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June
4, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 7
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
National Model, Forecasting, REMI Forecast and; Regional Profile
Using DevSight (Part II)
May May
29, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 7
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
Transportation Using TranSight
May
14, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 6
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
Economic Development Using BizDev
May
12, 2007
CUPPA Commencement
10:00 a.m.
- 12:00 Noon
Student Center East Illinois Room
750 South Halsted Street
Brief reception to follow.
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10, 2007
CUPPA
International Lecture
4 p.m.
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Professor Sandro Balducci, Politecnico di Milano
Topic:
The Strategic Planning of Milan – Lessons for the
US
Responsible
for the new strategic plan for the province of Milan, Alessandro
Balducci will illustrate the process of developing a strategic
plan for a weak institutional actor – the Province - in an environment
where all administrative borders are losing much of their meaning. The
strategic project, called ‘City of Cities’, is an attempt to plan
through a cooperative effort, guided by the Province at either the level of
the
Urban region and at the level of the Mega city region of Northern Italy.
The main
focus is the ‘habitability’ of the fragmented
city and the strategies to attain it.
Alessandro
Balducci, PhD, is Professor of Urban and Territorial Policies
and Head of the Department of Architecture and Planning
at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Past President of
the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP),
Dr. Balducci is currently a member of the Executive Committee
of the European Urban Research Association.
Dr. Balducci
has been deeply involved in research and practice, leading
experimentations in participatory and strategic planning
at different scales. He is now responsible for the Strategic
Plan for the Milan Province.
May
2, 2007
Third
annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum
9 a.m.
Illinois Room, Student Center East
Panelists,
including Director of Public Administration Michael Pagano, will
examine the roles that major infrastructure projects will play
in developing and sustaining future cities. Forum tickets cost
$25 and include a continental breakfast, lunch and parking. UIC
faculty, staff and students, as well as students from other colleges
and universities, will receive complimentary admission. To register,
or receive more information, please visit http://www.RJDUrbanforum.uic.edu .
May
1, 2007
GCI Economic Development Cluster
Seminar
1 p.m.
GCI Conference Room, Suite 400 CUPPAH
Presenters:
Brent Ryan, UIC City Design Center, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public
Affairs
Rachel Weber,
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Topic:
Does Urban Design Influence Property Values in High-Poverty
Urban Neighborhoods?
The nationwide
real estate boom of the 1990s brought new housing development
to many formerly distressed urban neighborhoods. These developments
took the form of one of these three primary design types: enclaves,
traditional neighborhood developments, and infill housing. Brent
Ryan and Rachel Weber investigate the relationship between the
urban design and the value of new housing in order to determine
whether or not urban design was a significant contributor to
housing values in high-poverty Chicago neighborhoods between
1993 and 2003. An extended version of the study is also available
on the Lincoln Land Institute web site: http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/PubDetail.aspx?pubid=1130
RSVP preferred,
(312) 996-8700
To request
disability accommodations please contact Denita Johnson at (312)
996-7871.
April
April
30, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 5
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
Model Linkages, Part III; Economic Geography
April
27, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
noon
110 CUPPAH
Presenter:
Jeffrey Rous, Associate Professor of Economics, University of North Texas
Topic:
“Opposites Attract” or “Birds of a Feather”:
Measuring the Value of Diversit … or Homogeneity
Jeffrey Rous
is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University
of North Texas, specializing in health and urban economics.His
research agenda is to understand the future of urban development.
He is investigating how increases in travel cost
(given an expectation of a rise in the price of gasoline and fossil fuels
over the next 50 years) will affect urban development. He thinks there will
be increased pressure towards density, but zoning and other land use controls
may resist changes that would allow it.If people respond to higher gas prices
by wanting to live closer to work, then there will be pressure for a wider
distribution of demographic characteristics in each community. He is looking
at how much resistance to that there will be, and using the American Housing
Survey to investigate how much people are willing to pay to live in communities
with a more homogeneous population.
April
24, 2007
GCI Seminar
1 p.m.
GCI Conference Room
Presenter:
Evan McKenzie, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Topic:
HOW UNIVERSAL IS THE SPREAD OF PRIVATELY GOVERNED "GATED" NEIGHBORHOODS,
and WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR URBAN THEORY?
Residential
private governments many of them "gated" have
become the predominant form of new housing construction across
the US. Many other nations are now experiencing something similar.
This talk documents
the spread of private communities, seeks to explain their emergence
in many locations around the world, and considers the implications
for urban theory, where explanations emanating from neoclassical
economics compete with those derived from postmodern theory.
