Cities Across the Globe: People and Places Across Borders Symposium: Session IV: Internally Displaced Women in Medellin, Columbia: Food Insecurity, Violence, Health and Mobility
Elizabeth L. Sweet, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
Cities Across the Globe: People and Places Across Borders Symposium: Session II: Resisting the Privatization of Public Space: Oaxaca, Mexico
Ivan Arenas, Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cities Across the Globe: People and Places Across Borders Symposium: Session I: City and the Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Central Europe
Hana Cervinkova, School of Education, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland and Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
With the Regional Transportation Agency (RTA) under fire, key transportation experts explore options for the future of RTA and regional transportation planning. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Panelists included:
Frank Beal, Executive Director, Metropolis Strategies
Randy Blankenhorn, Executive Director, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)
Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
Steve Schlickman, Executive Director, UIC Urban Transportation Center (UTC)
Peter Skosey, Executive Vice President, Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC)
And moderator:
Teresa Córdova, Director, UIC Great Cities Institute
“White House” by Tom Lohdan is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The United States released its Second Open Government National Action Plan endorsing Participatory Budgeting as one of its goals for creating a more open government.
“Participatory Budgeting: The United States will promote community-led participatory budgeting as a tool for enabling citizens to play a role in identifying, discussing, and prioritizing certain local public spending projects, and for giving citizens a voice in how taxpayer dollars are spent in their communities. This commitment will include steps by the U.S. Government to help raise awareness of the fact that participatory budgeting may be used for certain eligible Federal community development grant programs.”
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Cities Across the Globe: People and Places Across Borders Symposium: Session II: Myth to Megacity, the Urban Landscape Evolution of Mexico City
Moises Gonzales, Community and Regional Planning, University of New Mexico
The University of Illinois at Chicago is pleased to announce the 2013 UIC URBAN FORUM “Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions” People and institutions engage in the public square and the private marketplaces for the purpose of promoting commerce and growth, improving the quality of life in neighborhoods and cities, and creating institutions to promote democratic governance. These interactions are constrained and shaped by the rapidly emerging technologies and access to those technologies by individuals and institutions. Today, the capacities of institutions, communities and societies to govern collectively and ensure a sustainable and acceptable quality of life for metropolitan regions are challenged. The shape and direction of metropolitan growth and development depends on access to appropriate technology, scaled to the metropolitan region, and informed by the individual, household and community needs of the city and region. The 2013 UIC Urban Forum will debate the role of technology as a critical element in enhancing the capacity of public institutions to adjust and adapt to metropolitan regions’ emerging economic, political and social conditions. The Forum will bring together public intellectuals, stakeholders, academicians, policy analysts and citizens to examine both the enhancing and the constraining effects of technology on the capacity of local and regional governments to meet their health-care responsibilities, workforce-training and education needs, demands for promoting economic development and opportunities, and service-delivery responsibilities to their citizens. White papers–which will inform panels that will include mayors, policy officials, scholars, thought-leaders, and journalists–will be prepared by renowned scholars: • Dr. Karen Mossberger (Arizona State University) on “the role of technology in innovation and inclusion” • Dr. Jane Fountain (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) on “connecting technologies to citizenship” • Dr. Bénédicte Callan (Arizona State University) on “technology and health care” • Dr. Howard Wial (University of Illinois at Chicago) on “technology and advanced manufacturing” • Dr. Darrell West (Brookings Institution) on “workforce development and technology” Confirmed 2013 Urban Forum Board of Advisors: MarySue Barrett, President, Metropolitan Planning Council Randy Blankenhorn, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of HUD, former Mayor of San Antonio Clarence Anthony, Executive Director, National League of Cities Michael Coleman, Mayor of Columbus Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago Lee Fisher, former Lt. Governor of Ohio; CEO and President, CEOs for Cities Karen Freeman-Wilson, Mayor of Gary Bruce Katz, Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution Jeffery A. Malehorn, President and C.E.O, World Business Chicago Terry Mazany, Chicago Community Trust Toni Preckwinkle, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners More information about the 2013 Urban Forum will be available in the coming months at www.uicurbanforum.org. For questions, please call 312-413-2194 or email UICurban@uic.edu.
