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December 8, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Marc Doussard, UPP PhD Student

Topic
"Building the Low Road: Day Labor and the Housing Boom"

Public conflicts over day labor typically focus on the right to public space and on workers' undocumented status. In short, they focus on the workers themselves. But what about employers? In Chicago and elsewhere, day laborers work in a cost-competitive, poorly regulated construction industry. Understanding this industry is key to improving labor practices and addressing conflicts over day labor. This Friday Forum will illuminate the relationship between day labor and the construction industry by presenting results form interviews with workers, contractors and labor unions.

Pizza and beverages will be served!

December 8, 2006
UIC Neighborhoods Initiative Research Symposium

Evaluating Service Quality:
Suggestions for the Chicago Transit Authority and its Riders

Friday, December 8, 10am
Great Cities Institute Large Conference Room

Sandra Gray, a recent graduate of the UIC Master in Urban Planning and Public Affairs program and former UICNI Graduate Research Assistant, will present a study she recently conducted for her masters project. This study sought to answer the following research questions in relation to the quality of service provided on the CTA's Red Line branch:
1) How do other customers feel about the service on this branch and do they have suggestions to improve it?
2) What are CTA's protocols for maintaining quality and soliciting customer feedback? and
3) What do other transit agencies do to improve quality of service?
In addition to presenting the findings of her project, Sandra will also
share the process by which she conducted her masters project, which
include navigating UIC's IRB approval process - which may be of use for future masters projects, conducting both online and field surveys, and interviewing CTA officials in both customer service and planning
departments.

December 6, 2006
CUPPA Alumni Holiday Party!!

5:00p.m.-9:00p.m.at Jaks Tap
901 West Jackson Blvd.

'Tis the season to be jolly!

Please join the CUPPA Alumni Association and celebrate this holiday season by attending the annual CUPPA Alumni Holiday Party! It's the perfect opportunity to take a break from work or school and share the holiday cheer with friends, professors, and CUPPA Alums.

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be provided and there will be a cash bar.

Please RSVP to Kara Knack at kknack2@uic.edu or 312.996.2569.

December 1, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Kheir Al-Kodmany, Associate Professor UPP

Topic
"GIS Misconceptions: An International Dimension"

November

November 28, 2006
Great Cities Institute Discussion

UIC Great Cities Institute is pleased to present Transaction Costs and Cooperation in Economic Development Ventures, a discussion by:
Annette Steinacker, Visiting Fellow at the UIC Great Cities Institute
Adjunct Professor, Public Administration, CUPPA, Associate Professor in Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University

1 p.m. in Suite 400 CUPPAH

Economic development is typically characterized as a competitive
environment in which communities vie with each other to attract firms and high paying jobs. Only recently has attention turned to the conditions under which cooperation or collaboration among jurisdictions might be feasible. Cooperation is expected to occur when potential benefits from an agreement exceed the transaction costs of negotiating, monitoring, and enforcing it. Inability to agree on a 'fair' division of the gains from regional economic development, uncertainty about other cities' trustworthiness, and the uneven distribution of costs and benefits over time and across cities are some of the reasons cooperation in economic development is a challenge.

Using a national sample of cities, Dr. Steinacker uses the transaction
costs framework to assess the likelihood of cities entering into joint
ventures in economic development. Expected benefits from development are assessed against the transactions costs from similarity of interests across cities, extent of previous interactions with other cities, lower information costs, the number of opportunities to cooperate, similarity of preferences within cities (so development is less controversial), and political ease of leadership in economic development.

This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation.

RSVPs preferred: 312-996-8700.

November 27, 2006
Great Cities Institute Discussion

UIC Great Cities Institute together with the Departments of Political Science and Psychology are pleased to present a discussion by:
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Author of The Upside of Down

3 p.m. in Suite 400 CUPPAH

The Upside of Down sets out a theory of the growth, crisis, and renewal of societies. Today's converging energy, environmental, and political-economic stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet there are things we can do now to keep such a breakdown from being catastrophic. And some kinds of breakdown could even open up extraordinary opportunities for creative, bold reform of our societies, if we're prepared to exploit these opportunities when they arise.

Thomas Homer-Dixon is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the
University of Toronto. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and Scientific American. His last book, the national best selling, The Ingenuity Gap, won the 2001 Canadian Governor General Award for Non-Fiction.

Through November and December, Thomas Homer-Dixon will be on a twenty-city tour in the United States and Canada. For more information on the book tour and The Upside of Down, please go to: http://www.theupsideofdown.com/

RSVPs preferred: 312-996-8700.

