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DATE: Wednesday, November 2
PLACE: Building 200, Room 205
TIME: 4:00pm
(More information below)
Pastor's talk will cover what the Census tells us and what it means about the
future of metropolitan America's society and economy (including a rap on how
equity is now critical to resolving our economic crisis).
Please join us on welcoming Manuel Pastor, a professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California where he also serves as Director of USC's Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and co-Director of USC's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In recent years, his research has focused on the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities in the U.S.; he has also conducted research on Latin American economic conditions. His books include Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future (W.W. Norton 2010, co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh); This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity are Transforming Metropolitan America (Cornell University Press 2009; co-authored with Chris Benner and Martha Matsuoka); and Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (University of Minnesota Press 2000; co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza).
Please join us for the annual Autumn Quarter 2011 "Welcome Back lunch"!
Come help us celebrate the beginning of a new year and chat with current/future majors, faculty and lecturers.
DATE: Septemer 27th (Tuesday)
TIME: 12 (noon)
PLACE: Avocado Court (behind bldg 120)
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - Urban Studies Retreat and Recruitment Event
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Mendenhall 101B (Building 120)
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - Urban Studies Honors Colloquium
Time / Schedule: TBA
Location: Wallenberg Hall Room 326 (160-326)
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - Urban Studies Senior Luncheon
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Faculty Club
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Please join us for Spring Quarter "Welcome Back and Welcome To Urban Studies" lunch!
Come help us celebrate the beginning of a new quarter and chat with current and future majors, faculty and lecturers.
DATE: Tuesday, March 29th
TIME: Noon
PLACE: Building 120 in Mendenhall 101B
- Please join us for a lecture by Anne Whiston Spirn, “Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy and Environmental Justice.”
Professor Anne Whiston Spirn of MIT will present “Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy and Environmental Justice.” Spirn is visiting Stanford as the Model Scholar selected by the senior class in the Program on Urban Studies.
Spirn, a professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, has an international reputation for scholarship that combines an understanding of the natural and built environments. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the President’s Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects. In 2001, she received the International Cosmos Prize for “contributions to the harmonious coexistence of nature and mankind.”
Spirn’s talk will focus on the research-in-action project that she directs in the inner-city neighborhood of West Philadelphia. Since 1987, the West Philadelphia Landscape Project (WPLP) has integrated research, teaching and community service to enhance environmental quality, stimulate economic development, and strengthen public school curricula and undergraduate and professional education. The project is also the subject of Spirn’s forthcoming book, Top-Down/Bottom-Up: Rebuilding the Landscape of Community.
When: Tuesday, November 9, 2010. 5:00 pm
Approximate duration of 1.5 hours
Where: Building 370, room 370
Audience: Students, General Public, Alumni / Friends, Faculty / Staff
Tags: Environmental
Lecture / Reading
Sponsor: Program on Urban Studies. Cosponsored by: American Studies, Architectural Design, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth Systems, The Haas Center for Public Service, Woods Institute for the Environment
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Please join us for an Urban Studies ‘welcome back’ lunch!
Come help us celebrate the beginning of the academic year and get a chance to chat with students, faculty and lecturers.
DATE: Tuesday, September 21st
TIME: Noon
PLACE: Avocado Court (behind bldg 1)
Please RSVP to the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CYTQLLV
- October 29th 2009, Thursday, —Gary Orfield, Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education; and Co-Director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Please visit Dr. Orfield's website here.
"Excluding the Majority: Separate and Unequal Education in Metropolitan
America." 7:00pm in Mendenhall Library, Building 120, 1st Floor
This talk will explore the myth of equal educational opportunity, the policies
that are based on that myth, and the way they smash on the rock of
segregation. The talk will include data from California and racially changing
suburbs and deal with the triple segregation of race or ethnicity, poverty, and
language.
This talk is co-sponsored by:
• The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
• The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
• Department of Sociology, Stanford University
• Stanford University School of Education (SUSE)
• Program in American Studies, Stanford Univers
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October 30th 2008, Thursday, —Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and American Studies, Yale University. "Building American Suburbia: Seven Landscapes or Only Two?" 7:00-8:15pm, Wallenberg Hall, Theater Room. Co-sponsored by: American Studies, Woods Institute - Sustainable Built Environment, Hume Writing Center, Writing in the Major Program.