Evan McKenzie
is one of the nations leading authorities on homeowner and condominium
associations and is a frequent commentator for the
national mews media on that subject. He is the author of Privatopia:
Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government
(Yale University Press) which received the "Best Book on
Urban Politics" Award
from the American Political Science Association, and has written
many academic articles and papers. Evan McKenzie practiced law
for ten years in California before entering academic life and
is currently licensed to practice in Illinois and California.
He is also an adjunct professor at John Marshall Law School where
he teaches a course on the law of common interest housing in the
Real Estate Law program.
April
20, 2007
Free GIS Seminar Series
2
p.m. - 5 p.m.
Room 110
CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Dawn McWha, ESRI
Topic:
Intro to Geodatabase
Preferred audience:
Those who have some experience using GIS, especially using ESRI's
ArcGIS 9.x software
Please RSVP
to: Nina Savar nsavar@uic.edu
April
20, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
1 p.m.
Room 262 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Jihad Muhammad, President / CEO of the African Scientific Research Institute
Doug Gills,
Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Policy
Phil Ashton,
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning & Policy
Jihad Muhammad will discuss the African Scientific Research
Institute goals and objectives. President / CEO of the African
Scientific Research Institute, Dr. Muhammad is a forensic scientist,
specialist in reconstructing facial features from human skull samples.
Douglas Gills will discuss "The Concourse Model": a development
strategy for developing several towns in Mississippi. Dr. Gills
specializes in Community Development and Economic Development theory
and practice in the Urban Planning and Policy Program. Phil Ashton
will discuss communicative planning techniques used in large scale
communicative planning with examples from the New York Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation Refined Master Site Plan for the World Trade
Center. Phil Ashton joined the Urban Planning &
Policy Program as an Assistant Professor in August 2005. Born and
raised in Canada, Phil trained as a political scientist and an
urban planner before working in the cooperative sector in Canada
and the United
States. Since returning to academia, Phil's research has focused
on the implications of financial modernization for the revitalization
of central city neighborhoods.
April
20, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 262 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Yandan Lu, Ph.D. Student
Topic:
Examing of Path Dependency of Urban Development and Work Trip
Mode Share Balance Using Agent-Based Model
Unbalanced travel patterns, more specifically the over-reliance
on
automobile, have emerged over the past five decades in almost all
urban areas of the U.S. As documented by many, the pattern leads
to an inefficient utilization of existing transportation resources
and contributes to environment pollution and energy crisis. The
cities in developing countries, like Bangalore, India or Beijing,
China, are
experiencing tremendous economic growth with ensuing in rapid increases
in travel demand. Essentially, they are going through the similar
process that U.S. cities had experienced in the last century.
The
explosion
of car ownership exerts great pressure on the limited infrastructure.
Also, the high population densities typically that are found
in those cities make them impossible to bear the pressure of
auto-dominant travel pattern. Government interventions are desperately
needed to integrate land use development and modify travel behavior
to develop a sustainable transportation system in the long-run.
However, the types of interventions needed and their effectiveness
need to be studied. Such study must account for the interaction
among public policies, land use pattern and travel behavior.My
dissertation research will involve an in-depth study of travel
behavior, framed as an outcome from both land use and individual
location choices, by developing a computer simulation system
in an Agent-Based Model (ABM) framework. System behavior of the
transportation
network, like road congestion, energy consumption, and environment
pollution, are the results of the interaction among the disaggregate
and heterogeneous
travel mode choice. The use of the ABM approach enables me to
simulate and examine collective travel pattern emerging from
individual choices, which is influenced by various factors. It
could lead to the
evaluation and identification of key actions by the public sector
that may result in integrated and sustainable transportation network
over a long time period.
April
19, 2007
CUPPA International Lecture
4 p.m.
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Jim Claydon, President of the UK Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
Topic:
UK Urban Planning after Tony Blair – Lessons for the
US
In the period
since he became UK Prime Minister in 1997 Tony Blair has transformed
the legal basis of urban planning practice in the UK. A debate
now rages in the UK regarding whether further reforms are necessary
following a controversial report on urban planning for the UK
Treasury - known as the Barker Review.
- Should the
urban planning system serve
economic development objectives in an
aggressive way?
- What is
the future for sustainable development
if the UK system is changed once again?
- Can useful
insights for US urban planning
practice be drawn from an evaluation of recent
UK experience?
Jim Claydon
is President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), a role
similar to that of the President of the American Planning
Association (APA). Previously the Head of the School of Architecture
and Planning at the University of the West of England, Claydon has wide experience
of urban planning in both academe and practice, and is currently the lead on
a three year project with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister monitoring
the implementation of new spatial planning systems.
April
16, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 4
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
Model Linkages, Part II; Population wages, Prices, Profits,
Market Share
April
13, 2007
CUPPA International Lecture
10
a.m.