November 17, 2006
GCI Film Screening of Yamuna Gently Weeps

3:30 pm in Great Cities Institute
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 400

"Yamuna Gently Weeps" is a moving documentary of the destruction of 40,000 homes of the urban poor in a slum colony called Yamuna Pushta in Delhi, India. Directed by noted journalist, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha, the movie brings to light the contentious nature of urban development in a globalizing city. While the urban planners proclaim the rhetoric of an "inclusive city" the events on the ground suggest real estate driven practices of development that is excluding and marginalizing the urban poor who constitute almost 40 per cent of the city's population and whose labor, particularly in the informal economy, keeps the city running. The movie captures the plight of the residents of the erstwhile slum and the contending views of urban planners, politicians, social and grassroots activists, urban scholars, bureaucrats and slum dwellers themselves.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Ph.D. student Ratoola Kundu, from UIC CUPPA, who was formally employed as a research assistant in an NGO (non governmental organization) in Yamuna Pushta; and with Ph.D. candidate Leon Morenas, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, who is currently researching the processes by which the Master Plan in Delhi excludes the urban poor from the development process.

Please RSVP at 312-996-8700. We look forward to seeing you.

November 17, 2006
GIS Day at UIC

9:30 - 11:15 a.m. Meet and Greet
Location: Electronic Learning Lab, Richard J. Daley Library, 1st Floor past Circulation Desk, University of Illinois at Chicago, 801 S. Morgan

Extended introduction of GIS resources at UIC
Presentation of research using GIS at UIC by Liang Long, Doctoral candidate, Department of Civil Engineering and P.S. Sriraj, Research Assistant Professor, Urban Transportation Center

11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Job Fair
Location: College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago, 412 South Peoria Street

Job Fair for Students
Lunch (pizza)

GIS Day is a grassroots event that formalizes the practice of geographic information systems (GIS) users and vendors of opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications of this important technology. The event is principally sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the
Association of American Geographers, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett–Packard, and ESRI.

At UIC, GIS Day 2006 will be celebrated on Friday 17 November 2006.
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/ucgis/gisday/index.html

For the first event of the day, we would like to invite GIS instructors and users on campus to introduce themselves to the campus community and fellow practitioners to get to know each other better. Each speaker will have an opportunity to talk about themselves and projects that they are working on. In addition, we've asked a few colleagues to elaborate on their uses of GIS. It would be wonderful if you could join us for the event.

The second event gives students an opportunity to meet representatives from agencies who hire staff with GIS skills. We expect staff from ESRI, one of the leaders in the GIS software industry, to be present. Please encourage students who know GIS or are planning on learning GIS to attend.

If you have questions or suggestions, please contact:

William "Max" Dieber, Associate Director
Great Cities Urban Data Visualization Program
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
University of Illinois at Chicago
B-15 CUPPAH MC 350, 412 South Peoria Street
Chicago, IL 60607, 708-567-0400, maxdbr@uic.edu
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/udv

November 17, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

noon in 418 CUPPAH

Presenter
Doug Gills, Associate Professor UPP and students in UPP 545

Topic
"Katrina's Aftermath"

November 13, 2006
UTC Diversity Lunch

noon in 340 CUPPAH, UTC Conference Room

Presenter
Taha Rashidi

Topic
Iran

November 6, 2006
Lecture Co-sponsored by Architectos, City Design Center, College of Urban Planning and Policy, and School of Architecture

6:00 p.m.
1100 Art and Architecture Building

Presenter
Jorge Wilheim

Topic
Dealing with Cities in Brazil: Governance and Public Participation in Urban Design and Planning

The author of ten books on planning, development and urban life, Brazilian architect and urban planner Jorge Wilheim has designed and been involved with more than twenty master plans of major cities and new towns. He will present his concepts, methodology and experience of urban planning that he uses in his professional work, illustrated with the examples of master plans and strategic urban proposals for Sao Paulo, Nova Lima, Araxa, and the new cities of Angelica and Brasilia. He will use these examples to comment on "environmental issues" and "decent work" issues, both necessary requirements to guarantee the sustainability of development.

November 6, 2006
The Craig S. Bazzani Lecture in Public Affairs

3:30 p.m.
Illinois Rooms, Student Center East
750 S. Halsted

Presenter
Dr. Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania

Topic
The Lure of Extreme Rhetoric

Dr. Amy Gutmann will present the annual Craig S. Bazzani Lecture in Public Affairs, entitled "The Lure of Extreme Rhetoric" at UIC on Monday, November 6. Dr. Gutmann, the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania, is a renowned scholar who examines some of the most important issues in our society today: religious freedom, race, democracy, and government ethics.

