How do migrants shape the cities we live in? How do migrants’ presence and agency relate to pressing urban challenges, such as gentrification and lack of affordable housing? In this event, Ayşe Çağlar and Sophie Gonick reflect on these and other questions that bring the migrant experience to the center of how we understand urban …
More than ever, the city is the locus of human mobility. The majority of the world’s migrants and forcibly displaced live in urban areas. Migration continues to be a fundamental process to the development and growth of cities. The role of cities in shaping mobility and that of migrants in shaping cities have been increasingly …
Migration, Displacement and Citizenship in an Urban World Read More »
Joseph Heathcott, Professor of Urban Studies, Parsons School of Design
On October 30-31 2019, the Cities, Migration and Membership Research Collaborative will hold a two-day symposium focusing on the topic of cities and mobility. This event brings together scholars, practitioners and policy-makers from around the globe with the objective of advancing empirical and normative research to understand and meet the challenges posed by human mobility …
Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Launch Conference – 10/30-10/31 Read More »
2014 UAA Annual Conference San Antonio, Texas March 19-22, 2014 Call for Participation Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization (With a special track on Urban Issues in Central & South America and the Caribbean) Abstract/Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2013 Urban areas have grown at an unprecedented rate in the last …
