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On Saturday, April 29, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's department of urban planning will honor outgoing professor Susan S. Fainstein with a conference titled, "Searching for the Just City."
The conference will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Wood Auditorium, Room 113 Avery Hall.
Urban planning as a discipline has been strongly influenced by a belief in social change and a desire to either diminish or eradicate the manifold inequalities that characterize cities and the societies in which they are embedded. Fainstein's conception of the "Just City" encourages planners and policy makers to embrace a normative approach to urban planning that combines progressive planners' traditional focus on equity and material well-being with more recent concerns such as diversity, participation and sustainability to establish a better quality of human and urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy.
The day-long conference, which is organized by Columbia's urban planning doctoral students, will thank Fainstein for her contributions as a professor and director of the department of urban planning; honor her scholarly contributions as one of the leading urban theorists of the present day, and discuss the question of whether any vision of the "Just City" can guide future planners to make cities a better place.
Attendance is free and open to the public. For additional information, please contact Johannes Novy, jn2115@columbia.edu or visit http://www.arch.columbia.edu/.
Featured panelists will include:
Susan S. Fainstein, professor and acting director of the urban planning program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University;
Eddie Bautista, deputy director of the Mayor's Office of City Legislative Affairs and special advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Government Affairs in New York City;
Robert A. Beauregard, professor in the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School for Social Research;
Eugenie L. Birch, chair and professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania;
Diane E. Davis, professor of political sociology in the Department of Urban Studies and associate dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia;
James DeFilippis, assistant professor in the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies;
Frank Fischer, professor of politics and public policy at Rutgers University;
David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, and history at the Graduate Center of New York's City University;
Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University;
Dennis Judd, professor in the Department of Political Science and fellow in the GCI;
Kenneth J. Knuckles, president and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation;
John R. Logan, professor of sociology and director of the initiative on spatial structures in the Social Sciences at Brown University;
Setha Low, professor of environmental psychology and anthropology, and director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York;
Peter Marcuse, lawyer, urban planner and professor of urban planning at Columbia;
John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City University Graduate Center, director of its Center for Urban Research;
Elliott Sclar, director of CSUD and professor of urban planning and public affairs at Columbia University;
Phil Thompson, urban planner, political scientist and MIT professor;
Mark Wigley, dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation;
Laura Wolf-Powers, chairperson of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment in the School of Architecture at the Pratt Institute and a research fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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