Chancellor Sylvia Manning will be introducing Dr. Gutmann. The Lecture is sponsored by the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs. All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend. For any questions, please call IGPA at 6-6l88.

November 3, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Robin Hambleton, Dean, CUPPA

Topic
"New Leadership for Democratic Urban Space"

Some commentators suggest that collegiality in higher education is now in short supply. Given the competitive world we now find ourselves in it is certainly the case that, in some universities at least, the predominant academic culture is one of self-interested scholars striving to enhance their personal reputations. Not a pretty sight.

By drawing on his article in the current issue of the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) - 'Purpose and Collegiality in Planning Education. An International Perspective' , Vol 26, No 1 - Dean Hambleton will explore:

- The major shifts now taking place in the global 'Brains Business'

- The importance of introducing wise approaches to performance measurement in higher education

- The value of College-based strategic planning as a means of building community and solidarity

Part of the conversation will focus on the changing nature of 'scholarship'. There are several dimensions to modern scholarship and it will be suggested that the successful university of the future - both in the US and internationally - will be the ones that recognize that outdated definitions of scholarship may need to be discarded.

October

October 30, 2006
UTC Diversity Lunch

noon in 340 CUPPAH, UTC Conference Room

Presenter
Leonor Vanik

Topic
Czech Republic

October 27, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Robin Hambleton, Dean, CUPPA

Topic
"New Leadership for Democratic Urban Space"

- The major shifts now taking place in the global 'Brains Business'

- The importance of introducing wise approaches to performance measurement in higher education

October 23, 2006
Seminar to Address U.S. Population Impacts in 2050

10:00 a.m.
UIC Great Cities Institute
4th Floor, CUPPA Hall
412 S. Peoria St., Chicago, IL

Presenter
John D. Landis, Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley

Topic
What Will The United States’ Population Footprint Look Like In 2050? Modeling the Spatial Dynamics and Environmental and Resource Impacts of U.S. Metropolitan Growth and Change - A National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics Project

Between now and 2050, the population of the United States will likely grow by 120 million people according to the middle-series projections published by the U.S. Census Bureau. In many ways, the where and how side of the future may be more important than the how many side. To the degree that future spatial development patterns mirror those of the recent past, most of the increase in the U.S. population will occur at the edges of existing metropolitan areas, and at densities that are substantially below those of older cities and regions.

Understanding and projecting future development locations and forms has never been a major national priority in the U.S. Except for a very few cases, there have been no national studies of the spatial extent, patterns and impacts of population growth in America.

To remedy this situation, a two-year NSF project is now underway to: • Build a comprehensive national spatial database

• database for measuring the extent, patterns, and environmental and resource impacts of metropolitan population growth in the US

• Use this database to identify key and common drivers of metropolitan growth across all continental U.S. regions and metropolitan areas

• Construct a series of GIS-based models for projecting and simulating alternative future patterns and densities of U.S. population growth

• Explore the impacts of three alternative development scenarios on the natural landscape and ecology, on urban energy and water use, and on vehicle miles of travel — a major correlate with urban air pollution.

Come listen to the theory, background, and logic of such an audacious project!

October 20, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Nina Martin, UPP Ph.D. Student

Topic
"Precarious Jobs, Vulnerable Workers, and Immigrant Organizations:
The Fight to Build Stable Communities in Chicago"

October 17, 2006
The Public Administration Lecture Series

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
110 CUPPAH

Presenters
Michael Baker, Assistant Village Manager Downers Grove, IL and John Novinson, Village Manager Deerfield, IL

Topic
Issues Facing Tomorrow's Local Government Leaders

Local government employees were asked to speak on what they see as the issues confronting their position in the next 5, 10, 15 years. Come and listen to their answers. Some of the issues they might discuss include: how to best use technology to improve services, how local governments can increase revenue without raising taxes, or how to educate the community about new services. What other issues do you think local government employees should consider? Bring those ideas Tuesday!!

Please contact Gabrielle E. Brown, Program Coordinator for the Graduate Program in Public Administration with any questions (gabbyliz@uic.edu or 312.413.3181).

October 13, 2006
Where Are Poor People to Live?
Transforming Public Housing Communities

Edited by:
Larry Bennett, DePaul University
Janet Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago
Patricia Wright, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.E. Sharpe, 2006

Discussion with the editors and authors of this recently released book and a critical analysis of what is happening to public housing in Chicago.

3-6pm with refreshments
UIC Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted
Cardinal Room, 3rd Floor
Parking across the street

Please call Esteleta Cameron at 312-996-6336 or email cameron@uic.edu for more information and to RSVP.

