SCHEDULE

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY, 1973 – 2013
40 Year Anniversary!

10 – 10.15a

Opening Remarks
Miguel Robles-Durán
Director of Graduate Program in Design and Urban Ecologies, The New School

10.15 – 10.20a

40 Years On: Today’s Students on Social Justice and the City

10.20 – 10.50a

David Harvey
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, Graduate Center CUNY

10.50 – 11a

Coffee Break

11a – 12.30p

Don Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Andy Merrifield Marxist scholar on urbanism and politics
Margit Mayer Professor at the Graduate School of North American Studies, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien and Free University Berlin
Jeanne van Heeswijk Artist and educator, The Netherlands
Miriam Greenberg Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Urban Studies Research Cluster at the University of California, Santa Cruz (Video Message)

12.30 – 1.30p

Lunch

1.30 – 3p

Nik Heynen Associate Professor of Geography, University of Georgia
Rene Gabri Artist, Organizer of 16 Beaver Group
Ayreen Anastas Artist, Organizer of 16 Beaver Group
William Morrish Professor of Design and Urban Ecologies, Parsons The New School for Design
Andrew Ross Professor in Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
Linda McDowell Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford (Video Message)

3 – 3.10p

Coffee Break

3.10 – 4.40p

William Tabb Professor Emeritus of Economics, the Graduate Center CUNY
Melissa Wright Professor of Geography and Women’s Studies, Penn State University
Sharon Zukin Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY
Neil Brenner Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (Video Message / To be Confirmed)
Teddy Cruz Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD San Diego (Video Message)

4.40 – 6.10p

Martha Rosler Artist and educator, New York
John Krinsky Associate Professor of Political Science, The City College of New York
Peter Marcuse Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University
Erik Swyngedouw Professor of Geography, Manchester University (Video Message)

6 – 6.15p

Closing Remarks
David Harvey
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, Graduate Center CUNY

PARTICIPANTS

David Harvey

is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and author of numerous books. Harvey’s contributions to critical analyses of capitalism center on the relationship between urbanization and financialization; the role of geographical thought in imperial formation; and the history, present and future of anti-capitalist struggle.

Sharon Zukin

is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Zukin is the author of books on cities, culture and consumer culture, and a researcher on urban, cultural and economic change. She received the Lynd Award for Career Achievement in urban sociology, from the American Sociological Association, and the C. Wright Mills Book Award for Landscapes of Power.

Andy Merrifield

is a Marxist scholar on urbanism and politics. Merrifield has published articles in various left-wing publications, including New Left Review and The Nation. He is a leading proponent of the idea of The Right to the City. His latest book, The Urbanization of Injustice, was edited with Erik Swyngedouw.

Don Mitchell

is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Mitchell’s focuses on the production of landscape, particularly as it relates to laborers and the working classes, as well as the production and meaning of public space, in relation to the homeless.

Margit Mayer

is Professor at the Graduate School of North American Studies,
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, and of the Free University in Berlin. Mayer focuses on social movements in the post-Neo-liberal city.

Peter Marcuse

is Professor Emeritus of urban planning at Columbia University. Marcuse has written extensively on The Right to the City and the Occupy movement. His most recent publication is titled Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space.

Ayreen Anastas

is an artist. Anastas uses text, film, video, audio and the internet to create work that focuses on legal and discursive shifts around differing notions of security and the subsequent effects on everyday life. He is a principal organizer, along with Rene Gabri, of 16 Beaver Group, a New York artist community space.

Martha Rosler

is an artist. Rosler uses video, photo-text, installation, and performance to create works that center on everyday life and the public sphere. Her themes themes include architecture and the built environment, including from housing, homelessness, and systems of transport.

Miguel Robles-Durán

is Director of the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons The New School for Design. His work as co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies, a Rotterdam-based foundation/cooperative for architecture and urbanism, focuses on the design of interventions and strategies in uneven urban developments and areas of social urban conflict and has been widely published and exhibited.

Rene Gabri

is an artist. Gabri is interested in the complex mechanisms which constitute the world around us, where he works within the relationships of cultural practice, social thought and politics. He is a principal organizer, along with Ayreen Anastas, of 16 Beaver Group, a New York artist community space.

Andrew Ross

is Professor in Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Ross is a writer for The New York Times, Artforum, The Nation, Newsweek and The Village Voice, and the author of numerous books including Bird on Fire. His work focuses on labor and the urban environment.

William Tabb

is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Tabb focuses on political economy, the history of economic thought, and Globalization. He has recently published The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time.

Erik Swyngedouw

is Professor of Geography at Manchester University. His work includes political ecology of capitalist societies, urban governance, democracy and political power, water and water resources and the dynamics of urban and regional change, and the politics of globalization. Recent books include Urbanizing Globalization, Social Power and the Urbanization of Water – Flows of Power, and In the Nature of Cities.

William Morrish

is a Professor of Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons The New School for Design. Morrish is an architect and urban designer that focuses on housing, infrastructure and ecological systems. He also works on issues of human settlement and community design with UN Habitat.

