Research and public programs about the issues defining the Bay Area and beyond.
Academic center for research and public programs on the issues defining Silicon Valley, the Bay Area, and beyond.
02/06/2023
The Institute for Metropolitan Studies at SJSU and Veggielution present a conversation with author Anne Marie Todd about her new book The Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley. Join us on February 23rd at 5pm in the beautiful SoFA Pocket Park in Downtown San José.
08/21/2020
Please join for the first IMS-sponsored event of the fall, 'The American Road Trip Reconsidered' - an MTI research snap featuring Dan Albert and Allyson Hobbs. September 17th at 10am.
Register now at https://tinyurl.com/Mineta917
09/19/2019
This Friday is Park(ing) Day and the Global Climate Strike! Join SJSU students turning a parking space into a park (and library!) from 11am to 2pm on San Carlos near S. 4th Street in San Jose!!
01/24/2018
This semester at SJSU's Inst. for Metropolitan Studies, we're proud to be welcoming authors Derek Hyra, Japonica Brown-Saracino, and more, presenting great new books in urban studies. Watch this space!
12/06/2017
Thanks to director Betsy Kalin and SJSU Professor Marcos Pizarro for a wonderful discussion of community identity and change, what it takes to tell the story of a diverse neighborhood, and the fantastic film itself, "East L.A. Interchange," last week at SJSU's Institute for Metropolitan Studies.