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Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue New York, NY
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Wednesday, October 3, 6:30pm — 8:30pm
What are the political, social, and economic forces shaping the future of housing in New York City and globally? How do we negotiate the ideals of development and community preservation, between maintaining affordability and attracting a larger tax base, and between the free market and government intervention? Economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City, joins sociologist Miriam Greenberg for a spirited exchange of ideas — moderated by WNYC reporter Matt Katz.
Exhibition viewing of the Museum’s Future City Lab to follow.
This is the opening event in our new series, Housing Tomorrow’s City, which explores the challenges and opportunities presented in the Museum’s Future City Lab, the interactive third gallery in the New York at Its Core exhibition. To view all of the programs in the series, click here.
The Urban Democracy Lab is a Series Affiliate for this program. As such, our community may use the code HOUSING1 to purchase tickets at the Museum Member rate of $15.
About the Speakers:
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and his work has since focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. Glaeser’s books include Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium (Oxford University Press, 2008), Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008), and Triumph of the City (Penguin Press, 2011).
Miriam Greenberg is a professor of sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World (Routledge, 2008) and Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Oxford, 2014) and co-edited The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age (Cornell, 2017). Since 2013, she has been directing the Critical Sustainabilities project and, since 2015, she has been co-organizing No Place Like Home, a project on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County.
Matt Katz (moderator) reports on air at WNYC about immigration, refugees, and national security. Katz formerly covered New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for more than five years. In 2015, he and a team from WNYC won a Peabody Award for their coverage of Christie and the Bridgegate scandal.
$25 for Adults | $20 for Students, Seniors, and Educators (with ID) | $15 for Museum Members
Includes Museum admission.
Members: To receive your discount, click on the “Buy Tickets” button above, then sign in to your account on the ticketing page.
Groups of 10 or more get discounts; contact us at programs@mcny.org or 917.492.3395.
Accessibility: Assistive listening devices are available and our auditorium wheelchair lift can accommodate manual and motorized wheelchairs (max. capacity 500 lbs). Please contact the Museum at 917.492.3333 or info@mcny.org with any questions.
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Wednesday, April 12, 4:00pm — 6:30pm
A talk with former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff
How did the Brazilian government of President Dilma Rousseff reconcile its commitment to provide ‘social and welfare rights’ and ‘balance the budget?’ When the country’s economy was growing at record rate, this tension between ‘social equality’ and ‘fiscal authority’ remained manageable and benefited citizens from all walks of life and across the political spectrum. However, following the 2015 economic debacle, it became exceedingly difficult for President Rousseff’s government to deliver on both. In response to this situation, politicians and citizens alike became politically factionalized, socially polarized and increasingly intolerant and uncivil in their everyday interactions, even among family members and long-time friends.
To defuse these and other socio-economic and political problems, President Rousseff’s government implemented a series of wide-ranging reforms, including trimming some of the social programs that had provided impoverished citizens (one in four) with new opportunities. During her talk, President Rousseff will discuss the challenges that her government faced, its accomplishments and limitations, some of the difficult decisions and choices that it made and how these, in turn, have alleviated some problems while at the same time generating new ones that have yet to be resolved.
Tickets are free, but registration is required. Please click here to RSVP.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, A 106
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
Co-organizers: The New School for Social Research — Janey Program in Latin American Studies, and the Urban Democracy Lab
Co-sponsors: Departments of Anthropology, Economics, History, Politics and Sociology and the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies
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Monday, November 21, 10:00am — 11:30am
The unraveling of the Left in Brazil has been as sudden as it has been surprising. For the last several years Brazil was a standard-bearer of the “pink tide,” as an example of progressive reforms under a pragmatic leftist party. And now, Brazil seems to be the prime example of how fragile those reforms may have been as the country takes a sharp right turn in terms of policy and political sentiment. The impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff ended not only a dozen years of uninterrupted Workers Party national rule in Brazil; it appears to have unleashed a process that has nearly vanquished the Left as an electoral force in the country. Leonardo Avritzer, one of Brazil’s most prominent political scientists and an an outspoken critic of Rouseff’s impeachment, will lead a discussion of Brazil’s current predicament and will forecast its future prospects.
Space for this event is limited to 30 people. Please RSVP via e-mail to urbandemos@nyu.edu to reserve your seat.