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Type: Panel Discussion
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: UIC Student Center East, Room 302 | 750 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Serving the six-county region of approximately 8.3 million people, the Chicago regional transportation network is the third largest system in the nation. Amid recent developments, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), the system’s governing and oversight body, is under increasing scrutiny and analysis. Questions about how the RTA will change or what (if anything) will replace the current model are commonplace in the media, electoral campaigns, and policy circles.
Managing and planning for a multi-modal transit network for a growing and complex region is no easy task.
GCI’s expert panelists discussed options for the future of regional transportation governance in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Panelists:
Frank Beal, Executive Director, Metropolis Strategies
Randy Blankenhorn, Executive Director, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)
Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
Steve Schlickman, Executive Director, UIC Urban Transportation Center (UTC)
Peter Skosey, Executive Vice President, Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC)
Moderator:
Teresa Córdova, Director, UIC Great Cities Institute
To request disability accommodations, please contact Christiana Kinder, Great Cities Institute, (312) 996-8700, christia@uic.edu.
Mike Bolton, Deputy Executive Director for Strategic Services at PACE Suburban Bus Service, speaks about the six county transit system.
Wednesday, November 20. 2013
3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Great Cities Institute
412 South Peoria Street
Suite 400, CUPPA Hall
Chicago, IL 60607
This interdisciplinary symposium on cities across the globe launches the Great Cities Institute research cluster: Dynamics of Global Mobility. Spatial planning, public space, urban landscapes, economic restructuring, displacement and mobility, everyday insurgencies, youth engagement, safety and security, and the politics of neoliberalism are just some of the topics to be discussed in a roundtable format. You are invited and welcome to attend as much or as little of what promises to be a very exciting time with scholars from both UIC and other parts of the world.
Teresa L. Córdova, Director
UIC Great Cities Institute
John-Jairo Betancur
Urban Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Tim Imeokparia
Visiting Scholar, Great Cities Institute
University of Illinois at Chicago
Lynette A. Jackson
Gender and Women’s Studies and African American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Pauline Lipman
Educational Policy Studies, College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
Patrisia Macias-Rojas
Visiting Scholar, American Bar Association &
UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
Tingwei Zhang
Urban Planning and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Session I: 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
“City and the Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Central Europe”
Hana Cervinkova
University of Lower Silesia, Poland
Reception: 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Session II: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
“Resisting The Privatization of Public Space: Oaxaca, Mexico”
Ivan Arenas
UIC Social Justice Initiative
“Myth to Megacity, the Urban Landscape Evolution of Mexico City”
Moises Gonzales
University of New Mexico
Session III: 10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
“Neoliberalism, Urban Restructuring and the Battle for Hyderabad City”
Sangeeta Kamat
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Pursuing Fairness, Prosperity and Localism
in a Superdiverse, Supercomplex, and Disassembled City”
Deborah Youdell
University of Birmingham, U.K.
Discussion I: 11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
“People and Places: Comparing Cities across the Globe”
Lunch Session: 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. (Provided)
“Citizens in the Present: Youth Engagement in the Americas”
Maria de los Angeles Torres
University of Illinois at Chicago
Session IV: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
“Internally Displaced Women in Medellin, Colombia:
Food Insecurity, Violence, Health and Mobility”
Elizabeth L. Sweet
Temple University
“Violence, Infrapolitics and Everyday Insurgencies in Peri-Urban Mumbai”
Tarini Bedi
2013-14 GCI Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
Session V: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
“Policing Precariousness in South Africa and Palestine/Israel”
Andy Clarno
2013-14 GCI Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Building a ‘World Class Heritage City’ in Jaipur, India:
Resurgent Local Planning and Civic Pride or More of the Same?”
Sanjeev Vidyarthi
University of Illinois at Chicago
Discussion II: 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
“People and Places: Comparing Cities across the Globe”
Reception: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
To request disability accommodations, please contact Christiana Kinder, Great Cities Institute, (312) 996-8700, christia@uic.edu
Video from this event can be found on the GCI YouTube channel.