Past Events

  GMS is pleased to co-sponsor the 2019 Martin Wachs Lecture. Now in its twelfth year, the annual Wachs Lecture draws innovative thinkers to the University of California to address today’s most pressing issues in transportation. This year, the lecture will be given by Elizabeth Deakin, a Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, […]

Please join us for drinks and appetizers at our Fall 2019 open house to learn about the GMS Designated Emphasis (DE, a PhD minor) and meet our two new core faculty members (Desiree Fields and Brandi Summers, both in Geography), as well as other faculty affiliates.  Come to learn about funding opportunities through the GMS DE and GMS research initiatives during […]

Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography. In an era of global ecological crisis, sustainable cities have become new paragons of ideal urbanism, and the idea of “green” as a good in cities is ubiquitous. This talk, which is an overview of my forthcoming book, How Green Became Good, explores the origins of this idea and […]

Please join the Latin American Cities Working Group for a talk with visiting scholar Eduardo Marques, who will discuss urban policy in São Paulo since Brazil’s re-democratization and present findings from his recent book “As políticas do urbano em São Paulo” (“The politics of the urban in São Paulo,” English-version forthcoming). São Paulo has experienced […]

Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation and the Center for Latin American Studies   Metropolitan governance is at the center of current urban debates in Colombia due the emerging interaction of multiple administrative units within landscapes of accelerated urban growth. Colombia has an administrative and political territorial organization based on subnational divisions […]

Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies   The Pearl River Delta Region and its metropolitan hubs have long engaged with the circulation of goods, people and ideas along what is now popularized as the Maritime Silk Road. Over the centuries these movements bridged continental divides. The talk focuses on the historical layers of economic […]

Co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, and the Institute of International Studies Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Water Management: Past and Future Adaptations. A 2004 publication of the IGBP (Global Change and the Earth System) postulated that the Anthropocene really began with what was called “the great acceleration” of the 1950s, based on a […]

Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Working Group (supported by the Townsend Center)   Since 2006 the Universidad de los Andes’ Housing Observatory has been developing housing quality indicators for Bogotá´s housing market. As of today, over 1,000 housing projects have been evaluated, half of […]

Organized by the Latin American Cities Working Group (student group supported by GMS) and Terra Infirma Working Group (supported by the Townsend Center)   This talk provides a brief overview of the living conditions found in conjuntos urbanos in Mexico City and the Metropolitan Area, and the social and economic problems that they engender. These housing developments represent […]