Past Events

Please join us for the Fall 2020 Virtual Open House for DE students, faculty, and anyone interested in joining the DE!

Over 25 years ago, Rwanda was almost on the brink of being wiped off the world map. Rwanda had just gone through one of the twentieth century’s worst genocides: the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. This tragedy left the country’s infrastructure completely destroyed.

GMS Core Faculty Brandi Thompson Summers will be discussing her research and her book, Black in Place, with Samir Meghelli, curator of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. The online event is sponsored by the Smithsonian ACM and American University's Metropolitan Studies Center.

Talk on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/452650292

Co-sponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the ARCUS program.

This event has been cancelled due to the campus closure for large events and classes due to COVID-19. We hope to reschedule for the fall.

In conventional processes of gentrification, upper class residents start populating traditionally lower-income neighborhoods eventually causing an economic and spatial transformation that starts displacing the original residents.

This event has been cancelled due to the campus closure for large events and classes.

Francesco Bandarin will speak on the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral after the April 15, 2019 fire that destroyed the structure’s roof and spire.

The smart city concept as a modern proposal for city management to respond to rapid urban development has gained particular significance and popularity and recently has become a new paradigm of urban development and socio-economic growth.

A Matrix Lecture by Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor, author of Race for Profit. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned.

GMS is pleased to co-sponsor the 2019 Martin Wachs Lecture. Now in its twelfth year, the annual Wachs Lecture draws innovative thinkers to the University of California to address today's most pressing issues in transportation.

Please join us for drinks and appetizers at our Fall 2019 open house to learn about the GMS Designated Emphasis (DE, a PhD minor) and meet our 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography.

Please join the Latin American Cities Working Group for a talk with visiting scholar Eduardo Marques, who will discuss urban policy in São Paulo since

Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation and the Center for Latin American Studies

Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies

Co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, and the Institute of Inte

Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Wor

Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Wor

Co-sponsored by Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Co-sponsored by the Center of Latin American Studies

Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Political Science

Co-sponsored by The Urban Displacement Project and Center for Latin American Studies

Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

March 14, 2018 marks the assassination of black lesbian councilwoman Marielle Franco right after she left an event in Rio de Janeiro focused on black women’s empowerment.

Co-sponsored by the Global Metropolitan Studies program and the Department of Geography

In this talk, Eduardo Marques explores the heterogeneity of urban ca

Session August 20

9:00 am - 12:30 pm in 458 Evans Hall & 12:30 - 5:00 pm in 117 Dwinelle Hall (Level D).

Session August 21

9:00 am - 5:00 pm in 117 Dwinelle Hall (Level D)

In this talk I will present an overview of my recently published book, Hydraulic City.

Please join us for the 2018 Martin Wachs Lecture, "Smart Cities: The Future of Urban Infrastructure." The panel will be cosponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning, the Institute of Transportation Studies, and the Global Metropolitan Studies program.

On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand democratic elections and an end to inequality.

In this talk I will present an overview of my current book project Protest and Development in Aspiring Global Cities.

This seminar runs 4-5pm, and snacks are available starting at 3:30pm.

This project engages the jurisdictional implications of two contrasting approaches to subnational governance: a functional approach that conceives government as responding to economies of scope and scale.

Infrastructure services such as water, electricity, and mass transit are central to urban livelihoods. Yet large populations in the developing world receive poor quality services, or lack access entirely.

Join us to learn about upcoming GMS programs and opportunities for graduate students, to speak with GMS faculty, and to hear from GMS students back from summer field research.

Global Metropolitan Studies sprang to life during a decade of major transformations not only in cities around the world but also in how we study cities.