Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Urban Planning

Organized by the Columbia Society of Urbanists
With funding from the Urban Planning Department

Lectures in Planning
Fall 2005

All lectures take place on Mondays from 1:00-2:30pm in 300 Buell Hall (unless otherwise noted).
Please join us.

09.19 Jason Corburn, Columbia University, Urban Planning
Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice

09.26 Janina Franco (UP), Megan Kelly-Sweeney, Julia Molloy (Arch)
Global Studio: An International Experiment in Participatory Planning
and Collaborative Design, Istanbul 2005

09.27 Kelo v. New London: A New Era for Eminent Domain?
Peter Abeles, Michael Buckley, Susan Fainstein, Peter Marcuse, Andrew Scherer, Elliott Sclar
(**** Panel will take place in Buell East.)

10.03 Neil Brenner, NYU, Sociology
Rethinking the Logic of Comparison in Critical Urban Studies:
Promises and Pitfalls of the Globalization Debates

10.10 Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center, Sociology
Shopping as an Urban Problem: Chain Stores, Gentrification,
and the Commercialization of Public Space
(Buell East Gallery)

10.17 (Planning in Practice) Holly Leicht, Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Pipeline
Development at the NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development
Planning Affordable Housing in a Landless New York City

10.24 Tatiana Wah, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School
Prologue to National Development Planning for the Republic of Haiti: Social System Analysis & Implications

10.31 Jacqueline Olvera, Connecticut College, Sociology
Mexican Immigration After Urbanism: The Case of New Haven

11.02 Yuri Kazepov, University of Urbino, Sociology
Global changes and local impacts in European cities:
On social exclusion processes in urban Europe and the role of national social policies

11.14 Eric Cadora, Justice Mapping Center
Justice Reinvestment: Planning in High-Resettlement Communities

11.21 Peter Marcotullio, U.N. University
Comparative Energy Transitions between the Developed and Developing
World: An Empirical Analysis

11.28 Betsy Blackmar, Columbia University, History
Collective Property and the Rise of the Free Rider

12.05 Jyoti Hosagrahar, Columbia University, Architecture, SIPA
Indigenous Modernities: Re-imagining Third World Urbanism

Spring 2005

01.31.2005   David Chen, New York Times
Bush Administration Housing Policies

02.07.2005  Elliott Sclar, Gabriella Carolini
A Home in the City: Slums and the UN's Millennium Development Goals

02.14.2005  Peter Marcuse, Columbia University, Urban Planning
The Manipulation of Tradition in Global Cities: Dubai, New York, and Berlin

02.21.2005  Robert Beauregard, New School University, Milano
From Place to Site to Place: A Planning Perspective

02.28.2005 Sumila Gulyani, Columbia University, Urban Planning
Universal (non)service?: Water markets, household demand and the poor in urban Kenya

03.07.2005  Josh Whitford, Columbia University, Sociology
Surviving the Fall of a King: The Regional Institutional Implications of Crisis at Fiat Auto

03.21.2005  Ananya Roy, UC Berkeley, Urban Planning
Praxis in the Time of Empire

03.21.2005 (6pm)  Margit Mayer, Free University Berlin
The Evolution of Urban Social Movements in a Globalizing Period

03.28.2005  Brian McGrath, Petia Morozov, Grahame Shane
Beyond the Design|Planning Divide

04.04.2005  David Gladstone, Univ. of New Orleans, Urban Planning
The Nature and Impact of Tourism in the Third World

04.11.2005  Jonas Bylund and Elisabeth Lilja, Human Geography, Stockholm University
Rethinking Urban Space: Swedish contemporary planning and the case of Hammarby Sjöstad

04.14.2005   Sultanbek Usenov, Columbia University, Urban Planning
Soviet Model of City Planning in Kyrgyzstan

04.18.2005  Sandra Huning, Technical University in Berlin
        Political Action in Urban Public Spaces -- CANCELLED

04.25.2005  Urban Planning Masters' Theses

05.02.2005  Urban Planning Masters' Theses