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September 2017
Understanding India’s New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development: A Salient Shift?
How is India planning its diverse range of settlements, which vary from rapidly growing cities to remote villages? Have changes in the country’s polity influenced its approach to the spatial planning and development of urban and rural areas? Taking the regime change in the early 1990s as a point of departure, this book focuses on the complex nature of India’s ongoing urbanization and transformations in the interrelated, but rarely-studied-together, domains of infrastructure finance and development, local planning practice, and on-the-ground…
Find out more »2017 UIC Urban Forum – The Public Infrastructure of Work & Play
From "hard infrastructure," such as roads and bridges, dams and canals, to "soft infrastructure," like parks and town squares, public art and rails-to-trails,a city's overall infrastructure has a significant influence on daily life and links its residents, neighborhoods and businesses. The former category features key facets that drive economic development and growth, while the latter type of infrastructure serves to improve residents' quality of life. The planning of projects where people work and play, and making well-designed connections between both, is…
Find out more »The Impact of Infrastructure on Communities: Three Rail-to-Trail Projects
This semester's Real Time Chicago lecture series theme is 'Critic(al) Infra-Structures', examining the processes and procedures in the creation of new and renewed infrastructure and the impacts on communities from multiple scales and perspectives. The first lecture in the series is 'The Impact of Infrastructure on Communities: Three Rail-to-Trail Projects'. When new infrastructure is created in communities, what are the impacts on existing residents? This topic will explore the creation of three rail-to-trail projects in Chicago from initial dreaming to post-implementation community…
Find out more »October 2017
The National Park Service in your neighborhood: The Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program and community planning
In April, 2016 the National Park Service and the University of Illinois at Chicago entered into a partnership agreement to host a Park Service staff member at the Great Cities Institute. At this event, Community Planner Michael Mencarini will talk about how the Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program supports community led outdoor recreation and natural resource conservation projects and his work across the Midwest Region providing technical assistance for river access, bicycle trail development, and green space planning projects. Michael Mencarini…
Find out more »Condos, Controversy and Culture
UIC Freshwater Lab event: “Condos, Controversy and Culture” Panel Discussion on Waterfront Development in Chicago October 4, 3:00-4:30 PM UIC Latino Cultural Center East side of Lecture Center B (LCB2) on the UIC East Campus between Harrison and Taylor, Morgan and Halsted For more information, visit http://www.freshwaterlab.org/events/
Find out more »UTC Event: Illinois Tollway Planning Process
Insight into how the Illinois Tollway undertakes a large corridor plan, like the 17-mile Elgin O’Hare Western Access project, will be presented October 5 at the kick off to the Fall 2017 Seminar Series hosted by the Urban Transportation Center. Featured speaker will be Rocco Zucchero, Chief of Planning. The event, which is open to all, will be held from noon to 1 pm at the Great Cities Institute Conference Room, 4th Floor, at CUPPA Hall. https://utc.uic.edu/utc-2017-seminar-series/
Find out more »Hunger Incorporated: Why the Alliance between Corporations and Anti Hunger Groups Holds Us Back from Solving Hunger
Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and…
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