GCI Conference
Room
Presenter:
Professor Frank Gaffikin, Queen’s University, Belfast
Topic:
The global discourse of modern higher education
Frank Gaffikin
will speak on the institutional transformation seen in higher
education as universities strategically and politically assume
new and different roles in the cities of the world. Professor
Gaffikin
is especially interested in the ways universities in the United States are
taking on some of the more prevalent discourses of globalization in their strategic
and programmatic plans. He will be joined in this seminar by David Perry, director
of the Great Cities Institute and collaborator on the European Union sponsored
project CU2 - Contested Cities and Urban Universities - at both the Queen's
University, Belfast and the University of Illinois at Chicago Great Cities
Institute.
Frank Gaffikin is Reader in Urban and Regional Development at the Queen's University,
Belfast. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in the University of Ulster where
he worked for 18 years, during which he was co-Director of the Urban Institute.
Prior to that, he occupied other posts such as research economist for the trade
union movement in the West Midlands. As a community educationalist in an action-research
project at Queen's, he has gained extensive experience with the community/voluntary
sector. Frank Gaffikin has been a special adviser for government on urban regeneration,
city visioning, and regional and metropolitan planning. Also, he acted as academic
adviser to the Minister for Employment and Learning, on the nation's policy
for Employability. Professor Gaffikin is Director of Research for the Contested
Cities Urban Universities Project. He is a regular Senior Visiting Fellow to
the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago.
RSVP preferred,
(312) 996-8700
April
12, 2007
GCI Special Lecture
3
p.m.
GCI Conference
Room
Presenters:
Michele Kelley, Associate Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences
Alejandro Luis Molina, Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Topic:
A Puerto Rican Community Responds to the HIV/AIDS Crisis:
The Role of Social and Cultural Capital April
12, 2007
Public Administration Career
Fair
3
- 6 p.m.
105 and
110 CUPPAH
RSVP to Jamie
Masterson at jaime43@uic.edu .
April
6, 2007
Planners Network UIC Salon
8:00 pm
Hyde Park Borders Bookstore
1539 E 53rd St.
Come join our
discussion on Race in Planning through an investigation of the
writings of Cornel West! We hope that the discussion will involve
how race effects the professional practice of planning, community
development and activism, as well as issues here at the CUPPA
program.
April
6, 2007
Free GIS Seminar Series
2
p.m. - 5 p.m.
Room 110
CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Nina Savar, CUPPA
Topic:
Address Matching tricks
Preferred audience:
Those who have some experience using GIS, especially using ESRI's
ArcGIS 9.x software
Please RSVP
to: Nina Savar nsavar@uic.edu
April
6, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Rachel Dziallo and Jessica Thompson, MUPP students
Topic:
Urban Planning in Curitiba, Brasil
Rachel Dziallo
and Jessica Thompson both studied in Curitiba, Brazil last summer
through an urban planning program at the University of
Florida. Come hear them speak about their experience, as well as their
individual research projects on innovative community development practices
such as Curitba's "Green Exchange" and "Lighthouses of Knowledge".
April
5, 2007
The Wiewel Lectureship in Urban
and Economic Development
co-hosted by
the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and the College
of Business Administration
Inaugural Lecture
Thursday, April 5, 2007
5:00 p.m.
Student Center East, Cardinal Room
University of Illinois at Chicago
"The University
as Urban Developer" by David C. Perry and Wim Wiewel
The Wiewel
fund supports an annual lecture, co-organized by the College
of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and the College of Business
Administration, related to urban economic development. The fund
was established with the support of many donors byWim Wiewel
to honor his parents, Leo Wiewel and Truus Wiewel-Ypma, as well
as to express appreciation for the opportunity UIC provided him
for a quarter century of involvement in the great city of Chicago.
Wiewel was at UIC from 1979–2004 where he held positions
as director of the Center for Urban Economic Development, special
assistant to the chancellor for Great Cities, and dean of the
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and the College
of Business Administration.
Please RSVP
to David Morley dmorle2@uic.edu.
Pay parking
is available in the Halsted Street Parking Structure on the corner
of Halsted and Taylor Streets.
April
3, 2007
GCI Lecture
1
p.m.
GCI conference room
Presenter:
Kheir Al-Kodmany, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, Urban
Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Topic:
Challenges in Planning for Hajj, the Annual Muslims’ Pilgrimage
to Makkah: Spatial Modeling for Complex Planning
Challenges
in Planning For Hajj… discusses insurmountable challenges
in planning for Hajj, the annual Muslims’ pilgrimage to
Makkah. It addresses important questions on employing technology
in planning for a large-scale and complex event. Hajj involves
a series of complex spatial-temporal activities of hosting and
transporting 2-3 million pilgrims through multiple sites in a
week. Spatial modeling is particularly challenging where seemingly
insignificant errors could lead to immense tragedies. The work
also reflects on the complexity of the decision making process
in the operational and political realms.
