[URBANTH-L]ANN: Searching for the Just City (Columbia U)

[Angela Jancius]

Searching For the Just City, April 29th, 2006

What:  A one-day conference (detailed program below)
Where:  Wood Auditorium, #113 Avery Hall, Columbia University
When:  April 29th, 2006

Admission charge: free, and open to the public

Sponsors:  The Columbia Department of Urban Planning, the Barnard Urban 
Studies Program, the Columbia Center for Urban Research and Policy, and 
the Columbia Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Schedule:
9:30 - 10:30:  Introduction and Opening Commentary
    Mark Wigley, Dean of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
    Susan Fainstein, Chair of Graduate Program in Urban Planning
10:30-12:30: Economic Development and Social Justice
    Bob Beauregard (The New School)
    James DeFilippis (Baruch College)
    Elliot Sclar (Columbia University)
    Dolores Hayden, (Yale University)
1:30-3:30 (Concurrent Session): Planning New York City
    Laura Wolf-Powers (Pratt Institute)
    Eugenie Birch (University of Pennsylvania)
    Eddie Bautista (Mayor's Office of NYC)
    tba
1:30-3:30 (Concurrent Session): Diversity and the Just City
    John Logan (Brown University)
    Setha Low (CUNY)
    Phil Thompson (MIT)
    John Mollenkopf (CUNY)
4:00-6:00: Towards a New Urban Agenda: The Just City
    David Harvey (CUNY)
    Frank Fischer (Rutgers)
    Susan Fainstein (Columbia)
    Diane Davis (MIT)
    Peter Marcuse (Columbia)

For additional information, contact James Connolly, jjc2119 at columbia.edu


Owen Gutfreund
History and Urban Studies
Barnard College, Columbia University