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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mon, Dec. 12: Urbanization in Mexico: Responding to Challenges
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Urbanization in Mexico: Responding to Challenges Dates: Monday, December 12, 2016 Time: 4-6 PM Room: C201/202 (The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave.) With Mexico now nearly 80% urbanized, Mexican urban planners and citizens face immense challenges from over-congestion of roadways to providing basic services. Although Mexico has generated innovative responses to such challenges, such as creating "double-decker" transit routes for cars and shutting down major portions of the capital for pedestrians and bicyclists, what are the implications of an increasingly urbanized Mexico? What does this means for its citizenry and the nation's political discourse? How are politicians and urban planners seeking to respond to these challenges? Policy Paradoxes: The Case of the Double-Decker Transit Routes for Cars in Mexico City David López, The New School How is it that a progressive government like that of Mexico City in the early 2000s supported privatizing the city's transportation? By studying the case of the double-decker transit routes for cars in Mexico City, this presentation will discuss the interests and pressures at work in the privatization of a public good. In the Shadow of the Metropolis: Informal and Public Housing in Mexico City David Yee, Stony Brook University A mounting housing crisis in 1950s Mexico City forced architects, politicians, and residents to develop new forms of housing and urban planning in order to confront the challenges of modernization. This presentation will discuss the cultural and socio-spatial dimensions of Mexico's attempts to find housing solutions for the millions of migrants who arrived to Mexico City in the middle of the twentieth century. Moderator: Eric Zolov, Stony Brook University Co-organizer: Araceli Tinajero, City College David López is a Mexican Ph.D. student in the Public and Urban Policy program at The New School. His research focuses on the political economy of infrastructure in capitalist societies, socio-spatial patterns of infrastructural inequality, the infrastructural lived experience of city dwellers, and the role of the state in infrastructure redistribution. David Yee is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at Stony Brook University. His current research explores the historical ties between housing and inequality in 20th century. Eric Zolov is Associate Professor of Latin American history at Stony Brook University and editor, most recently, of Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo (ABC-CLIO). TO REGISTER send e-mail to bildner(a)gc.cuny.edu<http://bildner@gc.cuny.edu>

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Mon, Dec. 5: Book Launch: Camilo Jose Vergara’s Detroit is No Dry Bones
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Book Launch | Camilo Jose Vergara’s Detroit is No Dry Bones Monday, Dec. 5 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor, New York, New York More info and RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/blog/events/detroit-is-no-dry-bones/ The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Collaborative on Global Urbanism at NYU invite you to join us for a discussion and reception to celebrate the release of Detroit is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City in the Industrial Age, from photographer and ethnographer Camilo Jose Vergara. The author will be in discussion with historian and urbanist Tom Sugrue. Over the past 25 years, award-winning ethnographer and photographer Camilo José Vergara has traveled annually to Detroit to document not only the city’s precipitous decline but also how its residents have survived. From the 1970s through the 1990s, changes in Detroit were almost all for the worse, as the built fabric of the city was erased through neglect and abandonment. But over the last decade Detroit has seen the beginnings of a positive transformation, and the photography in Detroit Is No Dry Bones provides unique documentation of the revival and its urbanistic possibilities. Beyond the fate of the city’s buildings themselves, Vergara’s camera has consistently sought to capture the lives of Detroit’s people. Not only has he shown the impact of depopulation, disinvestment, and abandonment during the worst years of the urban crisis, but he has also shown Detroiters’ resilience. The photographs in this book are organized in part around the way people have re-used and re-purposed structures from the past. Vergara is unique in his documentation of local churches that have re-occupied old bank buildings and other impressive structures from the past and turned them into something unexpectedly powerful architecturally as well as spiritually. ________________________________ Camilo Jose Vergara was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2002 and received a Berlin Prize Fellowship in 2010. In 2013, he became the first photographer to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. He is author of numerous books, including Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery; The New American Ghetto; and Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto. Tom Sugrue is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. A specialist in 20th century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race, he is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, and the multiple-award-winning Origins of the Urban Crisis, among others. He recently founded the Collaborative on Global Urbanism at NYU.

