Past Events

Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering Air pollution is the leading global environmental risk for premature death and a persistent cause of health disparities in US cities. Future choices about energy and transportation will have profound impacts on how the levels and spatial patterns of air pollution evolve. Yet widespread gaps in […]

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. Every 23 minutes, a black youth is killed in Brazil, and Marielle born and raised in the Maré favelas, had spent much of her political life making this […]

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

In this talk, Eduardo Marques explores the heterogeneity of urban capital and assesses its role in the production of urban space and urban policy.  He dialogues critically with a broad literature (especially Marxist and political economy perspectives) to specify the various subtypes of urban capital, their cycles of valorization, and their relationships with the State and with […]

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)   The Global Metropolitan Studies Program and the Division of Data Science are pleased to sponsor a workshop […]

In this talk I will present an overview of my recently published book, Hydraulic City. Drawing attention to the ways in which settlers in Mumbai establish access to water in the city, I begin by showing that urban citizenship is not an event in linear time, but a fickle, distributed and reversible process. Next, I […]

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. The panel will include: Ryan Russo (NYCDOT), Tom Maguire (SFMTA), Maria Mehranian (Cordoba Corporation), Susan Shaeen […]

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. Key to this mobilization were motorcycle taxi drivers, who slowed down, filtered, and severed mobility […]

In this talk I will present an overview of my current book project Protest and Development in Aspiring Global Cities. In the literature on competitive urban policy a special place is occupied by “wannabe world cities” (Short & Kim, 1999; Taylor, 2004), cities that lag closely behind those that have attained a dominant role and […]

This seminar runs 4-5pm, and snacks are available starting at 3:30pm. As ride-sharing technology companies enter the African Continent to tap into its market of one billion people, African cities are adopting and responding to the technology in different ways. Looking at Kenya, a country that prides itself as the tech hub of Africa, there […]