THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Zoning is intended to bring order and containment to the unrestrained excesses, whether they be for profit, product, or people, that cities are accused of harboring. City planners zone to sanction particular uses, such as industrial or residential, and they zone to build high and dense or preserve low and uncluttered. But in this effort to define uses and forms, those who make zoning decisions can also inhibit social cooperation, cultural abundance, and political solidarities, while generating, instead, discrimination and segregation. It is time to scrutinize the power of zoning to produce both inclusionary and exclusionary cities. The Urban Democracy Lab at New York University and LabCidade FAUUSP at Universidade de São Paulo have convened scholars, activists, and organizers from New York and São Paulo to consider the ways zoning has been applied to both cities, how it has been contested, and how more inclusive and just models of planning can be employed to insure that our urban neighborhoods thrive.
Schedule (To be updated as presenters are confirmed):
8:30-9am: Coffee & Light Breakfast
9-9:30am: Welcome
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Professor, New York University, Gallatin; Director, Urban Democracy Lab
9:30-11am: Panel One, Zoning as Planning?
Tom Angotti, Professor Emeritus, Urban Planning and Policy, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Paula Freire Santoro, Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Observatory of Evictions at LabCidade FAUUSP
Débora Ungaretti, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo; former staff member in Land Use and Property Management Departments of the Municipal Secretariat of Urban Development, São Paulo City Hall
Bridget Fisher, Associate Director, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) at The New School
11:15am-12:45pm: Panel Two, Contesting Rezoning
Cheryl Pahaham, Co-Chair, Inwood Legal Action
Isadora Marchi de Almeida, Masters Candidate, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo
Yesmin Vega, Senior Program Manager, Community Development, Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco)
Alejandro Velasco (moderator), Associate Professor, New York University, Gallatin; Executive Editor, NACLA Report on the Americas
2-3:30pm: Panel Three, Data-Driven Advocacy
Oksana Mironova, Housing Policy Analyst, Community Service Society
Chris Walters, Rezoning Technical Assistance Coordinator, Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development
Sam Raby, mapmaker and interactive media developer, JustiFix.nyc, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Urban Displacement Project
Paula Freire Santoro, Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Observatory of Evictions at LabCidade FAUUSP
Salo Coslovsky (moderator), Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Public Policy, New York University, Wagner
3:45-5:15pm: Panel Four, Thriving Communities
Screening: “Defending Your Block: How to Stay, Fight, and Build” by Vivian Vázquez Irizarry
Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Director Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, University of Pennsylvania
Deyanira Del Rio, Co-Director, New Economy Project
Julia Steele Allen, Decade of Fire Filmmakers
Sara Duvisac (moderator), Sociology, New York University and Crown Heights Tenant Union
Keynote
6:30-8:30pm: Nabil Bonduki, Professor of Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo and leader of the São Paulo Strategic Master Plan (2002 and 2014)
RSVP
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