April
2, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 3
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
Model Linkages, Part I, Output, Linkages, And Capital Demand,
REMI Linkages
March
March
21, 2007
IRRPP
Critical Issues Series
3:00 - 5:00
pm
CUPPA Hall, Room 110
Topic:
Putting Kids in Power OR in their Place? Youth and Civic Engagement
Panelists:
Boni Enrile, Coalition of African Asian European and Latino
Immigrants
Keisha Farmer-Smith,
PhD student Department of Urban Planning and Policy & Alternatives,
Inc.
Nicole Cabell-Pope,
Build Today, Lead Tomorrow
Discussant:
Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, Associate Professor, Department of Policy Studies, UIC
Youth involvement
in voting and civic issues is declining, according to
academic literature. Many researchers have expressed concern that today's youth
do not participate in political and civic life. While youth
engagement has decreased in the national political realm, many youth
agencies and groups have involved youth in local campaigns addressing issues
that are important to them and their communities. The presenters on this panel
argue that youth civic engagement is thriving on the local level, and in some
cases even connecting to national issues. The panel will offer case studies
of youth involvement in civic life from three Chicago youth communities and
programs: Build Today, Lead Tomorrow, a geographically based community in Chicago's
North Lawndale neighborhood; Girl Driven Research, a gender-based research
program at Alternatives Inc; Civitas, a program for immigrant/refugee communities
conducted by the Coalition of African Asian European and Latino Immigrants.
All of the projects address the unique ways in which youth can help identify,
build capacity, and resolve important issues in their communities
Institute for
Research on Race and Public Policy 312-996-6339
March
20, 2007
UIC
Great Cities Institute Seminar
1 pm
GCI Large Conference Room
CUPPA Hall, Suite 400
Presenter:
Helen Liggett, Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland
State University
Topic:
Moments of Hesitation: Situating Citizenship in the Excess of Fact
"I have
been interested for some time in how photographic images work,
more particularly in what makes a good picture. At this time,
as an urban theorist, I am deeply concerned by the inability
of conventional theory to forcefully address the issue of what
makes a good city. Even Henri Lefebvre's powerful claim to 'the
right to the city' pales in the light of current urban distress
and the seeming contradiction to that of the persistence and
centrality of cities to making civilized life possible. This
presentation uses photographer Lee Freidlander's notion 'the
excess of fact' to re-conceptualize the notion of citizenship.
'It's a generous medium, photography,' he writes. How might that
generosity be applicable to urban life?"
HELEN LIGGETT is a Photographer and Professor of Urban Studies at Cleveland State
University. This presentation is part of a work in process on "The Image
and Urban Life". Other current projects include "Let All God's People
Say Amen", a community photography project in collaboration with Morning
Star Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. She is author of Urban Encounters, a
book using images and text to consider the city as a site of cultural imagery,
and co-editor, with David Perry of Spatial Practices.
March
20, 2007
UTC
Diversity Lunch
noon - 1 pm
UTC conference room
Panelists:
Jose Sifuentes, City of Chicago department of Human Services
Fred Friedman,
Chronic Homeless Constituency Committee, Chief Organizer for
Next Steps
Topic:
Homelessness and Transportation
Please email
questions/topics for panel to Stephen Hunt shunt5@uic.edu
March
19, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 2
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
National Model, Forecasting, REMI Forecast and Regional Profile
Using DevSight (Part I)
March
16, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Kerry Leigh, Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Section of the
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)
Topic:
Natural Landscaping and Conservation Design
March
16, 2007
UPP Summer Internship Fair
9:00 a.m.
- 5:00 p.m.
UPP Offices
The fair
is a great opportunity to connect and interview with
various organizations and agencies for a summer internship. For more information,
please view the attached document or contact Jennifer Blackman at jblack4@uic.edu.
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March
14, 2007
Presentation on Minority Student
Stress & Campus Climate
3:00 – 5:00
pm
CUPPA Hall, Room 110
Presenter:
Reba L. Chaisson, Ph.D., AERA Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Topic:
Campus Climate and Student Stress
A little
over a decade ago, Smedley, Myers and Harrell (1993) introduced
the concept of minority status stress (MSS) to the discourse
on student achievement and persistence in higher education.
