Olalekan Jeyifous | The Apocryphal Gospel of Oakland: (Im)permanence, Improvisation, and Our Absurdist Future
Video recording available
From a Comparative Gesture to Structured Comparison: How China and India Govern their Cities
The field of global urban studies has seen renewed interest in comparisons. A “comparative gesture,” advocated by urban geographers such as Jennifer Robinson and others, has been influential in urban studies in the last decade.
Karen Smilowitz | Modeling access and equity in the design of school districts and related transportation decisions
Register for the Zoom Webinar at the following link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-GoqT0jGNOqYFL4YmJBb8oGVmPsqGaX
Patricie Uwase | What civil engineers and planners should know about building infrastructure in the real world: Lessons from Rwanda
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 Designated Emphasis Open House
Please join us for the Fall 2020 Virtual Open House for DE students, faculty, and anyone interested in joining the DE!
Brandi Thompson Summers in discussion with Samir Meghelli at "A Right to the City"
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.
Veronica Herrera | Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation & Policy Change in Latin American Cities
Talk on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/452650292
Brandi Summers | Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City
Co-sponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the ARCUS program.
(To be re-scheduled) Jin-Yung Wu | The Right to the City: Indigenous Settlers in Taipei, Taiwan
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.
Clara Irazábal-Zurita | Venezuela’s Grand Housing Mission: Janus-Faced, Reversed Gentrification in Caracas
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.
Power at the Margins II: Mobilizing Across Housing Injustice
This event has been cancelled due to the campus closure for large events and classes.
Francesco Bandarin | Notre Dame: The Restoration Process
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.
Sabina Baraniewicz-Kotasińska | Smart city governance models: San Francisco and Aarhus
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.
Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor | Race for Profit How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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.
Melissa Sands | Field Experimental Evidence on Smart City Technology and Voter Registration
2019 Martin Wachs Lecture
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.
Global Metropolitan Studies Fall 2019 Open House
Hillary Angelo | The greening imaginary: Urbanized nature and the making of cities and citizens in Germany’s Ruhr region
Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography.
Eduardo Marques | The transformations of São Paulo and its urban policies since the 1980s
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
Diego Silva Ardila | Metropolitan Governance: Local, National, and Global Entanglement of Urban Policies in Colombia
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation and the Center for Latin American Studies
Helen Siu | Maritime Hubs and Mobilities: Rethinking Metropolitan Hong Kong-South China
Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies
Michel Lussault | Could the Anthropocene be an "Urbanocene"?
Co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, and the Institute of Inte
Jaime Gómez | Assessing Housing Quality in Bogotá: The Universidad de los Andes’ Housing Observatory and the path toward the housing industry’s adoption of quality indicators
Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Wor
Francisco Trejo Morales | Dismantling the Possibilities of Housing: A Brief Overview of Conjuntos Urbanos in Mexico City and the Metropolitan Area
Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Wor
Sergio Montero | Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America
Noah Nathan | Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Political Science
Cynthia Goytia | Urbanization, land and urban policies: an updated agenda of issues and research for cities in Argentina and Latin America
Co-sponsored by The Urban Displacement Project and Center for Latin American Studies
Joshua Apte | Think Globally, Breathe Locally: Sensing Air Pollution for a Planet of Cities
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Keisha-Khan Perry | Politics Below the Asphalt: Anti-Eviction Movements and Sexual Revolution in Bahia, Brazil
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.
Richard Walker | Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
Co-sponsored by the Global Metropolitan Studies program and the Department of Geography
Eduardo Marques | The Heterogeneity of Urban Capital: Development, Construction, Services, and Consulting
In this talk, Eduardo Marques explores the heterogeneity of urban ca
K. Shankari | E-mission platform two-day workshop
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)
Nikhil Anand: Leaks and the Hydraulic City
In this talk I will present an overview of my recently published book, Hydraulic City.
Smart Cities: The Future of Urban Infrastructure
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.
Claudio Sopranzetti: Owners of The Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok
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.
Eleonora Pasotti: Protest and Development in Aspiring Global Cities
In this talk I will present an overview of my current book project Protest and Development in Aspiring Global Cities.
Kagure Wamunyu: How Ride-Sharing Technology Is Impacting Transportation in Africa: The Case of Uber in Nairobi
This seminar runs 4-5pm, and snacks are available starting at 3:30pm.
Liesbet Hooghe: Community, Scale, and Jurisdictional Design within States
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.
Alison Post - Infrastructure Networks and Urban Inequality: The Political Geography of Water Flows in Bangalore
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.
GMS Open House - Fall 2017
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.
Ten Years of Global Metropolitan Studies at Berkeley: A Symposium
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.