Past Events

Co-sponsored with the Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies, the Institute for International Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UC Berkeley. Juan Carlos Muñoz is the Secretary of Transport and Telecommunications of Chile. He has extensive experience in academia, working in research areas focusing on transport operations, public transport systems, logistics […]

Suraj Yungde, Associate Professor, Harvard University Part of the GMS Lecture Series on Racial Capitalism, 2023-2024 Reception to follow.

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Join us for the fourth event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Climate”.  Discussion will be led by Max Auffhammer (George Pardee Professor of International Sustainable Development and Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies) and Daniel Aldana Cohen (Assistant Professor, Sociology). Light refreshments will be provided

Join us for the third event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Informality”. Discussion will be led by Sai Balakrishnan (Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning) and Dan Chatman (Chair and Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning). Light refreshments will be provided

Join us for the second event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Resilience”. Discussion will be led by Stephen Collier (Professor, City & Regional Planning) and Kenichi Soga (Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering and Chancellor’s Professor). Light refreshments will be provided

Join us for the first event of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series, “Urban Housing”. Discussion will be led by Desiree Fields (Associate professor, Geography) and Carolina Reid (Associate and I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, Professor of City & Regional Planning). Light refreshments will be provided

The Cinema and the City Student Film Club presents their first Spring 2023 screening Man With a Movie Camera (1929, dir. Dziga Vertov, USSR.)*with selected shorts beforehand   The Cinema and the City is a GMS supported film club through which students can critically engage with the relationship between urbanism and film. Rather than show movies which simply happen to […]

Discussion will be led by Ross Doll, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has dramatically expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. New development programs, including “urban-rural coordination”, “new-type urbanization”, and, most recently, “rural revitalization”, […]

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