Defined as “the unique stresses experienced by minority
students that heighten feelings of not belonging and interfere
with minority students’ effective integration into
the university community” (1993, p. 435), the MSS scale
has since been employed widely in research on college student
stress. But what are the antecedents of minority status stress
and how do their effects vary by race, socioeconomic status
and gender? The model for this study adds to the literature
by hypothesizing campus racial climate as an antecedent to
MSS. Survey data were collected from a random sample of 314
students at a Research 1 university. The findings indicate
that students’ experiences and their perceptions of
campus climate significantly impact their levels of minority
status stress.
March
13, 2007
UIC
Great Cities Institute Seminar
1 pm
GCI Large Conference Room
CUPPA Hall, Suite 400
Presenter:
Dennis Judd, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal
Arts and Science Fellow, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois
at Chicago
Topic:
Civic Capacity and Urban Power: A Theory of Governance
In this colloquium presentation, Dennis R. Judd, proposes
that regimes constitute only one of several strategies of governance
in American cities. Clarence Stone, the main architect of the
regimes model, has recently attempted to apply the concept
of civic capacity to educational policymaking. Dennis Judd
demonstrates how civic capacity can be transformed into a general
theory of urban power.
Dennis R.
Judd has published extensively on urban economic development,
national urban polcy, and urban regeneration in Europe and the
United States. For some years he has been engaged in a sustained
research program on tourism as an instrument for urban revitalization.
This presentation is based on a book he is co-authoring, Civic
Capacity and Urban Power: Governing St. Louis, 1952-2005.
RSVP preferred, (312) 996-8700. We look forward to seeing you.
To request disability accommodations please contact Denita Johnson, UIC Great
Cities Institute, 412 S. Peoria, Suite 400, Chicago, Illinois 60607, 312 996-7871.
March
10, 2007
CUPPA Alumni Resume and Portfolio
Review Workshop
Room 110
CUPPA Hall
9 am - noon
Get ready
for that job (or internship) interview! Professionals in
urban planning and public administration -- CUPPA alums
-- will review your resumes, work samples, and portfolios
and give you the tips you need for job-hunting success.
March
9, 2007
Free GIS Seminar Series
2
p.m. - 5 p.m.
Room
110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Chieko Maene, UIC Library
Topic:
Hotspot analysis
Preferred
audience: Those who have some experience using GIS, especially
using ESRI's ArcGIS 9.x software
Please
RSVP to: Nina Savar nsavar@uic.edu
March
9, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Richard Kordesh, Visiting Senior Planner in Residence
Topic:
Productive Family Habitats: Design, Planning, and Policy
Strategies
March
8, 2007
Spring Speaker Series
Topic:
E-Government: Connecting Citizens with Government in the Digital Age
Room 110
CUPPA Hall
412 S. Peoria Street
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Student
tickets are Free. All others are $10 payable
at the door.
Please
RSVP to Kara Knack at kknack2@uic.edu by
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March
5, 2007
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
Session 1
10 a.m.
UTC Conference Center
Presenters:
Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist
Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
Topic:
Introduction to REMI, REMI Presentation, and Model Presentation
March
2, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Keisha Farmer-Smith, PPA Student
Topic:
Using Grassroots Feminist Standpoint to Act Now! Community
Based Gurl Driven Research in Chicago
The purpose
of this presentation is to explore how theory directly impacts
practice when young women and adult allies in Chicago explore,
research and change their communities through a community
based, participatory research process. Grassroots approaches
to organizing typically support popular education through
consciousness raising in community change work. Feminist
standpoint theory posits that women and other marginalized
populations including youth can, through their voices, stories
and opinions act as experts in their communities and lives.
Utilizing an approach designed to redefine the subject as
a research expert for grassroots community change is a complex
process that may not neatly fit into traditional modes of
planning or policy development and analysis. This presentation
argues that this unique blend of theoretical and practical
supports urban youth as social change agents. It also demonstrates
how community based, youth driven research can provide opportunities
and skills for assessment, critique and reshaping of certain
status quo institutions and urban policy. The presentation
will also show how this approach can be used as a basis for
organizing that is outcome focused and leads to action and
change in addition to demystifying research, making it a
tool for critical thinking and understanding of life.
February
February
23, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenters:
Sarah Jo Peterson, candidate for assistant professor in UPP
Topic:
A Model City, An Expressway and the FHA: Learning from Planning
on the World War II Home Front
Ms. Peterson
has a PhD from Yale University in American History, and the MS
from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Urban and Regional Planning.