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fri, Dec. 2: Puerto Rico: Facts and Realities of Living Under PROMESA
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Puerto Rico: Facts and Realities of Living Under PROMESA Fri, December 2, 2016 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM The Joseph S. Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street 18th floor New York, NY 10036 More info and RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/puerto-rico-facts-and-realities-of-living-unde… Jose La Luz is credited as a key strategist and architect of the campaign for passage of Law 45, granting bargaining rights for over 120,000 public employees in Puerto Rico. He is the Public Policy Director of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) and a veteran trade unionist. Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan @lyciaora<https://twitter.com/lyciaora> is a human rights lawyer who works on the intersection of racial and gender justice in both domestic and international contexts. She is president of the National Lawyers Guild and Associate Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF. Nelson Denis @NelsonADenis<https://twitter.com/NelsonADenis> is the author of "War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror In America's Colony." He is an attorney, playwright, film director, and former representative to the NYS Assembly. This forum is free but RSVP is required

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Thurs, Dec. 1: CUNY Student Walkout for Sanctuary Campuses
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

CUNY Student Walkout for Sanctuary Campuses Trump has promised to deport millions of people and to end protections and assistance for undocumented students. HE SAYS GO BACK, WE SAY FIGHT BACK! On Thursday, December 1, CUNY students walk out and rally at CUNY Central and Trump Tower to demand Chancellor James Milliken and the presidents of the twenty-four colleges commit to the following: 1. Ban ICE and other immigration enforcement officials from all CUNY campuses 2. Refuse to share information with immigration without individuals' consent 3. Forbid CUNY cops and security officers from collaborating with immigration officers 4. Publicly call on state and federal governments to protect students, faculty, staff, and families from deportation and to provide them a path to citizenship Sign on to these demands here: http://bit.do/cunysanctuary<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__l.facebook.com_l.php-3F…> WALK OUT 12:00pm - Gather on your campus and travel together to CUNY Central. If you're interested in organizing this at your college, let us know: cunysanctuary(a)gmail.com<mailto:cunysanctuary@gmail.com>. MEET UP 1:00pm - Meet at CUNY Central, 205 E 42nd St between 3rd and 2nd Aves. 2:00pm - We march together to Trump Tower. EDUCATION, NOT DEPORTATION!

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] 12/9: Event with Eric Sanderson - A Historical Perspective on Water in New York City
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Eric Sanderson: A Historical Perspective on Water in New York City with Focus on Jamaica Bay View this email in your browser[us2.campaign-archive2.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__us2.campaign-2Darchive2…> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/377a1324355680a34ffa5b32a/images/24d5e2ad-83c…] A Historical Perspective on Water in New York City with Focus on Jamaica Bay E.E. Cummings once wrote, sitting near the long-since forgotten edge of Minetta Water in Greenwich Village, ...For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always our self we find in the sea." In this talk, Dr. Eric W. Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> will attempt to find the part of the soul of New York City in its waterways, some missing, others less so. We will wade into the braided streams of different disciplines, geology, hydrology, cartography, literature, ecology, as the Welikia Project[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> does, to reconstruct the historical streamscape of New York. We will also flow forward to make visions of future waters through the Visionmaker Project[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage2.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>. Sanderson will discuss latest findings from a new book about the Prospects for Resilience for Jamaica Bay[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u… d=DgMFaQ&c=8v77JlHZOYsReeOxyYXDU39VUUzHxyfBUh7fw_ZfBDA&r=EjOuXaew-T03xcTuwNjDh0K629JmYrH7p9aMVZl0ZNk&m=i21KtQgPIoU0EhMxRo9x1HBwPocfQQHDxm5h5cKpvMU&s=i5ro7f6ZdYfGM9mU3BYgvEAXwth3BJQQUpwETPK5TNI&e=>, with special relevance to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers $3.8 billion plan to stabilize the Rockaway Peninsula and reduce flooding with a system of tidal gates. Eric Sanderson, Ph.D. is a landscape ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. He is the author of Manahatta: A Natural History of NYC[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> and Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs [cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>and other books. This event is presented in collaboration with NYC H2O[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage1.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>. The presentation is free and open to the public, but please RSVP through this link[cunysustainablecities.us2.list-manage.com]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…>. The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities is pleased to host this presentation by Eric W. Sanderson, Ph.D. on Friday, December 9, 2016 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Hunter College, West Building, Room W615. Please enter Hunter College through our main entrance on 68th Street at Lexington Avenue. Our campus is most easily accessed via the number 6 MTA subway line, 68th Street - Hunter College Station. [https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-twitter-48.png…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> [https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-facebook-48.pn…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> [https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/color-link-48.png][c…]<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.u…> Copyright © 2016 The Institute for Sustainable Cities @ CUNY, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to the CISC mailing list on the CISC website (cunysustainablecities.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cunysustainablecities.o…>) or at a CISC or CUNY-related special event. 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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Just One Week Away! Queens Anti-Gentrification Panel
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

