Past Events
With rapid changes in cities across the world, citizens are demanding and expecting new ways of engaging with their urban environments.
Andrew Herscher will present a fascinating talk that links the current controversy over water rights, real estate, and housing in Detroit to the deep history of how settler colonialism extracted…
The Program on Urban Studies is excited to have Clayton Hurd, Senior Program Director at Haas, in our first quarterly Discover talk! He…
A fascination for color in the 1960s led to Bombay cinema’s mobilization of thehinterland as the site for a new future.
Film Screening
The year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the publication of the landmark text Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton.
The Right to the Creative City is a series of public discussions exploring the politics of urban futures, co-organized by Andrew Herscher and Johanna Taylor.
Displacements: Architecture and Refugee
Book Launch and Panel Discussion
May 23, 2017 | 4:00 pm
The Right to the Creative City is a series of public discussions exploring the politics of urban futures, co-organized by Andrew Herscher and Johanna Taylor.
Like many cities with a long history and a dynamic future, New York is constantly preserving and dismantling itself, enshrining memory and erasing it at the same time.
Just Placemaking: Arts and Community Development Towards an Equitable City is a free public lecture series co-hosted by the Stanford Human Cities Initiative and…
The rise of tactical urbanism, parklets, and prototyping festivals has catapulted the San Francisco Bay Area as the capital of innovative public space design.
How do we listen to cities? How does the musical history of a city reveal histories of marginalization, displacement, cultural change, and community place-making?
