Past Events

Transportation plays a major role in the worldwide supply chain. Learn more about the importance of the supply chain in our global economy during "Supply Chain Trends and Challenges," a seminar November 19 hosted by the Urban Transportation Center. Feature speaker will be John Caltagirone, Founding Director, Supply and Value Chain Center, Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University in Chicago. The event begins at noon and will be held in CUPPA Hall Room 110. Visit -- utc.uic.edu/current-utc-events/.

Sales tax revenue bonds differ from most transportation financing because the debt is paid from sales taxes and not from transportation revenues.  Learn more about this process during “CTA’s Sales Tax Bonds: An Analytical Approach,” a seminar December 3 hosted by the Urban Transportation Center. Featured speaker will be Ted Hampton, VP and Senior Credit Officer at Moody’s Investors Service. The event begins at noon and will be held in CUPPA Hall Room 110. Visit -- utc.uic.edu/current-utc-events/.

Ann Chen is a media artist and researcher based in New York. In 2014-15 she received the Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship to travel along the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline in northwestern Canada to make an multimedia documentary. In this talk, she will present work from this ongoing project and talk about participatory mapping, civic science, and collective storytelling as tools to understanding the potential and current impacts of energy infrastructure projects on communities and geographies in the North. Ann is…

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…