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30th Annual Public Lecture: Mary Pattillo
"Black Picket Fences Revisited: Black Middle Class Neighborhoods in the 21st Century"
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29th Annual Public Lecture: Carl Nightingale
"How American Urban Segregation Outlived Apartheid"
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28th Annual Public Lecture: Bruce Western
"Mass Incarceration and the Prospects for Reform"
Bruce Western, Professor of Sociology at Harvard and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, will deliver Urban Studies’ twenty-eighth annual
27th Annual Public Lecture: Ananya Roy
“The 21st Century Metropolis: Making Urban Futures”
Ananya Roy, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley, will deliver Urban Studies’ twenty-seventh annual lecture, entitled, “The 21st Century Metropolis: Making Urban
25th Annual Public Lecture: Lawrence Vale
"Developing and Redeveloping Public Housing: The Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities"
Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, will deliver Urban Studies’ 25 th Annual Public Lecture, entitled Developing and Redeveloping Public Housing: The Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities.
24th Annual Public Lecture: Peter Dreier
"Is There Hope for American Cities? A Cautiously Optimistic View"
Peter Dreier, the Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College in Los Angeles, will deliver the 24th Annual Urban
23rd Annual Public Lecture: Sudhir Venkatesh
“Law and Order in the Urban Ghetto”
Sudhir Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in New York City, will deliver the 23 rd Annual Urban Studies Public Lecture.
22nd Annual Public Lecture: David Harvey
"Neoliberalism and the City"
The distinguished geographer and social theorist, David Harvey, will be the 22nd Annual Urban Studies Public Lecturer. The lecture is entitled ‘Neoliberalism and the City’, and will take place Thursday, November 2,
21st Annual Public Lecture: Camilo José Vergara
"Images as a Source of Discovery: Camden 1975-2005"
The Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania announces Camilo José Vergara, a New York based photographer and MacArthur Foundation Fellow as its 21 st Annual Public Lecturer.
20th Annual Public Lecture: Eric Klinenberg
"Fighting for Air: Big Media and the Asphyxiation of Local News"
"Fighting for Air: Big Media and the Asphyxiation of Local News"
Klinenberg is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University, a position that he held previously at