October 13, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

Noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Asta von Buch, PhD candidate at the Center for Metropolitan Studies of the Technical University, Berlin

Topic
"Interpreting The Iconography Of The Metropolitan Railway Station, 1850-1950"

October 12, 2006
Public Administration Program Open House

6:00 - 7:30 pm in Room 110 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria Street
University of Illinois at Chicago

RSVP's are appreciated: (312) 413-3181 or send an email to gabbyliz@uic.edu

This event is designed to introduce the program and answer questions about admission requirements, financial aid opportunities, career placement services or any other PA matters of interest. Of course, you are welcome anytime to simply come in and visit our facilities and meet program faculty, current students, and college administrators.

October 6, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

Noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Jennifer Malloy

Topic
"Chicago Area: A Mapping Project On Cultural Participation"

October 5, 2006
CUPPA International Lecture Series

4 p.m. in 110 CUPPAH

Presenters
Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo, Institute for Urban and Territorial Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Topic
Latin American Cities: Inequality, ghettoization and the dispersion of
modernity

After years of neoliberal policies, economic inequality in Latin America has increased. However, and curiously enough, that inequality has not been translated to the city in a direct and univocal fashion. In many cities, at the same time the process of ghettoization advances, residential segregation has decreased its scale, and modernity has been dispersed though the construction of highways, shopping malls, and gated communities. In this context, Sabatini and Salcedo, propose a non deterministic way of looking at the cities in Latin America; an approach that recognizes the differences provoked by local cultures and socio political factors.

Francisco Sabatini: Full Professor in the Institute for Urban and Territorial Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in
Santiago. He received his Ph.D. in urban studies from UCLA and has published extensively in the topics of residential segregation, urban land markets and environmental conflicts.

Rodrigo Salcedo: Assistant Professor in the Institute for Urban and Territorial Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in
Santiago. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His current areas of research are urban theory, public space, and the subjective experience of living in the Chilean ghettoes.

Along with Dr. Guillermo Wormald, professors Sabatini and Salcedo are the responsible researchers of the World Bank / Chilean commission of Science and technology project “Successful and catastrophic neighborhoods produced by the Chilean housing policy: The influence of residential segregation”.

September

September 30, 2006
First Annual George Krambles Transportation Scholarship Fund Raising Event
Participate in a unique, one-of-a-kind CTA charter train tour of Chicagoland including an architectural tour around the Loop.

You will travel on the Green, Pink, Brown, Red and Yellow Lines and ride in the vintage 4000 series coaches. The all-day event costs $50 per person with all monies going to the endowment to fund scholarships for graduate students in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs pursuing a career in transportation. George Krambles, a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was Executive Director of the CTA until he retired in 1980. He was a staunch advocate, supporter and friend of the Urban Transportation Center at UIC. For additional information or to register to attend the event, please contact:

Joseph DiJohn, Research Professor and Director
Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative
Urban Transportation Center (MC 357)
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 340
Chicago, IL 60607
phone: 312-996-1458, fax: 312-413-0006

September 29, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

Noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Jeff Rouse, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of North Texas

Topic
"Is Bruegmann Right: An Economist's View of Sprawl"

September 22, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

Noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Richard Kordesh, Visiting Senior Planner in Residence

Topic
"Sweet Beginnings for Ex-Offenders: A honey-based social enterprise in Chicago’s Westside"

During the past two years, the North Lawndale Employment Network, a CBO in Chicago’s west side, has operated an innovative social enterprise aimed at creating transitional jobs for ex-offenders. The project – Sweet Beginnings – produces honey and honey products for sale to consumers and chefs in the Chicago area. The project has garnered considerable foundation and corporate attention, and is now undergoing a strategic planning effort led by the Boeing Corporation, with assistance from the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. NLEN, along with nine other organizations worldwide, recently received a major award from the MacArthur Foundation for its innovative programs. Sweet Beginnings raises many issues of interest to community developers, planners, policy makers, and researchers. We will explore the project’s development and the challenging issues it confronts during Friday Forum!

September 17, 2006
Family Summer Fun with the UIC CUPPA Alumni Association
Please bring your families and friends and join the UIC CUPPA Alumni Association for an outdoor picnic and summertime fun!

Garfield Park Conservatory
300 N. Central Park Ave. (Jensen Room)
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Cost $15 per person (box lunch and beverage)

Enjoy your last days of summer with family and friends at Garfield Park. Picnic will be followed by a brief presentation about the recent developments in the Park. Then, get a chance to experience fun and learning by exploring the Garfield Park Conservatory and Chicago's best kept secret, Garfield Park marketplace. Children are welcome. Either order a box lunch for your kids or bring your own food for no charge. There is a Children's Garden in the Conservatory and lots of room to play in the 300-acre park. For details on conservatory displays and marketplace go to http://www.garfield-conservatory.org.