She currently is an assistant professor at the University of
Oklahoma's Division of Regional and City Planning, and previously
worked for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
February
21, 2007
IRRPP
Critical Issues Series Lecture
Presenters:
Dr. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies program at the University
of Illinois at Chicago
- and -
Dr. Sharon
Telleen, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor in the Institute
for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois
at Chicago
Topic:
" Creating Educational Settings to Foster Academic Achievement for Latino
Youth"
3:00-5:00 pm
CUPPA Hall Rm 110
This panel presentation will discuss the findings of two research studies conducted
by Dr. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez and Dr. Sharon Telleen. Dr. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez
will present her qualitative study of an urban high school with predominantly
Puerto Rican students, as described in her book School Kids/Street Kids. In
this book, Dr. Nilda Flores-Gonzalez describes the socio-psychological dimensions
of student identity development and the effect school practices have on them.
Principles for creating effective education settings are also identified in
Dr. Sharon Telleen's study. This study was funded as part of the Safe Schools/Healthy
Students, US Department of Education Initiative. Dr. Sharon Telleen will report
on the findings of a three year, cross-sectional study of 11,000 students in
a suburban, predominantly Latino school district of seventh, ninth and eleventh
graders. The presenters will discuss the policy implications of their findings.
February
16, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenters:
Leigh Schrock, Public Housing Program Analyst; Mr. Abbey Ogunbola,
HOPE VI Grants Manager; Jan Elson, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Public Housing,
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Topic:
CHA's Plan for Transformation - How the Redevelopment Process
Really Works
February
15, 2007
Great Cities Institute Panel
Discussion
THE LAWNDALE
HEALTH PROMOTION PROJECT: ENGAGING COMMUNITIES IN CREATING A
HEALTHIER COMMUNITY IN CHICAGO'S NORTH AND SOUTH LAWNDALE
3 p.m. in GCI
Conference Room
Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
The Lawndale
Health Promotion Project (LHPP) is a Center for Disease Control
funded REACH 2010 initiative addressing health disparities in
diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The project focuses on the
North and South Lawndale communities, which are predominantly
African-American or Latino. Guided by a diverse community coalition,
a team of researchers from two universities oversee the multi-method
evaluation of a community wide intervention designed to make
change at the community, health systems and individual level.
Working in partnership with the community coalition, the LHPP
evaluation team focuses on increasing the community's capacity
to translate research findings into practical applications to
improve the health of community residents. Through qualitative
and quantitative methods, the evaluation has highlighted differences
in the efficacy of a similar intervention used in these two distinct
racioethnic communities. Risk assessments for diabetes and cardiovascular
disease were conducted for over 5000 community residents. Over
500 participants in a community level intervention were interviewed
at three intervals over a 12 month period. The results of the
risk assessments and interviews will be discussed in context
with changes introduced by the community organizations participating
in the project. This panel discussion will include a summary
of lessons learned in engaging community participation in a health
promotion intervention and in evaluation research about the topic.
Panelists:
Cynthia Barnes-Boyd, Director, UIC Neighborhoods Initiatives, Great Cities
Institute, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Assistant Dean,
Community Health Initiatives, UIC College of Nursing
Berenice Tow,
REACH 2010 Project Director, City of Chicago, Department of Public
Health
Michael Quinn,
Education Specialist in Research, Department of Medicine, Diabetes
Research and Training Center, University of Chicago
RSVP preferred: (312) 996-8700
We look forward
to seeing you.
To request disability accommodations please contact Denita Johnson (312) 996-7871.
February
7, 2007
UPP/GCI/IRRPP International
Forum!!
5 p.m.
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Joel Outtes, Professor and Head, Group for the Study of Society and Territory,
Universidade Fedaeral do Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Topic:
Cities Representing the Nation: Planning and Nation Building
in Brazil in a Comparative Perspective (1855-2006)
Cosponsored
by UIC:
- Urban Planning
and Policy Program
- Latin American
and Latino Studies Department
- UIC Neighborhoods
Initiative and GCI Community and Economic Development Cluster
- Institute
for Research on Race and Public Policy
Joel Outtes
is a Historian, Geographer, Planner and Architect with two Master
degrees (Urban and Regional Development, Federal University of
Pernambuco, Brazil & Urban Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and a Doctorate from the University
of Oxford. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, where
he is the head of GEST - The Group for the Study of Society and
Territory; a Visiting Faculty at Eastern Illinois University
and a PhD tutor at Warnborough University in the United Kingdom.
This lecture
will discuss the genesis of a discourse on urbanismo (city pplanning)
in Brazil and Argentina between 1894-1945 using the ideas of
Michael Focault on discipline and his concept of bio-power. The
demographic pattern of the major cities in both countries from
1890 onwards and the renewals of the centers of these cities
are also discussed. The research takes a look at the use of planning
as an element of nation building and ideas defining eugenics
(race betterment) as an important aspect of city planning.