Co-sponsored by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and Urban Democracy Lab
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Tuesday, April 19, 1:30pm — 3:00pm
Daniel Hernandez, Deputy Commissioner for Neighborhood Strategies at the Department of Housing, Preservation, and Development (HPD), will provide first-hand insight into the city’s landmark housing plan created by the de Blasio administration. The plan and many of its strategies have provoked great and important public debate on ensuring equitable communities in NYC. Hernandez will be joined by Michael Ralph, Director of Metropolitan Studies at NYU.
This talk is presented in conjunction with Dr. Shatima Jones and her Spring 2016 course, “Mapping the Urban Ecology: Racial Communities, Ethnic Enclaves, and Multicultural Populations in NYC.” It is co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Social & Cultural Analysis, and the Urban Democracy Lab at NYU.
Free and open to the public, lunch provided. Please RSVP on Eventbrite here.
Our future lies in cities, and everyone agrees that our cities need to be greener and more sustainable. Most examinations of green urbanism focus on projects in urban centers, but another key aspect of urbanization is suburban development occurring outside the central city areas. In this public conversation, Roger Keil, professor of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, and Julie Sze, professor and Director of American Studies at University of California, Davis, discuss where global suburbanism and urban environmentalism intersect and help us imagine how a democratic political space can emerge from this moment of possibility.
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Presented by the Urban Democracy Lab with funding from NYU’s Global Initiative for Advanced Studies.
Co-sponsored by Global Design NYU.
The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, CA in 1966, and within only a few years over two-thirds of its members were women. Involved at every level of the organization–from running community centers to teaching in the Liberation schools to providing medical services in free Panther-sponsored clinics to leading the Party itself –women have often been treated as background figures in the organization’s work. In this public conversation, Salamishah Tillet, associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, speaks with Lynn C. French, former Black Panther, attorney, and advocate for the homeless, about the fight for gender equality within and beyond the Panthers.
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This event is part of NYU Gallatin’s Black History Month Program: Dismantling the Master’s House: The Spectrum of Black Activism. Co-sponsored with the Urban Democracy Lab
Join us for an evening with Gregor Gysi, a longtime leader of Germany’s Die Linke party, and Socialist Register co-editor Leo Panitch. They will discuss the dilemmas facing the European left, including Greece’s unbearable debt, the deepening refugee crisis, and the damage austerity has wrought on the European working class.
RSVP appreciated! Just follow this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1W899_LeZVJIzBUTYJO7VVuTnnGE7N_7F5qzBK2jKsD0/viewform
Sponsored by: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s New York office, Jacobin magazine, the Institute for Public Knowledge, and the Urban Democracy Lab
Atul Bhalla has explored the physical, historical, spiritual, and political significance of water to the urban environment and population of his city (New Delhi) through artworks that incorporate sculpture, painting, installation, video, photography, and performance. Engaged with the shared environmental and ethical concerns of a new generation, he is a conceptual artist who examines this new generation’s relationship to water and its cultural meaning. His works address issues of contemporary needs versus consequent roles of natural, cultural, or built heritage, decoding the contemporary landscape of urbanism and environmental crisis in India. Atul lives and works in Delhi, India and teaches in the Art, Design and Performing Arts Department of Shiv Nadar University.
Sponsored by: SouthAsiaNYU, The Urban Democracy Lab, Art History, NYU
December 2, 6-8pm, 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor
In Fall 2014, Gianpaolo Baiocchi’s course, “The Public Conversation on the Urban Environment,” sponsored by NYU/Gallatin, offered undergraduate students the opportunity to research communities along Manhattan’s Broadway corridor and learn what kinds of environmental concerns each community had. This information was incrementally shared with teams of artists and scientists working with lead artist Mary Miss and her City as Living Laboratory to produce public art installations that will speak directly to the environmental and science learning objectives identified by the students.
Join us for a “talk-back” during which Baiocchi’s students will formally present their research and receive feedback from the artists who will be developing the installations.
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Monday, September 22, 12:00am — 12:00am
They Can’t Represent Us!
“Occupy” in Global Context
Marking the three-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and the inauguration of the first People’s Climate March scholar-activists Marina Sitrin, Dario Azzellini, Susana Draper, and Vicente Rubio tell us where the global movements stand today and where they are going next.
A CONVERSATION / SEPTEMBER 22 / 4:30 – 6:30PM / RSVP HERE
SPONSORED BY THE URBAN DEMOCRACY LAB, NORTH AMERICAN CONGRESS ON LATIN AMERICA (NACLA), CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES (CLACS), AND THE CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM
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