Jeanne van Heeswijk

is an artist. Van Heeswijk creates contexts for interaction in public spaces through social involvement. With her work Van Heeswijk stimulates and develops cultural production and creates new public (meeting-)spaces or remodels existing ones. She collaborates often with artists, designers, architects and governments, as well as lectures on urban renewal, participation and cultural production.

John Krinsky

is Associate Professor of Political Science at The City College of New York. Krinsky is a sociologist and urban planner that focuses on Marxism and social movements. His work involves how people learn to talk, act, and strategize around politics, with a particular focus on grassroots and labor organizing.

Nik Heynen

is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Georgia. Heynen focuses on urban political Ecology, environmental justice, food studies and social movements. He has co-edited books such as Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences and In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. Heynen’s current book project is a study of the politicization of anti-hunger programs, with focus on the Black Panthers.

Neil Brenner

is Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Brenner’s research focuses on uneven spatial development, the generalization of capitalist urbanization, and processes of state spatial restructuring. He is the author of New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, Cities for People, Not For Profits: Critical Urban Theory, and The Right to the City, co-edited with Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayer.

Melissa Wright

is Professor of Geography and Women’s Studies at Penn State University. Wright researches Mexico-U.S. border where she focuses on the emergence of an international social movement that protests violence against women. She also examines how violence in northern Mexico, along with the federal militarization of urban space, has affected public life along both sides of the border.

Tom Angotti

is Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development. Angotti is the author of New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate. He is co-editor of Progressive Planning Magazine, and Participating Editor for Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment.

Linda McDowell

is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. McDowell is an economic geographer who focuses on the connections between economic restructuring, labor market changes, as well as class and gender divisions in Great Britain. She has been at the forefront of feminist perspectives on contemporary social and economic change.

Mirriam Greenberg

is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Urban Studies Research Cluster at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Greenberg is the author of Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World. She is currently collaborating on a new book, Crisis Cities, that addresses the question of interrelated crises through an analysis of the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters.

Richard Walker

is an urban geographer and Professor Emeritus of Geography at Berkeley. Walker’s recent work focuses on the transformation of California’s countryside into a leading agrarian complex of world capitalism. Recent publications on agriculture include The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California, and The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, on the local environmental movement.

Teddy Cruz

is Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego. Cruz focuses on the border San Diego-Tijuana, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that integrates theoretical research and design production. He works with community-based nonprofit organizations (Casa Familiar) on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city.

40 Year Anniversary to Commemorate David Harvey’s Seminal Book
Social Justice and The City

NEW YORK, NY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Graduate Program in Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons The New School for Design and The Center for Place Culture and Politics announces the 40 Year Anniversary Symposium of David Harvey’s Social Justice and The City (1973 – 2013), Saturday, May 4 from 10a – 6p at The New School, 66 West 12th Street, 404.

In April 1970, an essay titled “Social Processes and Spatial Form: An Analysis of the Conceptual Problems of Urban Planning,” was published in volume 25 of the journal Papers of the Regional Science Association. For this first time, this essay constructed an unexplored critique of urban disciplines vis-á-vis capitalism. The result created a dialectical theoretical framework, and forever changed the way many urban practitioners viewed their disciplinary tools and formal training. Ultimately, this heralded an ongoing formation of radically new and unseen forms of urban practice. In 1973, this essay became the first chapter of Social Justice and the City. David Harvey’s seminal second book split the way our cities are read, and created entirely new research paths for his contemporaries and younger practitioners.

Forty years after its publication, Social Justice and the City is as relevant as when it was first conceived. As the processes of urbanization fall faster than ever at the control of the elites, an unprecedented wave of enforced spatial segregation radically alters our urban realities. Today, Social Justice and the City provokes views and directions that remain at the core of any imaginary for resistance, and an action towards the belief that socially just forms of urbanization are possible.

The 40 year commemoration of Social Justice and the City will pay tribute to the lasting work and influence of David Harvey. The day will be introduced by Harvey, who will share his views on the book and its 40 year trajectory. Harvey will then be joined by a diverse array of urban practitioners, from artists to academics and designers, whose practice has been transformed by Social Justice and the City.

Participants Include: Sharon Zukin, Don Mitchell, Andy Merrifield, Margit Mayer, Peter Marcuse, Ayreen Anastas, Martha Rosler, Miguel Robles-Durán, Rene Gabri, William Morrish, Andrew Ross, Jeanne van Heeswijk, William Tabb, John Krinsky, Teddy Cruz, Erik Swyngedouw, Nik Heynen, Neil Brenner, Melissa Wright, Tom Angotti, Linda McDowell, Miriam Greenberg, Richard Walker and others.

RSVP & Information: urban.parsons.edu & pcp.gc.cuny.edu
Media & Event Contact
Miguel Robles-Durán, Director of Graduate Program in Design and Urban Ecologies
Parsons The New School for Design, 6 East 16th Street, 726, New York, NY 10011
(212) 229 – 8970 x 4441 / twitter.com/Urban_Ecologies