Panel: “Dialogue on Detroit: Learning from and with the Motor City”

April 4, 2014

Wolverine Room // Michigan Union


Lecture: “Mourning Mayberry: Gun Politics in an Age of Decline”Jennifer Carlson, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto

March 31, 2014 5:30PM

West Conference Room (4th Floor) // Rackham Building


Panel: “Lessons from Youngstown” – Hunter Morrison; Ian Beniston, Deputy Director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation; John Russo, Visiting Research Fellow at Virginia Tech’s Metropolitan Institute ; June Thomas and Margaret Dewar, professors of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. The event is co-sponsored by CLOSUP

March 19, 2014 4:00PM

Annenberg Auditorium // 1120 Weill Hall, Ford School of Public Policy


Lecture: “Vibrant Northeast Ohio 2040: Sustainable Regional Planning with Slow Growth”Hunter Morrison, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium

March 19, 2014 12:00PM

RM 1227 // Art & Architecture Building


Lecture: “Occupied: Matchmaking and Landscaping in Residential Detroit”Kimberley Kinder, Michigan Society Fellow in Urban & Regional Planning and in Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan

February 21, 2014 4:15PM

Anderson Room C&D // Michigan Union


Lecture: “Framing Detroit”Jamie Peck, Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia

January 31, 2014 4:15PM

Amphitheater (4th Floor) // Rackham Building


Lecture: “Beyond Corporate Abandonment: General Motors and the Politics of Metropolitan Capitalism in Flint, Michigan”Andrew Highsmith, Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio

November 15, 2013 4:15PM

West Conference Room // Rackham Building


Lecture: “Why Walls Don’t Work”Michael Dear, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley

November 5, 2013 4:00PM

RM 2104 // Art & Architecture Building


Seminar: “Thoughts on Schools of Urban Studies”Michael Dear, Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley

November 4, 2013 6:30PM

RM 2213 // Art & Architecture Building


Book Launch: “Design after Decline” Brent Ryan (MIT – Urban Studies and Planning) Lecture and Book Signing – organized and sponsored by P+ARG

February 14, 2013 6:00PM

RM 2104 // Art & Architecture Building

Brent Ryan: Design after Decline from Taubman College on Vimeo.


Lecture: “Feeding Cities: Urban Decline, Shifting Market Infrastructures, and the Rise of Food Access Inequalities”Andrew Deener, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut

October 18, 2013 4:15PM

East Conference Room // Rackham Building

Lecture Audio


Film: “Burn” – a documentary on the Detroit Fire Department. The screening is sponsored by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at the Ford School

September 25, 2013 4:00PM

Annenberg Auditorium // Weil Hall


Colloquium: “Notes for a Detroit School of Urban Studies”William K. Tabb, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Queens College and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at theGraduate Center, City University of New York

September 20, 2013 4:00PM

Kalamazoo Room // Michigan League

Lecture Audio


Lecture: “Urban Fiscal Crises and Austerity Regimes”William K. Tabb, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Queens College and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York

September 19, 2013 6:00PM

Rackham Amphitheatre