Spring 2013 Events
Conversations on UrbanizationFormer Bogotá Mayor Enrique Peñalosa speaks with Urbanization Project Director Paul Romer
Tuesday, February 12 | KMC 1-100, Commons Lounge | 4:30-6PM
Former Toronto Mayor David Miller speaks with Urbanization Project Director Paul Romer
Thursday, March 7 | KMC 5-50, Barr-Kawamura Commons | 4:30-6PM
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Urbanization Project Brown Bag Discussion Series
All events will take place at the following time and location:
Mondays, Noon - 1pm
Room 7-191
Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth Street, New York, NY 10012
February 4 | Urban Edges: Borders and Boundaries | Richard Sennett, NYU Sociology and London School of Economics Sociology
February 11 | Collective Impact in Community Development | Rosanne Haggerty, Community Solutions
February 25 | Learning by Working in Big Cities | Jorge De La Roca, NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
March 4 | Oligarchy and Growth Lessons from Europe's Autonomous Cities | David Stasavage, NYU Department of Politics
March 11 | Anatomy of a Resource Boom: Effects of Oil & Gas Production on America’s Local Economies | Hunt Allcot, NYU Economics
March 25 | Are American Cities Still Monocentric? | Solly Angel, Urbanization Project
April 1 | The Rising Tide: New Approaches to Urban Demography in the 21st Century | Deborah Balk, Baruch School of Public Affairs
April 8 | Evidence Based Urban Policing | Dennis Smith, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
April 15 | Parallel Housing Markets: Is their Existence Necessary in Fast Growing Cities? | Alain Bertaud, Urbanization Project
April 22 | Some Issues About Urbanization in Africa | Robert Buckley, New School Graduate Program in International Affairs
April 29 | Reducing Violence and Poverty Among Urban Street Youth | Chris Blattman, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
May 6 | Measuring and Interpreting Urban Land Values | Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
May 13 | The Henry George Theorem with Uncertainty and Lump Infrastructure | Paul Romer, NYU Stern Economics and the Urbanization Project
