Columbia University GSAPP Lectures in Planning Series

Tuesday, November 14th at 1:15 pm in Avery 114 for the next lecture of our fall semester series:

Natalie Moore, the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR–member station to discuss her recent book

THE SOUTH SIDE: A portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.

About Natalie Moore

Natalie Y. Moore is the South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR–member station. Before joining WBEZ, she covered Detroit’s City Council for Detroit News. She worked as an education reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and as a reporter for the Associated Press in Jerusalem. Her work has been published in Essence, Black Enterprise, the Chicago Reporter, In These Times, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Chicago

About the Lecture

In THE SOUTH SIDE, Moore provides a contemporary snapshot of a fundamental issue facing her native city today: segregation on the South Side.

While mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have touted Chicago as a “world-class city,” it remains one of the most segregated cities in America. And while it would be easy to think of a city with a billion-dollar park, Michelin-rated restaurants, waterfront views, world-class shopping, and a thriving theater scene as a model for other metropolitan areas, underneath the shiny façade lurks the horrible reality of deeply-rooted and destructive racial segregation.

Throughout THE SOUTH SIDE, Moore shows that race—not class—determines the policies that perpetuate the city’s injustices. Shining a bright light on Chicago’s housing policies, its segregated schools (and lack of political will to integrate Chicago Public Schools), institutionalized practices that leave predominantly black neighborhoods vulnerable to crime and bad banking policies, Moore takes readers inside a system that keeps a segment of the city’s population from having a chance at the American Dream.

In THE SOUTH SIDE, Moore uses her skills as a conscientious reporter to showcase the lives of these those living in these underserved communities. Through intimate stories and investigative research, THE SOUTH SIDE highlights the impact of Chicago’s historic segregation – and the ongoing policies that keep the system intact.

LiPS is free and open to all. Refreshments will be provided.

Please find the entire fall 2017 LiPS schedule attached.

See you this Tuesday, November 14th!

Columbia University GSAPP Lectures in Planning Series LIPS is the annual lecture series dedicated to contemporary issues of urban planning, urban studies,

The Fall 2017 LiPS schedule is out. We hope you can attend!

New series of great speakers for the new year!
GSAPP Spring 2017 Lectures in Planning Series (LIPS)

Dr. Susan Saegert, CUNY Environmental Psychology, on community land trusts and the interruption of place-based inequality- November 1

from this week's LIPS on Oct 11- Brian Farkas, Detroit Building Authority and Cassie Fennell, Columbia Anthropology in dialogue on Detroit vacant building demolition program and land banking

On Oct 4 Professor Tajbakhsh, Visiting Professor of Urban Planning here at GSAPP, discussed the newly created municipal councils in Iran and the scope of local democracy's impacts on city planning and local citizenship.

Annette Kim, Spatial Analysis Lab, University of Southern California

Next week: University of Southern California's Annette Kim

The first GSAPP Lecture in Planning is here! Please join us on Tuesday, September 6 at 1pm in Avery 114 (in the basement of Avery Hall next to Brownie's Cafe) for a lecture by Dr. Susan Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The title of Dr. Fainstein's lecture is Diversity and Planning.

Welcome Back! The Fall 2016 LIPS schedule is here and we're very excited to kick off another semester of new lectures on contemporary topics in urban planning! Tuesday's at 1pm in Avery Hall Rm. 114. Always free and open to all- the LIPS Organizing Committee