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In the fall of 2008, the Department of City and Regional Planning celebrated 60 years of planning at UC Berkeley with the Community Innovation Lecture Series and two weekends of events in October and November. Events
Sponsors Third Annual Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture in Transportation
Donate/Pledge to the Wachs Lecture Fund [pdf] Friday, October 17, 2008
Susan Hanson is a Research Professor of Geography at Clark University. Before earning her Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1973), she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya (1964-66). She is an urban geographer with interests in gender and economy, transportation, local labor markets, and sustainability. Professor Hanson has been an editor of four geography journals – Urban Geography, Economic Geography, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and The Professional Geographer. She has authored or edited five books, including The Geography of Urban Transportation (2004, with Genevieve Giuliano), Geography, Gender, and the Workaday (2003), Ten Geographic Ideas that Changed the World (1997), The Geography of Urban Transportation (1995), and Gender, Work, and Space (1995, with Geraldine Pratt). Susan has served as Director of Clark’s School of Geography and as President of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). She has received numerous awards, including Lifetime Achievement Honors from the AAG, the Van Cleef Medal from the American Geographical Society for innovative work in urban geography, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2000, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Susan’s talk, “Gender and Mobility: A Feminist Geographer's Perspective,” reflects the wisdom gained over a distinguished career. She reviews the state of knowledge and practice with regard to gender and mobility, and identifies intriguing and critical gaps in this knowledge base. A sub-theme will be grappling with a core issue in both feminist and place-based research and the policy implications of such work, namely, the tension between the general and the specific. As geographers and planners, we know that "context matters" (neighborhood/city/region), yet we also want to claim that our findings have relevance beyond a particular time and place. Her talk addresses the following questions: What have we learned about gender and mobility and what significance do these understandings hold for urban scholars and practitioners? How can those evaluating urban problems constructively engage with the tension between the general and the specific? And what are the policy implications of this tension? About the Wachs Lecture
Giving to the Lectureship To sustain an annual lectureship reflecting the caliber of Professor Wachs’ contribution to transportation, we invite you to support this fundraising initiative. Donations from individual and corporate sponsors are encouraged. We encourage individual donors to contribute generously by using a multi-year pledge to maximize the impact of your contribution. Donations are tax-deductible. We are currently establishing a process for making secure online donations; meanwhile, contributors are invited to download and complete the mail-in donation/pledge form. Please make checks payable to “UCTC – Martin Wachs Lecture Fund.” Mail donations to: Martin Wachs Lecture Fund Raquel Rolnik Lecture and Reception
Participatory Planning and Urban Reform in Brazil: Raquel Rolnik is a Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. She was the Director of the Department of Planning of the city of São Paulo (1989-1992) and National Secretary for Urban Programs of the Brazilian Ministry of Cities (2003-2007) during a time of massive reform towards participatory planning processes in Brazilian cities. She is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the right to non-discrimination in this context. Allan Jacobs Lecture and Reception Friday, November 21, 2008 Curitiba, Brazil: Twenty-Five Years of Planning and Developing: Tendency is Not Destiny: Make Each Day Better Than The Last Following a first visit in 1975, Professor Jacobs continued to visit and teach, on occasion, in Curitiba, Brazil, now a much-storied city. He remained involved, at least in terms of what the city was doing, until the mid 1990s, particularly with Jaime Lerner, the three-time mayor and later governor of the state of Parana. Jacobs will talk mostly about that remarkable 25 year plus period of planning, designing, building, social programming, including successes, failures, and very particularly, the mindset of its leaders.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 Join us in the Wurster Hall lobby and courtyard (weather permitting) for a live broadcast of the Big Game on CED’s brand-new big-screen TVs. Kick-off is at 12:30 p.m., and the party starts at 11:30. This will be a great opportunity to meet up with old friends and network with other alumni. Bring a dish, snack, or drink to share. There’s plenty of space, so feel free to bring guests. Children are also welcome. RSVP details to come. |
Susan Hanson
Throughout his 35-year career at the University of California, Professor Martin Wachs embodied the highest standards for academic research, remarkable personal integrity, and a legendary commitment to students. His inspired teaching prepared hundreds of students to make substantial contributions as planning and policy professionals in local, state and federal arenas, and many doctoral students followed in his path in accomplished academic careers. In 2006, Marty's students established a lectureship to honor him upon his retirement. With a fundraising goal of $60,000, the lectureship supports an annual fall lecture in honor of his contributions to education and research in transportation planning and policy. The lecture attracts innovative and provocative thinkers to address the most pressing issues in transportation. It rotates between Berkeley and Los Angeles, the two UC campuses at which Marty taught. The inaugural lecture took place October 17, 2006, at Wurster Hall on the Berkeley campus.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Allan Jacobs taught in the Department of City and Regional Planning from 1975 to 2001 and twice served as its Chair. Presently he is a consultant in city planning and urban design. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Miami University and studied at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He received his master's degree in city planning in 1954 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he later taught. From 1954 to 1955, he was a Fulbright Scholar in City Planning at University College in London. Prior to teaching at Berkeley, Professor Jacobs worked on planning projects in the City of Pittsburgh and for the Ford Foundation in Calcutta, India, and spent eight years as Director of the San Francisco Department of City Planning. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berkeley Citation, and the Kevin Lynch Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Publications include The Boulevard Book (with Macdonald and Rofe), Great Streets, Looking at Cities, and Making City Planning Work.