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November 2017
UTC Event – Looking Back on CMAP’s GO TO 2040
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), created in 2005, unveiled the GO TO 2040 comprehensive regional plan for Northeastern Illinois in 2014. On November 2, Bob Dean, CMAP Executive Director for Planning, will share insight on GO TO 2040 and the under-development ON TO 2050, CMAP's future comprehensive plan. The presentation is part of the Urban Transportation Center's Fall 2017 Seminar Series. It will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Great Cities Institute Conference Room,…
Find out more »Shaping Urban Space in Peripheral Capitalism: Real Estate Investment in Warsaw
Developers are the primary actor shaping the space of large cities in Central and Eastern Europe. The public sector is not present as an investor and has retreated from spatial planning following the policy of progressive deregulation of the economy. As a result, social and political conflicts have sprung up around urban areas and begun to re-affect the process of shaping the space. This is particularly evident in large cities such as Warsaw, which is one of the fastest-rising real…
Find out more »Creative Funding Mechanisms: Paying for Large Infrastructure Projects
In an era of reduced involvement from government at all levels, how do planners get creative to fund major infrastructure projects? This topic will look at how recent and ongoing projects in Chicago, including the Red and Purple Modernization Project and the expansion of the Chicago Riverwalk, were funded and emerging trends of infrastructure funding. Carole Morey serves as Chief Planning Officer of the Chicago Transit Authority, the nation’s second largest transit agency, where she oversees the Service Planning ,…
Find out more »Remaking Rust Belt Cities: Universities, Nationalism and Economic Development in South Africa
Leslie Bank is a Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Fort Hare. He is the recipient of research fellowships from Fulbright, the Ford Foundation and the Oppenheimer Trust to Emory, Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He also served as a research fellow at the African Studies Centre at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His most recent book is entitled After Car Culture: Industry, Nationalism and Universities on…
Find out more »What Lurks in the Great Lakes? Pipelines, Invasive Species and Other Underwater Perils
UIC Freshwater Lab Event: “What Lurks in the Great Lakes? Pipelines, Invasive Species and Other Underwater Perils” Lecture by Dan Egan, author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes and Great Lakes Reporter at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel November 15, 4:00-6:00 PM UIC Institute for the Humanities 701 South Morgan St. Lower Level Stevenson Hall For more information, visit http://www.freshwaterlab.org/events/
Find out more »Out and About with GCI – Union Station: A 21st Century Revival
Join Great Cities Institute (GCI) and the Urban Planning and Policy Student Association (UPPSA) for an Amtrak tour of Union Station. This tour will highlight the history and redevelopment of the facility, as well as its significance in transportation and economic development planning for the Chicago region. Please RSVP below. Tour details and starting location will be emailed to attendees prior to the event. Loading...
Find out more »February 2018
Parks, Plans, and Prejudice: The Environmental Politics of Outdoor Recreation
Beginning with a discussion of the origins and importance of the 1909 Plan of Chicago in terms of open space, Professor Platt will focus on the politics of environmental injustice in the spatial distribution of city parks (and park facilities, maintenance, staffing, etc) on the basis of race, ethnicity and class. This talk will cover the period from the World's Fair of 1893 and the simultaneous Great Migration to Mayor Richard M. Daley's Millennium Park. This approach will allow Professor Platt…
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