Register to Kara Knack with menu selection of beef, chicken, or vegetarian box lunch by September 13th at kknack2@uic.edu, 312.996.2569.

September 15, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

3 p.m. in 2028 University Hall

Presenter
Annaya Roy, Associate Professor & Chair, Urban Studies Program, Department of City and Regional Planning and Associate Dean, International & Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley

Topic
"Medieval Modernity: Modalities of Contemporary Urban Citizenship"

September 12, 2006
The Great Cities Institute Presents The Vernon D. Jarrett Lecture Series Race and Education in the 21st Century

The First Lecture of the Series:
The HistoryMakers: A New Primary Source for Scholars

3:00 p.m.
Great Cities Institute
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
412 S. Peoria St., Suite 400
Please RSVP: 312-996-8700
gcities@uic.edu

The HistoryMakers is a national video archive of African American life oral history interviews and operates as a special collection as part of the Illinois state library system. The HistoryMakers' purpose is to record, disseminate and preserve interviews, highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups or movements and demonstrating the broad range of African American responses to the historical events and trends of the 20th century. In its six years, The HistoryMakers has grown into the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, with a collection of 1,400 interviews and a goal of 5,000 by 2011. The lecture will focus on the archive, the stories that lie within and how the use of innovative technology can create a scholarly resource.

This lecture is the first of a series as part of the Vernon D. Jarrett Senior Fellow Program—a new program established by the Great Cities Institute at the University Of Illinois at Chicago and the Vernon D. Jarrett Foundation. In the tradition of Vernon Jarrett’s contribution to open discussion of important urban issues, the program offers a lecture series, which brings public intellectuals to share their analysis of current issues.

September 8, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

Noon in 110 CUPPAH

Presenter
Charles Hoch, Professor UPP

Topic
"Emotions and Planning"

Obsolete ideas about emotions handicap practical planning. Emotions improve planning judgments - intuition matters. How does this work?

Planners learn to embrace objectivity. Suspend feelings. Those emotional attachments might distort your judgment. But professionals should care about their work and believe passionately in what they do. How do planners reconcile objective judgment and passionate commitment? Learn what current research teaches us about the wisdom of intuitions and feelings when we make practical judgments. Those who offer good counsel often combine cognitive and emotional insights in their planning advice. Learn some distinctions that you can use to put this distinction to better use making plans.

September 1, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!

Noon in 110 CUPPAH

Topic
"Rehabilitation of Duolin Road, Shanghai, China"

Presenter
Aaron Cortes, MUPP Student

This collaborative project at Tonji University focuses on rehabilitation and redevelopment of the historical and commercial sites of Duolun Road.

The main emphasis is on preservation of the urban fabric using a
design-oriented approach. The Duolun Road community is located in the Hongku District in the middle of Shanghai. It encompasses 23 hectares that have residential, public-service and commercial uses. It includes a number of important historical structures that are protected and others for which historical-preservation designation is sought.

The project group consisted of foreign students and Chinese students in the fields of architecture, geography and urban planning and policy. The final presentation was evaluated by several directors of Tonji University and the Director of Urban Planning in China.

August

August 30, 2006
Public Administration Lecture
Rob Seidner, HR Evaluator, U.S. Office of Personnel Management and PMF alumni, will speak on The Presidential Management Fellowship

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Room 110 CUPPA Hall

The first lecture topic of the year will be on the Presidential Management Fellowship. This prestigious fellowship functions as a two-year rotational development program as the first step to entering the upper echelons of the Federal Government. The aim is to expose Fellows to high-level administration and interagency networking opportunities while providing intensive training and work experiences. At the end of the program, Fellows will have obtained multiple promotions and will bring to their future leadership roles a unique understanding of how the different departments can and should work together.

The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program was established by Executive Order in 1977 and updated in 2003 to attract to the Federal service outstanding men and women from a variety of academic disciplines and career paths who have a clear interest in, and commitment to, excellence in the leadership and management of public policies and programs.

Graduate students from all academic disciplines who are U.S. citizens and expect to complete an advanced degree during the current academic year are eligible to be nominated by their schools. The application process will begin September 1, 2006 and all applications are due by midnight October 9, 2006. Anyone interested in applying for this fellowship should plan to attend to get an insider’s perspective on the application process and how the Fellowship works.