Other sections
are dedicated to the plans proposed for the same cities in the
1920s and to urban representation, such as ideas about social
reform, the role of hygiene as a point of departure in planning,
and the relationship of ideas on Taylorism (scientific management)
and the city. In addition, the paper discusses the planners opposition
to elections, when they claimed that they were the only ones
qualified to deal with urban Problems, and therefore, they should
be employed in the state apparatus. This discipline affects the
freedom of movement of human bodies, and is approached through
Foucault's concepts of bio-power and discipline.
February
7, 2007
Public Administration Lecture!!
1:30 p.m.
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Rebecca Sager, Ph.D, University of Arizona, Department of Sociology, Public
Administration Faculty Candidate February
6, 2007
UIC Great Cities Institute Seminar
Topic:
Urban Development in Southeast Asian Cities
Presenter:
Tingwei Zhang, Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, College
of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Tuesday, February
6, 2007 at 1:00 p.m.
Great Cities Institute Large Conference Room
CUPPAH Suite 400
Southeast Asia has become a critical part of the world economically,
environmentally and politically. Tingwei Zhang's research reviews urban
development history and trends in Southeast Asian cities, and identifies the
common development trajectory as well as considerable variations in the cities
through the pre-colony, colony, independence and economic restructuring periods.
The findings demonstrate a dynamic relation between global forces and urban
development efforts at the local level. Understanding local history and vernacular
context rather than copying experience from abroad is the starting point in
designing a workable public policy.
Tingwei Zhang
is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy in the UIC
Urban Planning and Policy Program, College of Urban Planning
and Public Affairs. He serves as Chair of the International Association
for China Planning (IACP) and a member of China National Planning
Expert Committee. He is also the director of the Asia and China
Research Program (ACRP) in the Great Cities Institute. His research
interest covers urban development policy and practice in Chinese
and American cites. He has published over 70 articles and three
books in China, the U.S., U.K. and France.
RSVP preferred:
312-996-8700
We look forward to seeing you.
To request disability accommodations please contact Denita Johnson Great Cities
Institute, 412 S. Peoria, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607, 312 996-7871.
February
6, 2007
Innovation + Integration: A
Summit on the Economic Impact of Linking Jobs, Housing and
Transportation Planning
With special
luncheon keynote speaker Mike Moskow, President, Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago
February 6, 2007
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Center East, Illinois Room
750 S. Halsted St.
Chicago , IL 60607
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Innovation and Integration Summit
will examine current economic development, housing and transportation policies
across the nation and explore how the region and its communities can take an
integrated approach to planning. CMAP believes that connecting planning with
community efforts is the best approach for the economic vitality of the region
as a whole. As the state legislature meets to address various transportation,
land use and environmental issues, we believe that broad stakeholder input
is fundamental. Innovative ideas and solutions for integrated planning efforts
raised during the summit will become part of CMAP's strategy for helping communities
partner more effectively.
Who should come?
Elected officials, policy advocates, transportation and land use planners,
developers, housing, labor, workforce, economic and community development practitioners.
Registration deadline is Monday, January 29. There is a $50.00 registration
fee, which includes breakfast and lunch.
For more information and to register, visit http://www.chicagoareaplanning.org/innovation
For questions, please call 312-386-8623.
This summit is in partnership with the Center for Neighborhood Technology,
Chicago Metropolis 2020, Metropolitan Planning Council, Metropolitan Mayors
Caucus, UIC's Voorhees Center, UIC's Urban Transportation Center, Chicago Rehab
Network and the Regional Transportation Authority.
January
January
30, 2007
CUPPA
Alumni Association Spring Speaker Series
The CUPPA Alumni
Association, the American Planning Association - Chicago Metro
Section, University of Illinois at Chicago and DePaul University
are pleased to host:
Views on
Urban Sprawl
Illinois Room
B, Student Center East
750 South Halsted Street
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are
$15. Advance ticket purchase is not required.
Please RSVP
to Kara Knack at kknack2@uic.edu by
January 15, 2007. Read More >
January
26, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Kheir Al-Kodmany, Associate Professor
Topic:
Dubai: A New Urban Planning Paradigm
Kheir Al-Kodmany
teaches in the area of physical planning and computer applications.
One aspect of his research agenda focuses on the planning process
around Hajj, a project he explored recently during a two-year
fellowship in Saudi Arabia. During his presence in the Middle
East he examined urban design and development in rising cities
such as Dubai.
We will discuss
the rise of Dubai, one of the most extraordinary urban transformations
in history. A decade of phenomenal growth has transformed Dubai
from an unknown Middle Eastern city to a prime international
destination for business and tourism. We will showcase some of
the city’s unprecedented developments including the man-made
Palm Islands, the Dubai Waterfront, and the world’s tallest
building. We will provide critical insight into emerging urban
design themes, cultural issues, and the role of the EEG (Emirates
Environmental Group) in ensuring sustainable development in Dubai.
