Past Events
Book Talk: Building the New Urbanism
Aaron Passell is an urban sociologist whose research focuses on the built environment as a social process, meaning how people in various roles (professionals, homebuyers, etc.) affect the design, planning, and…
URBS Alumni Weekend Event
Urban Studies Alumni Brunch Dialogue: The Theory and Practice of Politics
We are pleased to host our annual brunch, this year featuring an Urban Studies Alumni Dialogue with Stephanie…
Immigrants Make the City
After decades of decline, cities across America are witnessing growing populations, spurred by the influx of new immigrants. What role do these immigrant communities play in the revitalization of the American…
Urbs Honors Presentations
Our Urban Studies Senior Honor students have spent the spring semester refining their fall senior seminar papers. If you are curious about the senior research process, these presentations will give you a feel for…
Spring Colloquium: "'Preserving Our Way of Life': Annexation, Political Power, and the Color Line in Greater Denver, 1962-1974."
Please join us for the 2015 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series, in the Urban Studies Office: 130 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk. The series provides an opportunity for graduate students who…
Douglas Massey: Segregation and Social Inequality
Douglas Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, took up the study of racial segregation in the United States in his acclaimed 1998 book, American Apartheid: Segregation…
Spring Colloquium: “Saving the School: The Moral Economy of Educational Work in Crisis”
Please join us for the 2015 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series, in the Urban Studies Office: 130 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk. The series provides an opportunity for graduate students…
Spring Colloquium: "Urban Toponymy and Crime in Hector Berthelot’s Mystères de Montréal"
Please join us for the 2015 Urban Studies Graduate Student-Faculty Colloquium Series, in the Urban Studies Office: 130 McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk. The series provides an opportunity for graduate students…