Past Events

Professor Jackelyn Hwang, Sociology, Stanford The Great Recession was marked by the collapse of the housing market and foreclosure crisis, but many places now face a new housing crisis marked by the lack of affordable housing. In 2019, nearly 50% of renters reported paying more than 30% of their income toward rent, compared to 37% […]

Professor Nicole Marwell, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago. Most leaders in today’s nonprofit sector can tell you why nonprofits should do a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs. In this talk, Nicole Marwell presents findings from her forthcoming co-authored book that explains why […]

For urban studies, after more than a century, the question as to what is “urban” remains a vital framing for theoretical enquiries. In the current moment of explosive, fragmented and arguably planetary urbanisation, some quite fundamental lines of enquiry emerge, like, what and where are the territories of urbanisation? To discern what “urban” might be, […]

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 […]