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2006
April
April
21, 2006 
UPP Friday Forum!!
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.
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MB)
April
18, 2006
UIC
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar Seminar
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
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MB)
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.
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MB)
April
7, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Presenter
Robert Fairbanks, Assistant Professor, School of Social Services Administration,
University of Chicago
Topic
Recovery House: Governmentality and the Politics of Addiction in
Philadelphia's Shadow Welfare State.
About the
Presentation
Once a proud symbol of working class home-ownership, the Philadelphia row home
now stands as an icon of rust-belt deindustrialization. The presence of 30,000
abandoned row homes has cultivated visions of pathology and inexorable decline
in the Philadelphia imaginary. Yet a closer look reveals that Philadelphia’s
postindustrial landscapes are not simply harbingers of decline and decay, but
also laboratories for novel poverty survival strategies that in urgent need
of study. Among the most prominent in Philadelphia is the recovery house movement,
an unlicensed, unregulated housing strategy for impoverished drug addicts and
alcoholics located in the city’s poorest and most heavily blighted zones.
The purpose of this talk is to explain ethnographically the ways in which the
recovery house movement forges links between the survival mechanisms of poor
subjects and the projects of the declining welfare state in postindustrial
Philadelphia. Using Foucault’s notion of governmentality as a conceptual
frame, ethnographic research was conducted on the internal strategies by which
recovery houses refashion poor subjects into recovering citizens. This analysis
illustrates how recovering subjects have become able partners of, and facilitators
for, the projects of the post-welfare state. Secondarily, the paper exposes
a variegated regime of regulation, tolerance, and “managed persistence” among
city elites. This analysis elucidates the ways that recovery houses have become
situated within the fabric of Philadelphia’s social service sector as
a mechanism of the “shadow” welfare state." Taken together,
these factors help to explain the persistence and proliferation of an illegal,
unlicensed, and irregular form of housing settlement located conspicuously
in Philadelphia’s most notorious areas of spatially concentrated poverty.
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MB)
March
March
31, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Presenter
Kheir Al-Kodmany
Topic
Planning for the Hajj, the Pilgrimage to Mecca
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MB)
March
17, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Presenter
Joseph Schwieterman, Director, Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development,
DePaul University
Topic
The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago
About the Speaker
Joseph P. Schwieterman, Ph.D., is professor of public service management and
director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul
University. Schwieterman earned his M.S. in transportation from Northwestern
University and his Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago,
and is a member of the American Planning Association and Lambda Alpha International.
He is the author of several books on urban issues and works closely with
DePaul's Real Estate Center.
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MB)
March
3, 2006
UPP Friday Forum!!
Presenter
Matthew Hickey, National City
Topic
Addressing
Finance and Affordability Gaps in Single Family Housing Development:
Tools for Practitioners
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.mp3 (55.4 MB)
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