Past Events

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 Brazil’s re-democratization and present findings from his recent book “As políticas do urbano em São Paulo” (“The politics of the urban in São Paulo,” English-version forthcoming). São Paulo has experienced […]

Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation and the Center for Latin American Studies   Metropolitan governance is at the center of current urban debates in Colombia due the emerging interaction of multiple administrative units within landscapes of accelerated urban growth. Colombia has an administrative and political territorial organization based on subnational divisions […]

Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies   The Pearl River Delta Region and its metropolitan hubs have long engaged with the circulation of goods, people and ideas along what is now popularized as the Maritime Silk Road. Over the centuries these movements bridged continental divides. The talk focuses on the historical layers of economic […]

Co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, and the Institute of International Studies Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Water Management: Past and Future Adaptations. A 2004 publication of the IGBP (Global Change and the Earth System) postulated that the Anthropocene really began with what was called “the great acceleration” of the 1950s, based on a […]

Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Working Group (supported by the Townsend Center)   Since 2006 the Universidad de los Andes’ Housing Observatory has been developing housing quality indicators for Bogotá´s housing market. As of today, over 1,000 housing projects have been evaluated, half of […]

Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Working Group (supported by the Townsend Center)   This talk provides a brief overview of the living conditions found in conjuntos urbanos in Mexico City and the Metropolitan Area, and the social and economic problems that they engender. These housing developments represent […]

Co-sponsored by Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)   Speaker: George C.S. Lin, Chair Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong Panelist/Discussant: You-tien Hsing, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley Phenomenal transformation of the landscape in Chinese cities has been conventionally understood as the spatial outcome of the reformation of state-market relations. The […]

Co-sponsored by the Center of Latin American Studies Co-organized by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Latin American Cities Working Group   Much of our understanding of local economic development is based on large urban agglomerations as nodes of innovation and competitive advantage, connecting territories to global value chains. However, this framework […]

Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Political Science   Two aspects of contemporary urban life in Africa are often described as sources of political change: the emergence of a large urban middle class and high levels of ethnic diversity and inter-ethnic social contact. Many expect that these factors will spark a transition away from ethnic competition […]

Co-sponsored by The Urban Displacement Project and Center for Latin American Studies Photo: CIPUV’s Atlas of Urban Growth In most Argentina’s cities, wealth and opportunities coexist with urban informality, poor housing quality and lack of basic infrastructure, traffic congestion, inequality and segregation. In all, land and urban policies are two main determinants. Still, there is less […]