Ananya Roy, "From South to North: Struggles for Land and Housing in Unequal Cities."

Ananya Roy, "From South to North: Struggles for Land and Housing in Unequal Cities."
Date
Thu October 29th 2015, 4:30 - 5:30pm
Event Sponsor
Urban Studies Program
Location
Building 200, Room 203

The Program on Urban Studies presents Ananya Roy, "From South to North: Struggles for Land and Housing in Unequal Cities."

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare at UCLA and inaugural Director of The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin.  She holds The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy.  Her book Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development, was the recipient of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award. She has also received numerous teaching awards, including Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award and “California Professor of the Year” from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.