The Urban Democracy Lab promotes critical, creative, just, and sustainable forms of urbanism through engaged scholarship, collaborative undergraduate and graduate coursework, creative public programming, and active publication.

Upcoming

  Cross Bronx Expressway
WHERE:
1 Washington Place room 527
New York NY, USA
WHEN:
Oct 19, 2023 | 6:30pm8:30pm
 
  Global Fellowship in Urban Practice Symposium 2023
WHEN:
Oct 26, 2023 | 5:00pm8:00pm
 
 

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  Engaged Urbanists

Engaged Urbanists is our longest-standing, core working group. It meets monthly on the third Friday of each month and is built on reviewing works-in-progress that emphasize the porousness of the walls between the academy and the “real” world, scholars and activists, teachers and learners. More →

  Social Housing

There is a growing, nationwide housing crisis. In the last few years, the discussion among housing movements has moved from a critique of gentrification, displacement, and other manifestations of that crisis to a search for an alternative vision. That vision requires creating housing whose production, distribution, and management is guided by deeply democratic principles, a...
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  Violence of Democracy: A Book Talk with Author Ruchi Chaturvedi
WHERE:
20 Cooper Square 5th floor
New York NY, USA
WHEN:
Sep 19, 2023 | 6:00pm7:30pm
 
  The Fight for Full Justice to Incarcerated Black Women in Brazil
WHERE:
53 Washington Square South
New York NY, USA
WHEN:
Sep 18, 2023 | 6:00pm7:30pm
 
  Rabble Rousers Film Screening
WHEN:
Sep 8, 2023 | 3:00pm6:00pm