*Invite your friends, tell your professors, and bring your neighbors! *Because we are just one week away from the Urban Studies Club's first-ever, on-campus panel discussion. We would love to see you there, so please join us and our friends from S.O.D.A., IMI Corona, Woodside On The Move, Queens Is Not For Sale, and Arturo Sanchez next Monday night, December 5th at the Student Union Underground on campus. We'll be talking about the gentrification of Queens and discussing opportunities to get involved in the future our your borough. Don't miss out! Here's the details: Monday night, December 5th at 7pm Meet at the Student Union Underground (formally the campus book store) Light refreshments will be provided FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/731750853646354/

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Zoned Out event, 12/12
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

if anyone is curious about the new book Zoned Out! (UR Press, 2016, edited by Hunter/GC professor Tom Angotti and Hunter urban planning graduate Sylvia Morse, we are having our last event of the semester on December 12th in Chinatown. Flyers are attached, and the Facebook invite is https://www.facebook.com/events/630595550399024/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.facebook.com_event…>. Book blurb: Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city’s zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when shaping land use and housing policies. The city promises “affordable housing” that is not truly affordable. Zoned Out! shows how this has played in Williamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown, neighborhoods facing massive displacement of people of color. It looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning and develop housing in the public domain. Endorsements: “From NYC’s 1811 grid to Bloomberg and De Blasio’s upzonings, Zoned Out! shines light on the deceptive ways seemingly race neutral zoning laws continue to maintain and promote the racial and socioeconomic hierarchies America was built to support. A must read for housing advocates, organizers, journalists and academics alike.” --- Andrew J. Padilla, Director of El Barrio Tours: Gentrification USA “Should the ‘highest and best’ use of land be determined by the market, or should the right of citizens to live in stable and equitable communities, especially important for communities of color historically victimized by elite power disguised as ‘the market,’ take precedence? Full of insight and provocation, this volume is essential reading for those scholars, students, and activists searching for alternative courses of action to widespread urban displacement, growing income inequality, and resurgent racial polarization in the United States.” --- J. Phillip Thompson, MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning “New York is a city of neighborhoods, but Angotti, Morse, and their coauthors show that city planning policies systematically disenfranchise and displace low-income New Yorkers who live in historic communities of color. They urge us to rethink what ‘affordable’ housing means, and develop the political will to aim for a radically different system of public resources and community plans.” --- Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Service Learning Internship Poster Session!
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

Service Learning Internship Semester Projects Poster Session. When: Wednesday, Dec. 7th; 12:15-1:30 pm Where: Ground floor Atrium, Science Building (Queens College campus) Come view Service Learning Interns' semester projects and learn more about internships in Urban/Environmental Studies! This is especially important for those who plan to take URBST 370/372 in Spring 2017!!! Refreshments will be served!