Previously, Al-Kodmany worked for the company of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
in Chicago where he designed projects in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.
January
19, 2007
UIC Planners Network Lecture
6
p.m.
720 S. Dearborn (Janet Smith's home)
The Inversion
of Space and Spectacle: Chicago's Critical Mass and the Transportation
of Everyday Life
by Hannah Anderson Graver
Since the first
Daley Plaza Critical Mass bike ride in 1997, Chicago's
Critical Mass (CCM) has been facilitating a strong community of everyday cyclists.
Most participants describe an ideal city with fewer cars and more people cycling.
This ideal compliments the City of Chicago's efforts to reduce the number of
automobile trips in the city to lower congestion on city streets. Occurring
in a city with a bike friendly
mayor and relatively progressive cycling infrastructure for the city's large
size, it is becoming safer for people to ride on many Chicago streets. However,
many recreational cyclists still fear riding in traffic.
A CCM ride takes over city streets and creates safe space dominated by bicycles
for two hours a month. The ride empowers riders and the
cycling community that has emerged from the rides creates a social
network that enables many cyclists to start realizing their ideal city
through the practice of everyday, human-powered transportation.
Anderson uses
Henri Lefebvre's spatial triad to analyze how CCM serves as an
empowering, sensual experience for riders, while also challenging
the form of Chicago's urban landscape. The talk will examine
critical social theory, postmodern geography and multimedia forms
of representation to illustrate the social and virtual networks
that CCM generates to promote its politics of movement against
the spatial
hegemony of capital.
The presentation is based on Anderson's ethnographic and theoretical
research conducted between 2001 and 2003 for the Department of the
Masters Program in the Social Sciences at The University of Chicago.
Anderson is the creator of the Field Museum?s 2004 award winning website "Journey
through Calumet" (http://www.fieldmuseum.org)
and a
teacher at Whitney Young High School.
Wine, beer
and snacks will be provided. Feel free to bring something to
share.
RSVP janets@uic.edu
January
19, 2007
UPP Friday Forum!!
Noon
Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Presenter:
Jose Cerda, Formerly Chief of Policy, City of Chicago
Topic:
When Policy Meets Politics
Jose Cerda
was Chief of Policy for Mayor Daley from August, 2005 until recently.
He was hired in that position in the wake of the “Hired
Truck” scandal.
He previously
was crime policy advisor in the Clinton White House, where he
worked on anti-crime policy, including the $8 billion COPS program,
which expanded community policing and funded 100,000 additional
police officers nationwide.
Mr. Cerda also
worked on the Empowerment Zone project for the City of Chicago,
served as an aide to a Chicago-area Congressman, and as a senior
policy adviser to the Democratic Leadership Council.
A native of
Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, he was educated
at neighborhood schools, and at Harvard University, where he
earned a degree in Government in 1988.
January
17, 2007
The Institute for Environmental
Science and Policy and CUPPA International Lecture
3
p.m.
CUPPA Hall,
Room 110
Presenter
Simon McDonnell,
University College Dublin
Topic
Using Bus Rapid Transit to Reduce Urban Air Pollution
Carbon Dioxide
(CO2) abatement strategies have become a policy priority in countries
that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Despite this, research
into the use of supply side transport policies, particularly
the use of strategies to give buses priority over personal automobiles
on public roads, remains an under-researched area. It is estimated
that levels of CO2 associated with differing levels of bus priority
provision for such a scheme and using values from the European
Union Emissions Trading Scheme, place monetary values on these
mitigation policies. The scenarios we develop mirror the factual
(with policy) and counterfactual (without policy) before testing
some variations.
Simon McDonnell
is nearing the completion of a Ph.D. in Economics from University
College Dublin. Specific research interests include the use of
bus rapid transit and bus priority measures as a transport and
environmental policy tool. He is currently an Irish Research
Council of Humanities and Social Sciences (Government of Ireland)
scholar.
For additional
information contact Maggie Jameson at 312-996-1081 or maggiej@uic.edu.
January
10, 2007
Public Administration Open House
6:00-7:30 p.m.
CUPPA Hall, Room 110
UIC's MPA program
is the only one in the Chicago area accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
We are ranked 6th in city management and 21st in financial management
nationally. Here at UIC we offer an excellent education with
limited class sizes at state tuition prices and at times that
are convenient for working professionals.
Additional information on our program (including the Ph.D. as
well as the MPA degree) is available at our web site at http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/pa.
RSVP appreciated
but not necessary. (312.413.3181 or gabbyliz@uic.edu)
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