Questions?
Gabrielle Brown
Program Coordinator
312.413.3181 or gabbyliz@uic.edu

July

July 28, 2006
PhD Dissertation Defense
Raymond Massenburg, PhD in the Urban Planning & Policy Program will be defending his dissertation: Race Related Context and Social Consequence of Foreclosure: A Study of Chicago Neighborhoods

Friday, July 28, 2006, 3:00 p.m.
3rd floor, IRRPP Conference Room

June

June 8 - 11, 2006
Planners Network Conference 2006
Tending The Garden: From Grassroots to Green Roofs

The Planners Network Conference 2006 will bring together an array of planning practitioners, community and economic development professionals, organizers, policy analysts, students and faculty to explore the history and future of planning as a progressive profession. The conference will explore innovative strategies and successful models for changing public policy and shaping the planning profession to produce more equity. The conference will provide an important forum for linking academics, with community leaders and planning professionals, and exploring new opportunities to shape the planning profession. Spend the late spring in Chicago at the 2006 Planners Network Conference learning about progressive planning in the heart of the Midwest.

http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/upp/pn/index.html

May

May 6, 2006
CUPPA Commencement
Saturday, May 6, 2006
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
Student Center East Illinois Room
750 South Halsted Street

Brief reception to follow.

April

April 28, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Rich Roths, AICP. Principal Planner, URS Corporation and Member of APA New Orleans Team

Topic
Disaster Mitigation Planning

Rich Roths, AICP, is a nationally recognized expert in floodplain
management and mitigation planning. He was a member of the team that the American Planning Association (APA) sent to New Orleans, shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck, to assess the planning functions of the City. He will discuss pre and post disaster mitigation planning, an exciting new field of planning. Mitigation planning looks at the hazards which our communities face, and recommends actions that can be taken to reduce or eliminate the impacts of the hazards. Pre-disaster mitigation planning is the preferred form of planning for a number of reasons, but can be tailored to serve those who fail to plan ahead. The negative part of not planning ahead is that mitigation funds may be delayed until the mitigation plan is complete and approved.

April 21, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
2 p.m. in GCI Conference Room CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
UPPSA

Topic
This Is America: New Orleans in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

- The presentation will focus on UPPSA's volunteering trip to New Orleans
over spring break.
- It will include background on Katrina and disaster planning issues.
- Main Attraction - pictures and other media from the journey, showing
the destruction in New Orleans.

April 21, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Karobi Saikia

Topic
Environmental Conservation in and around Guwahati City

April 19, 2006
Public Administration Program Open House

6:00 - 7:30 pm in Room 110 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria Street
University of Illinois at Chicago

RSVPs are appreciated: (312) 996-3109 or send an email to sean@uic.edu

April 18, 2006
CUPPA Alumni Association Spring Speaker Series
Successful Case Studies Leveraging Community Involvement

Location
Center for Neighborhood Technology, 2125 West North Avenue, Chicago (near the Damen CTA Blue Line Station)

Program
5:30 p.m. Registration and Networking Reception including light appetizers and beverages
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

Registration Fee - General Admission: $10; U of I Alumni Association Members: $5 (Join the UI Alumni Association when registering for this event and pay just $5); Students: $3 with UIC I.D.

To register, contact Kara Knack at (312) 996-2569 or kknack2@uic.edu. Pre-registration is appreciated but not necessary

April 18, 2006
UIC Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar Seminar
1:00 pm in the Great Cities Institute Large Conference Room
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 400
Chicago, Illinois 60607

Topic
Street Culture Wars: Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap

Presenter
John Hagedorn, Associate Professor Department of Criminal Justice UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

How can anyone understand gangs today without exploring the meaning of gangsta rap? Rap is an immensely popular, world-wide cultural genre, its hard core version sensationalizing the gangster lifestyle. But it has not been a topic considered particularly important by the field of criminology or in the study of gangs. The lack of social science analysis of gangsta rap is a consequence of criminology's systemic de-racializing of both gangs and culture. It is a good example of what Robin Kelley means in his blistering critique of the lack of "complexity" in white social science.

I argue culture has assumed a much greater importance in the global era than in the first three quarters of the 20th century. On the one hand, American mass culture operates as a ubiquitous homogenizing force with rap becoming the music of choice for youth around the world as media companies "merchandize the rhymes of violence. "On the other hand, rap and hip hop have also become a contagious culture of rebellion, the precise definition of what Castells means by "resistance identity."

John Hagedorn has been studying gangs from more than 20 years. He is a Faculty Scholar and Fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago Great Cities Institute and an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice. He and his partner Mary Devitt have six children, three grandchildren, and one dog.