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Fwd: Honors in the Social Sciences
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

Honors in the Social Sciences The Honors in the Social Sciences (HSS)program encourages students to gain an in-depth understanding of social sciencetraditions and methods. It offers ambitious students a rigorous program ofstudy emphasizing theories and methods from several social scientificdisciplines, as well as the opportunity to work closely with HSS faculty todevelop unique multi-disciplinary honors projects. It is designed toparallel Honors in the Humanities (HTH) and Honors in Mathematical and Science(HMNS) programs. Students in the program complete a total of 21 credits, mostof which satisfy General Education and/or departmental major and minorrequirements. Students who complete all of the program requirements will have HSS recorded asa minor on their Queens College transcripts. Program Requirements: 1. Social Sciences and Society (HSS 200, 3 credits). Aninterdisciplinary seminar that is open to all students who are interested inthe HSS program. The course provides a foundation and an overview of theprogram, and introduces students to theories and methods from several socialscientific disciplines. The course emphasizes the diversity of approachesthrough which knowledge about "society" is produced in the academy today.Faculty from across the Division of Social Sciences give guest lectures. (3 Credits). 2. HSS Program Application FollowingHSS 200, students apply to gain official acceptance to the program by filling outan HSS program application. Application forms can be obtained from the HSSdirector. 3. Minor Concentration Form Studentswho are accepted into the HSS program must immediately complete a minorconcentration form. This form requires students to describe in detail theplan of study they will take to fulfill all HSS requirements and the theme theyhave chosen. It should be completed in consultation with the HSSdirector. Blank minor concentration forms are available in the HSS director'soffice. 4. Thematic courses Studentstake four thematically related courses - at the 200 level or above, with atleast one at or above the 300 level - for a total of 12 credits. These coursesshould be selected from at least two disciplines in the social sciences. Possible thematic tracks include: *Migration *Democracy, Collective Identity, and Citizenship *Public Policy *Society and Culture in Comparative Perspective * Race,Class, and Gender in Historical and Comparative Perspective It isalso possible for students to focus their studies more specifically withinthese broad themes. For example, a focus on Health and Society could be developedwithin the broader theme of Public Policy; or a focus on Religion could bedeveloped within Society and Culture in Comparative Perspective. Studentsshould select the thematic courses they wish to take in consultation with theHSS director. 5. Capstone Project Eachjunior or senior in the HSS Program will develop a significant piece of socialscience research on a topic related to his/her particular thematic track,resulting in a substantial capstone project. The mechanism for such research projectsis either the honors or capstone program of a department within the division ora 3-credit research-oriented independent study (HSS 350) that is supervised bythe HSS director. 6. Senior Research Colloquium (HSS 390, 3 Credits) Allstudents doing a capstone project also will enroll in HSS 390 Senior ResearchColloquium. In the colloquium students will present their work to faculty andstudent colleagues from across the Division of Social Sciences. FacultyMentors and Advisors: Asignificant part of HSS program is faculty mentorship and advisement. Theprogram director's duties involve meeting regularly with students. Students are also encouraged to work with a faculty advisor who will overseetheir senior capstone projects. Formore information about the program, please contact: Thomas Ort,Associate Professor, Department of History, and Director, Honors in the SocialSciences. Office: PH 352K Email: thomas.ort(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:thomas.ort@qc.cuny.edu> Phone: 718-997-5363

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[UrbanStudiesCircular] Petition to Chancellor Milliken to make CUNY a Sanctuary Campus
by urbanstudiescircular＠lists.qc.cuny.edu 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to revoke the executive order that allows for undocumented youth to receive financial aid and go to school here, through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). CUNY has a huge number of students who benefit from DACA, and in the past week, many of them have expressed their anxieties and fears that they may be deported once Trump takes office. A number of universities across the US have drafted petitions to their presidents and provosts calling for their campus to be designated as a sanctuary campus, which would offer protections against ICE for students and their families who might face deportation. Students at CUNY have decided to draft a petition calling upon Chancellor Milliken to make all of CUNY's campuses sanctuaries for undocumented and immigrant students, and implore all CUNY students, faculty, and staff to sign it, and to disseminate the petition widely within their CUNY networks. Here is the link: https://goo.gl/forms/NAkOChWxUTwHCEsI2<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_forms_NAkOChWxU…>

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