# Stern's Urbanization Project Hosts the Brown Bag Discussion Series

**Time:** Noon – 1pm
**Location:** NYU Stern, 44 West 4th Street, Rm. 7-191, KMC

NYU Stern's Urbanization Project will host industry professionals and faculty that will participate in the Brown Bag Discussion series on the following dates:

February 4 | Urban Edges: Borders and Boundaries | [Richard Sennett](http://www.richardsennett.com/site/SENN/Templates/Home.aspx?pageid=1), NYU Sociology and London School of Economics Sociology

February 11 | [Rosanne Haggerty](http://cmtysolutions.org/about/staff), Community Solutions

February 25 | Learning by Working in Big Cities | [Jorge De La Roca](http://jorgedelaroca.name/), NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy

March 4 | Oligarchy and Growth Lessons from Europe’s Autonomous Cities | [David Stasavage](http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/DavidStasavage), NYU Department of Politics

March 11 | Anatomy of a Resource Boom: Effects of Oil & Gas Production on America’s Local Economies | [Hunt Allcot](https://files.nyu.edu/ha32/public/index.html), NYU Economics

March 25 | [ Ray Fisman](http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/494840/Raymond+Fisman), Columbia Business School

April 1 | [Deborah Balk](http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/spa/facultystaff/facultydirectory/bio_deborah_balk.php), Baruch School of Public Affairs

April 8 | Measuring and Interpreting Urban Land Values |[ Andrew Haughwout](http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/economists/haughwout/index.html), Federal Reserve Bank of New York

April 15 | Evidence Based Urban Policing | [ Dennis Smith](http://wagner.nyu.edu/smith), NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

April 22 | Some Issues About Urbanization in Africa | [ Robert Buckley](http://gpia.info/node/48095), New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

April 29 | Reducing Violence and Poverty Among Urban Street Youth | [Chris Blattman](http://chrisblattman.com/#), Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Business and Policy Leader Events

— 2/4/2013

![Street View of NYU Stern](/sites/default/files/styles/480w/public/assets/images/con_039531.jpg?itok=MC5Q0lWQ)## Upcoming Urbanization Project Events

- [Urbanization Project Events](http://urbanizationproject.org/events/)