Visit the gang research website at: http://gangresearch.net

Please RSVP at 312-996-8700. We look forward to seeing you.

April 17, 2006
Great Cities Institute Brown Bag Seminar
Noon in UIC Great Cities Institute Main Conference Room
412 S Peoria St. Suite 400
Chicago, IL

Topic
The Economics of Main Street America: a sneak preview presentation of the Williamston Retail Opportunities Plan!

Presenters
Amanda Eichelkraut, Johanna Nyden, and Sarah Robinson; UIC Urban Planning and Policy Graduate Students College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

Join UIC MUPP graduate students Amanda Eichelkraut, Johanna Nyden and Sarah Robinson as they present their master’s research project -- A Retail Development and Opportunities Plan for the City of Williamston, Michigan. The plan provides analysis of existing fiscal and market conditions as well as recommendations and strategies for growth in the community.

Located in central Michigan, Williamston is ten miles east of East Lansing (the home of Michigan State University), and is twenty miles from Lansing (the state capital). Williamston was originally founded as a mill town. It was an important stopover on the Grand River trail, which linked it to the major economic hubs of Detroit and Lansing. During the mid-twentieth century, it had a bustling downtown filled with retail shops and offices. By the latter part of the century, many of those shops had moved, and it became well known as an antiques town. Today, Williamston is working to support locally-owned retail businesses, with the growth of large, low cost retailers booming in neighboring communities.

In May, Amanda, Johanna and Sarah will travel to Michigan to present their findings and recommendations to Williamston city officials, residents, and other stakeholders.

Please RSVP to Amanda Eichelkraut at aeiche2@uic.edu. We look forward to seeing you

April 14, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Co-sponsored by UPPSA
2:00pm in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Jack Bridges

Topic
"Yes, people live there: A look at CHA high-rise communities."

Drawn at first to the abandoned architecture of what was once the largest housing project in the world, Jack Bridges soon decided that what really merited documentation was the community still living in those few remaining structures not yet demolished. Since that point in 2002, he’s been working on The Robert Taylor Project, getting to know the residents of this South Side Chicago public housing project and making portraits that connect the people with the place. The sepia-toned gelatin-silver prints in this portfolio suggest the same warmth as their tint, by no means a nostalgia for the inner-city environment, but rather a respect for the humanity of its denizens. It’s not that these pictures forget about the issues of drugs and guns and poverty attendant to the Robert Taylor housing, but they do, importantly, remember that there are other issues as well.

Jack Bridges was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He holds a BA in history from Colgate University, Hamilton, New York (2000) and an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (2002). In 2005, photographs from The Robert Taylor Project were published in Fader Magazine and City Journal, and solo exhibitions of the series were held at Northwestern University and at Filtro in Miami. He has also made a short film, Inside Robert Taylor, on the same subject. Bridges’ previous work includes a series on the East Side of Detroit, and a series on paramilitary murals across Northern Ireland.

Written by Kendra Greene
Museum of Contemporary Photography
http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/bridges_jack.php

April 14, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Robert Bruegmann

Topic
Sprawl: A Compact History

Sprawl has typically been described as a recent, particularly American
form of development caused by market failures, poor governmental policies and by new transportation and communications technologies. According to anti-sprawl reformers, sprawl is inefficient, inequitable, environmentally damaging and aesthetically ugly. Robert Bruegmann argues that sprawl is not recent, nor peculiarly American nor the direct result of new technologies or economic conditions or governmental policies but instead a persistent, complex and integral part of urban history. Particularly during the last 100 years, in economically mature and affluent cities, whether in North America or Europe or elsewhere, densities at the core have fallen as most new urban growth has
occurred at the periphery. According to Bruegmann, sprawl is neither good nor bad. It creates problems but they are no worse than those associated with any other kind of urban settlement pattern. Even assuming that sprawl was a bad thing, moreover, the history of attempts to stop it has not been encouraging. Whether in London after World War II or Portland, Oregon, in recent decades, it is not clear whether anti-sprawl regulations were actually successful in stopping sprawl, and they both produced clear unintended side-effects, some of which arguably more damaging than the sprawl itself.

