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An equitable transit-oriented development (TOD) program is critical to the growth of metropolitan Chicago. Learn more about TOD tools and tactics developed by the Metropolitan Planning Council February 18 at a Spring 2016 Seminar Series event hosted by the Urban Transportation Center. The presentation will be led by MPC manager Yonah Freemark and is open to all. The event begins at noon and will be held in CUPPA Hall Room 110. Visit -- utc.uic.edu/current-utc-events/

The decision by President Obama in November 2015 to kill the Keystone XL pipeline project was followed a week later by new Prime Minister Trudeau's implementation of a moratorium on oil tanker traffic on British Columbia's coast, effectively killing the Northern Gateway pipeline project. The block on these two pipeline projects has left oil from the Alberta oil landlocked and with limited ways to get oil to markets. Does this mean that the environmental threat of large cross-country, cross-border pipeline…

The URBANISM ACROSS PLACES, SPACES, DISCIPLINES working group and the UIC Institute for the Humanities present Vyjayanthi Venturupalli Rao Director of Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research March 3, 2016 at 3 PM Institute for the Humanities, 701 South Morgan, Lower Level Stevenson Hall "Loophole Planning and Infrastructure Making in Contemporary Mumbai" As Mumbai prepares for its third DP, a fierce debate has broken out over the nature of development and of planning.  Galvanized by civic activists, ordinary citizens are…

March 16th, 6-8pm (Wednesday) Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Please join members of Borderland Collective in a public lecture and moderated discussion. "Northern Triangle," their most recent project and exhibition, responds to and complicates the ongoing Central American refugee crisis unfolding along the US-Mexico border. Through various constellations of archival materials, physical artifacts, contemporary artworks, and public programming, "Northern Triangle" explores the history of US interventionism in Central America, as well as…

“Big data” for transportation infrastructure development can be managed effectively through the uGRIDD geo-referencing software platform, saving time and money. Learn more March 17 at a Spring 2016 Seminar Series event hosted by the Urban Transportation Center. The presentation will be led by Zhong Chen, PE, PLS, uGRIDD Principal and is open to all. The event begins at noon and will be held in CUPPA Hall Room 110. Visit -- https://utc.uic.edu/utc-2016-seminar-series/

The URBANISM ACROSS PLACES, SPACES, DISCIPLINES working group and the UIC Institute for the Humanities present: AbdouMaliq Simone Research professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity “Does an Urban Global South Endure? Experiments with Detachment” March 28, 2016 at 3 PM Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level Stevenson Hall, 701 South Morgan Re-working notions of the “black city”, the presentation seeks to explore the terms through which an urban “Global South” might endure.…