John Friedmann, presenting "Place Making in the City: A Colloquium," at the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (RC 21) Conference on Urban Justice and Sustainability, Vancouver, August 22, 2007. Dolores Hayden is correct to note that 'place' is one of the trickiest words in the English language, but "all of us are inherently place-makers, in how we appropriate the blank spaces of our habitat, what Harvey calls absolute material spaces." The city itself can be called "a place of places." Places can be, and often are, "strategic sites for social transformation."
Evidence of, and Barriers to, Gentrification-Induced Displacement Among Social Services in London and Los Angeles
April 5, 2011
Geoffrey DeVerteuil
School of Geography
University of Southampton
March 10-12, 2011
Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
Industry Clusters and Transnational Networks: Japan's New Directions in Regional Policy
October 24, 2008
Co-Sponsored by the Centre for Japanese Research and the Urban Studies Program
Richard Child Hill
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Michigan State University
Asia Unbound: Globalizing the (Un)Making of Urban Histories
February 28, 2008
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of Asian Research and the Urban Studies Program
Dr. Mike Douglass
Director, Globalization Research Center
Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii
Urban Justice and Sustainability
August 22-25, 2007
International Sociological Association Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development (RC21) conference, hosted by the Department of Sociology and the Urban Studies Program at UBC.
Social Justice, Neoliberalism, Cities: Methodologies and Open Questions
May 5, 2007
Urban Studies Symposium, Robson Square, UBC
Organized by Tyler Pearce and Elizabeth Lee
Reclaim the City!
April 18, 2007
Panel discussion, with Sir Peter Hall, Loretta Lees, Elvin Wyly, and Paul Chatterton
Sponsored by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, publisher of City: Journal of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Wednesday, 3:00-4:40 PM, Lombard Room, San Francisco Marriott
El Inmigrante, Mission District, painted by Joel Berger
Of Race and Rust: What We Can Learn from Urban Inequality in the United States
November 2, 2005
Terasen Theatre, SFU Harbour Centre
Thomas J. Sugrue
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by the Living the Global City Series, The Departments of History at UBC and SFU, and the UBC Urban Studies Program
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the U.S. North
November 3, 2005
Green College Coach House
Thomas J. Sugrue
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by the Living the Global City Series, The Departments of History at UBC and SFU, and the UBC Urban Studies Program
Urbanism in the Time of Empire
October 6, 2005
Green College Coach House
Ananya Roy
Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Sponsored by the School of Community and Regional Planning, the Department of Geography, and the Urban Studies Program
Draft of "Praxis in the Time of Empire," the basis of Ananya's presentation in Vancouver. Subsequently published in Planning Theory 5(1), 2006.
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"This is a decidedly noncorporate office party, appropriate to the hipster ethos that attaches itself to the Internet business culture claiming to transform the world...I find myself talking with a young woman in red leather pants. A classically trained musician, she tells me about the CD she just finished recording at her own expense, describing it as 'experimental, avante-garde classical music." After a while she asks me about my own work, and, no covert ethnographer, I tell her that I am doing a sociological study of the neighborhood. 'Oh,' she says, 'gentrification.' Then she narrows her eyes: 'Are you for it or against it?' It turns out that she is profoundly opposed to the escalation of investment in Chicago's West Side. Oddly, she does not seem to think that attending a party for a hot young Internet boutique in the heart of the West Side gentrification scene is inconsistent with those politics." Richard Lloyd (2006). Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City. New York: Routledge, pp. 6-7.
"The Call of the Sea: Maritime Mumbai, 1750-2000."
Professor, Department of History, University of Mumbai
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
12:30-2:00, Buchanan Tower Seminar Room
Jointly sponsored by the Department of History and the Urban Studies Program
Advancing the right to the city through Critical GIS
Professor Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019, 1:30 to 3:00 PM
Geography Room 229
In an era of increasing racial, economic, political and environmental injustices, cities are increasingly ‘spaces of despair’ for many of their residents. Claiming and reshaping urban spaces to create a just, sustainable city requires access to spatial information so that spatial strategies can be formulated. Through nuanced, bottom-up spatial knowledge production, Critical GIS offers opportunities to advance spatial planning, organization and activism among grassroots groups. Through community-engaged research, I examine the ways such contestations are facilitated by Community Information Systems, open GIS, geoweb, and VGI.
Rina Ghose is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in critical GIS, urban geography, political ecology and is well versed in qualitative and quantitative research methods. She has published over fifty articles in journals such as the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, Antipode, Urban Geography, Cartographica, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, and many others. Her research has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
This event is made possible by the support of UBC Urban Studies.
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The Third Annual Bell Urban Forum on Geography and Public Policy
The Second Annual Bell Urban Forum on Geography and Public Policy, Part 1
The Second Annual Bell Urban Forum on Geography and Public Policy, Part 2
The First Annual Bell Urban Forum on Geography and Public Policy
Vancouver Waterfront, Canada Day 2016 (photograph by Elvin Wyly)
Visualizing the local, regional, and transnational urban audiences for distinguished panelists at the Third Annual Bell Urban Forum (below); circle sizes are scaled proportional to total audience views; circle connections are as defined by YouTube's auto-recommend algorithm, which is constantly watching correlations between individuals' viewing choices and those of thousands, millions, or even billions of observationally similar viewers.
