
106 Wurster Hall |
Lecture – Demographic Change: A New Challenge for Urban and Regional Development in Germany. Speakers from Kaiserslautern Technical University, Germany:
- Dr. Hans-Joerg Domhardt, Dimensions and Overview to Demographic Change
- Prof. Dr. Gabi Troeger Weiß, Challenges for Regional Development
- Prof. Dr. Annette Spellerberg, Consequences for Urban Development
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall |
| Symposium – Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge: New Ruralism and Other Strategies for Sustainable Development |
April 5 - 6, 2007 |
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley |
Lecture – Jefferey Sellers, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Southern California: The Decentered State|
View Flyer (PDF) | 33 KB |
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
104 Wurster Hall |
| Symposium – The Future of Shrinking Cities - Problems, Patterns and Strategies of Urban Transformation in a Global Context |
February 8 - 9, 2007 |
International House, UC Berkeley |
Lecture – Maarten Hajer, Chair of Public Policy and Political Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam: Public Domain Strategies for Fragmented Cities - Reflections on the recent Urban Conflicts in Europe
View Flyer (PDF) | 130KB |
Thursday, February 1, 2007 |
316 Wurster Hall |
| Lecture – First Annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture in Transportation by Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Aalborg University, Denmark: Survival of the Unfittest: Why the worst megaprojects get built and how better policy and planning can stop it |
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112) |
Lecture – Paulo Custódio, Consultant and Founder, Logit Consultoria: Urban Transportation Trends in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
View Flyer (PDF) | 197KB |
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
Wurster Hall, Room 104 |
Lecture – Professor Yoshi Hayashi, Nagoya University, Japan: No-Regret Growth and Smart Shrinking: Matching Policy Instruments to the Dynamics of Metropolitan Growth and Change
View Flyer (PDF) | 78KB |
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
Wurster Hall, Room 305 |
Lecture – Lee Schipper, Director of Research, EMBARQ: MAKING URBAN TRANSPORT SUSTAINABLE: Notes from 4½ Years on the Street in Developing Cities in Asia and Latin America
View Flyer (PDF) | 197KB < |
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
Wurster Hall, Room 104 |
| Lecture – Professor Thomas Sieverts: The Qualification of Urban Regions for "Soft" Regional Management Strategies |
Monday, February 27, 2006 |
Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112) |
| The Global Metropolitan Studies Program Inaugural Event – Lecture: Professor Sir Peter Hall, University College London: The Polycentric Metropolis: Learning from Mega-City Regions in Europe |
Monday, February 13, 2006 |
Wurster Hall Auditorium (Room 112) |
