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Now on display:
Just Space(s) at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
September 26 – November 18, 2007
Calendar of Events
06.07.07 - Launch event celebrating the release of Critical Planning Volume 14: SPATIAL JUSTICE
Thursday, June 7th 2007
12-2pm
UCLA Public Policy Building
Westwood Campus
(#2 Sunset Bus to Hilgard and Sunset / campus parking $8)
3rd floor lounge
Food will be served; Copies of the journal will be available
RSVP by June 5: avab(at)ucla.edu
Welcome: Ava Bromberg, co-editor of Critical Planning
Discussion: Edward W. Soja, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA
Gilda Haas, Executive Director, SAJE (Strategic Actions for Just Economy)
and UCLA Urban Planning faculty
Edward W. Soja is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA. He is the author of Postmodern Geographies (1989), Thirdspace (1996), and Postmetropolis (2000) and numerous articles. His current research involves the new labor-community coalitions that have been developing in Los Angeles "seeking spatial justice," and innovative approaches to regional governance and planning in Catalonia.
Gilda Haas is Executive Director and founder of SAJE, an economic justice, community development, and popular education center that has been building economic power for working class people in Los Angeles since 1996. Haas is an initiator of the burgeoning national movement on the “Right to the City” and serves as the representative for Los Angeles. She teaches community economic development in UCLA’s Urban Planning Department.
This journal serves as a companion / catalogue for the exhibit and public
programming series: Spatial Justice at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
September 19 – November 18, 2007 co-curated by Ava Bromberg and Nicholas
Brown
12.07.06 - Participation Problems: The Center for Urban Pedagogy
Critical Planning is thrilled to announce that Damon Rich and Rosten Woo from the Center for Urban Pedagogy in NYC will present their work at UCLA's Dept. of Urban Planning December 7, part two of our ongoing Spatial Justice lecture series.
Participation Problems: The Center for Urban Pedagogy
Thursday, Dec 7 @ 6:30pm
PPB Room 2355
UCLA
New York City based non-profit Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) makes educational
projects about places and how they change. These projects bring together art
and design professionals - artist, graphic designers,
architects, urban planners - with community-based advocates and researchers
- organizers, government officials, academics, service-providers and policymakers.
CUP was formed as a loose collective in 1997, received its 501(c)3 designation
in 2002, and continues to grow as a platform for collaboration. Recent CUP
works have visualized annexation, sewage systems and development politics,
connected public housing residents, revisited urban renewal and redesigned
public school classrooms and nomadic environments.
Questions? Contact: Ava Bromberg - ava@inthefield.info
02.13.06 - Roundtable on the Privatization of the City
On Monday, February 13th Critical Planning will host a roundtable on the privatization of urban public space and services at UCLA’s Public Policy Building. The event will be an honest discussion of both the positive and negative impacts of privatization from the perspectives of various actors, such as academics, graduate students, and representatives from grassroots organizations, development firms, and policy think tanks.
During the roundtable, the moderator will ask questions regarding urban privatization (including, but not limited to, common interest developments, interstate toll lanes, the commercialization of public spaces and public housing redevelopment). Although the discussion is a closed event, the transcript will be published in the summer 2006 issue of the journal.