Institut de politiques alternatives de Montreal (IPAM) feature speaker series presents:
PETER MARCUSE
“Social Justice in the City: What is it? Who really wants it?”
Thursday , September 16, 2010
7 pm to 9pm
1515 Ste-Catherine W.
Concordia University, EV Building
Amphiteatre (EV 1.605)
Metro Guy-Concordia
About Peter Marcuse:
Peter Marcuse, a planner and lawyer, is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. His fields of research include city planning, housing, homelessness, the use of public space, the right to the city, social justice in the city, globalization, urban history, the relation between cultural activities and urban development, and most recently, solutions to the mortgage foreclosure crisis. His most recent co-edited books include Globalizing Cities: A new spatial order? (Blackwell 1999), Of States and Cities: The partioning of urban space (Oxford University Press 2002) and Searching for the Just City (Routledge 2009).
About IPAM:
IPAM is an independent organization devoted to fostering and promoting debate on urban development and democracy, using a multifaceted approach focused on civil society. Founded on September 12, 2009, the organization seeks to help create a new vision of Montréal for the next generation through a holistic, multi-scalar approach, as well as proposing strategies for achieving this new vision.
About Planners Network:
Planners Network (PN) is an association of progressive planning. Our members are professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas. We serve as a voice for social, economic, and environmental justice through planning. Website: http://www.plannersnetwork.org/ If you would like more information on PN Montreal, please email Yuseph at yusephkatiya@gmail.com
This event is co-sponsored by:
IPAM
Planners Network-Montreal
INRS-Urbanisation, Culture & Société, Canada Chair in Spatial Statistics and Public Policy
Making Mega-Projects Work for Communities
Urban Planning Association – Concordia University
Department of Geography, Planning and Environment – Concordia University
School of Urban Planning – McGill University
One comment
FYI:
Westmount Watch covered Peter Marcuse’s talk here:
http://westmountwatch.org/2010/09/peter-marcuse-on-social-justice-in-the-city/
It was a jam-packed room at Concordia University’s EV Amphitheatre. It was a very relevant talk for us in Montreal.
Andy Froncioni
http://westmountwatch.org