Past Events

Talk: Dr. Fernando Túlio (ETH Zürich, Lecturer) Discussion: Prof. Danial Aldana Cohen (UC Berkeley, Sociology, GMS affiliated faculty) Organized by the GMS Latin American Cities Working Group Funder: International Alliance of Research Universities – IARU No RSVP required.

GMS is delighted to co-sponsor a talk by Professor José Carpio-Pinedo (Polytechnic University of Madrid), Fulbright Visiting Scholar, at ITS Berkeley. He will speak at a joint ITS-GMS seminar on “Urban Form, Land Use Mix, and Transport Networks.” The presentation is on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 at 3 pm in 410 McLaughlin Hall. Join us […]

GMS will co-sponsor a talk by David Brown (Former Artistic Director, 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial): “Community-driven Futures We Could Have Today.” at 6:30pm on February 26th at Bauer Wurster Auditorium (Reception at 6pm in the Bauer Wurster Gallery). No RSVP required. The Available City is an improvisational urban design framework that proposes Chicago’s 10,000 city-owned […]

Professor Jessica Trounstine, Vanderbilt University (Co-sponsored with the Research Workshop on American Politics) Since the 1980s, schools in the United States have become increasingly segregated along race and class lines. Scholars understand that the underlying driver of this pattern is residential segregation along race and class lines. I propose that exclusive communities seek governmental policies […]

Laura Wolf-Powers, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning in the School of Arts and Sciences at the City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College The housing policy mainstream perceives a supply shortage at the root of North America’s intensifying housing affordability crisis. The standard remedy, proposed for already-dense cities and single-family home-dominated suburbs and […]

Rachel Weber, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago Where most accounts of the financialization of space critique the rentier but overlook the work of the forecasters and the calculative knowledge practices that inform property capital’s (dis)investment decisions, Weber sheds critical light on the professionals that produce knowledge for the investment funds […]