April 12, 2006
Urban Planning and Policy Program Open House

6:00 - 9:00 pm in Room 110 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria Street
University of Illinois at Chicago

April 7, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Robert Fairbanks, Assistant Professor, School of Social Services Administration, University of Chicago

April 5, 2006
UIC School of Public Health Dean's Forum
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
1603 W Taylor Street
SPHPI, Room 109 (Auditorium)

Brick by Brick: Building the Healthy Housing Research Agenda

Presentation by:
David E. Jacobs, PhD, CIH
Director of Research National Center for Healthy Housing

Discussion Panelists:
Janet Smith, PhD
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
Co-director, Natalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement University of Illinois at Chicago

Thomas Theis, PhD
Professor, College of Engineering
Director, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy University of Illinois at Chicago

Moira Zellner, PhD
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy

Sponsored by: UIC School of Public Health

April 3, 2006
UIC Great Cities Institute Brown Bag Seminar

Rethinking the Just City

Susan Fainstein Professor of Planning and Director of PhD Studies Columbia University

12:30 pm Great Cities Institute Conference Room
412 South Peoria, Suite 400
Chicago, Illinois 60607
RSVP, please, 312-996-8700

Join us at the Great Cities Institute for this very special brown bag seminar by one of the nation's leading political economists and planning scholars. Building on recent work on planning and the "Just City," Professor Fainstein will hold an informal seminar on the topic.

Susan Fainstein is Professor and Acting Director of the Urban Planning Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. In July 2006 she will become a professor of urban planning in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in political science from MIT. Among her books are The City Builders: Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York, two co-edited volumes on urban tourism--The Tourist City and Cities and Visitors--and the co-edited Gender and Planning. She is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Educator Award of the Association of the American Collegiate Schools of Planning.

We look forward to seeing you.

March

March 31, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Kheir Al-Kodmany

Topic
Planning for the Hajj, the Pilgrimage to Mecca

March 17, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.

Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Joseph Schwieterman, Director, Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, DePaul University

Topic
The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago

March 15, 2006
PA Forum: Spring 2006
5:30 - 6:30 pm.
CUPPA Hall Room 110

Dr. Jim Thompson Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Public Administration and Dr. Sharon Mastracci Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Public Administration

Title:
The Blended Workforce: The Use of Nonstandard Work Arrangements by Public Agencies to Achieve Workforce Agility

Abstract:
Professors Sharon Mastracci and James Thompson will report on their research into the use of nonstandard work arrangements in the public sector. Based on a survey of twelve federal agencies, they identified five major benefits to employers from the use of nonstandard work arrangements including part-time, seasonal, on-call and contract workers.

March 10, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
9 a.m. Palmer House East Entrance.

Presenter
Bill Peterman, Professor Governor's State University and Mike Shiffer, UIC and CTA

Chicago's Elevated Rapid Transit System Mobil Forum, Registration Required (OPEN)

March 3, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
1 p.m. in Room 2028 University Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Jenny Edbauer, Assistant Professor, PennState

Passages of Power: Mapping Locality at the End of Cultural Studies

March 3, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Matthew Hickey, National City

Addressing Finance and Affordability Gaps in Single Family Housing Development: Tools for Practitioners

February

February 24, 2006
Grant Writing for Planners Workshop with Noah Temaner Jenkins

Free. Registration Required. Lunch Provided.

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
262 CUPPA Hall

February 10, 2006
The Urban Transportation Center's Diversity Lunch is pleased to host Dean Robin Hambleton.

"Diversity in the UK - personal reflections"

The Dean will present his thoughts on ethnic relations and policies in the UK, followed by an open discussion.

Location: UTC Conference room, 3rd floor Suite 340
Date and time: Monday, February 13, 12 noon to 1 pm (everyone is welcome to bring one's own lunch)

February 10, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter: Noah Temaner Jenkins, Grantwriting Consultant

Topic: Basic Grantwriting for Planners

January

January 26, 2006
APA Chicago Metro Section, UPP and DePaul Networking Session with Practicing Planners

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Jak’s Tap

January 18, 2006
Urban Planning and Policy Open House

6:00 - 7:30 pm in Room 110 CUPPA Hall

January 17, 2006
Public Administration Program Open House

6:00 - 7:30 pm in Room 110 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria Street
University of Illinois at Chicago

RSVPs are appreciated: (312) 996-3109 or send an email to sean@uic.edu

January 13, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
January 13, Noon in Room 110 CUPPA Hall.
Refreshments Provided

Presenter
Kisha Farmer-Smith, UPP Ph.D. student

Topic
Exploring Community Empowerment and Standpoint Development:
Gender-Specific Youth Work in Chicago

January 11, 2006
Presentation by Adiam Tedros on
'Revitalizing Swedish Metropolitan Areas'
January 11, Noon in GCl Conference Room.

As part of the 'CUPPA International Initiative' Adiam has been a Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) since last August. She will be returning to Sweden shortly and this is a last chance to hear her talk about the interplay between race and urban policy in Sweden.