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Urban Studies Chair’s Message
 
Dear Urban Studies community,
 
I hope you all settled well into the Spring semester and enjoy your courses. In this message, I want to let you know about some upcoming events, share our plans for fall, provide some advice for trouble-shooting this semester, and invite alumni to participate in a survey and get involved in Urban Studies.
 
This semester, we have a number of virtual departmental events planned, so please mark your calendars and consider attending:
 
· March 25, 12:00 to 1:30 pm: Urban Studies Pre-registration Event – inviting all current urban studies students and faculty to the unveiling of our Summer and Fall 2021 Urban Studies curriculum and opportunity to meet with your advisor to discuss your academic plans. The event will also include a short presentation from one of our alumni.
 
· March 30, 5:00 to 6:00 pm: All prospective Spring 2022 or Fall 2022 Graduation Candidates (i.e. students with currently 75 credits or more) are invited to meet with me to discuss the upcoming Senior Seminar sequence and brainstorm about potential senior projects.
 
· May 11, 2:00-4:00 pm: Senior Presentations and Farewell Celebration – join us to watch our graduating seniors Alexandra, Cicely, Giulia, Maya, Vanessa, Galen, Josh, Nihil, and Ollie present their work and celebrate their accomplishments.
 
I am quite relieved to share that we are planning on reopening Campus in the Fall whereby, of course, much of it depends on the extent to which we get the pandemic under control and can ensure a safe return. While some classes, by design, will remain primarily online most urban classes have a format that allows for either onsite in-person or synchronous online learning. We will, in any case, accommodate students who for whatever reasons (health, immigration status) cannot return to campus.
 
I am also happy to announce the launch of the Urban Studies Alumni Network. To improve communication with and among program alumni and integrate alumni more purposefully into our operations, I invite any alumni to participate in a survey or to contact me directly at freiherr@newschool.edu. I am really looking forward to hearing from you and your pathways since graduation!
 
I realize that the current online format is not for everybody and that some of our students struggle, struggles that are often exacerbated by social isolation and a myriad of problems associated with the pandemic. If you are currently experiencing problems that affect your academic performance, we strongly encourage you to reach out to meChristina, or any of our urban studies faculty and we will do what we can to help.

 
Lastly, please note this information for campus spaces and remote resources: Remote computer labs and online library services are available to all students. Additional resources are available on the university website or your college remote website.

Again, I hope you are all having a successful and rewarding semester and don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions!
 
-Jürgen

Jürgen von Mahs 
Urban Studies Chair
freiherr@newschool.edu
HIGHLIGHTS
STUDENTS & ALUMNI
Giulia Andronico De Morais Salles (BA 2021) published the article "Post COVID-19: A call for the right to the Latin American city" on Global Americans on June 30, 2020. 

Ollie Dillon (BA/BFA 21) presented "New York Special District" at the 2020 Lang's Honor Symposium on April 6, 2020. (Session: "This must be the Place".)

FACULTY
A recent
Los Angeles Times article discusses part-time faculty Emily Bills' book "Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern," published in December 2020 which is a monograph on architectural photographer Wayne Thom and focuses on Late Modern architecture.

Professor of History Julia Foulkes taught "NYC in Crisis" in Fall 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing crises of racial and economic injustices. Additionally, Foulkes published "For the Love of Strangers," an essay on the impact of social distancing on NYC life in the early weeks of the pandemic. Lastly, Foulkes and Mark Larrimore published "Realizing The New School: Lessons from the Past," which includes essays on urban topics: "New York is the Place" and "Albert Mayer's Urban Village: Between The New School and India." 

Professor of Urban Policy and Health Mindy Fullilove published two books: Hannah LF Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove, "From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence," Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2020; and Mindy Thompson Fullilove, "Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All," New Village Press, New York, 2020. Fullilove also received one award: Philadelphia Center for Architecture and Design, Edmund Bacon Award for Urban Design, 2021. 

Associate Professor of Urban Studies Joseph Heathcott was awarded a three-year $275,000 grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation for a project on "Life in the Rust Archipelago: Natural and Human Ecologies After Capital Flight." In addition, Heathcott was awarded a second grant from the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (for a total of $25,000); is a visiting fellow at L'école urbaine, Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po), Paris; was invited to talks at UNAM in Mexico City, London School of Economics, Istanbul Urban Research Center, Princeton University, Oxford University, University of Antwerp, and the Royal College of Art in London; was interviewed by Alexander Sarovic for Der Spiegel on in December 2020 on "America's Rust Belt and the Rise of Trump."; and published two pieces: "Landscape Entanglements: Toward a New Descriptive Project in Spatial Theory," co-authored with Kevin Rogan, Berkeley Planning Journal 31 (2020), and "Living in the Diagram: Colonia Federal and Urban Planning in Twentieth Century Mexico City," published online in the Journal of Urbanism in May 2020. 

Associate Professor of Anthropology Rachel Heiman is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center/CUNY. She was also pictured in this New York Times article on the Open Streets program in NYC that was launched in the spring (if you view the article on a laptop, you'll see Rachel in the 2nd video of two people putting out barricades). Heiman was a volunteer for the program on Vanderbilt Avenue in her neighborhood (Prospect Heights, Brooklyn) and is currently on a committee that is planning for this year's program.

Part-time faculty Andrea Marpillero-Colomina is a New-York Historical Society, 2020-21 Robert David Lion Gardiner Fellow and an Urban Systems Lab, 2020 Faculty Fellow. Marpillero-Colomina published two pieces in December 2020 and January 2021, respectively: Lisa Servon and Andrea Marpillero-Colomina. “Toward Justice-Involved Financial Services: The Financial Challenges of Reentry, Part 1.” Filene Research Institute; and Andrea Marpillero-Colomina and Laura Castro. "More Democracy Triptych - 2 articles and an interview." Resilience.

In September 2020, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Mia White accepted the nomination to serve on the President's Provost Search Committee; joined the SPE Academic Leadership Council as University Faculty Senate Co-chair (UFS representative); was invited by the Black Student Union to serve as a faculty mentor on the TNS Black Community Semester Welcome; and along with Kevin McQueen, has served as Faculty advisor to graduate students in the Community Development Finance Lab (with a project focus on housing affordability and community land trusts). In October 2020, White was a respondent in the Vera List Center Forum 2020, Focus Theme As for Protocols and featuring presentation by Rasheedah Philips’ “Time Zone Protocols: Black Quantum Futurism”. In November 2020, White worked in collaboration with staff and faculty to form The New School Mutual Aid Collaborative, raising over $10,000 in small recurring donations, and disbursing via fiscal partner called “The Open Collective”, to over 25 vulnerable staff and faculty. White's abstract for Special Issue of Urban Geography (forthcoming 2021) “Placemaking and the Blues in Racialized, Ethnic, and Immigrant Neighborhoods” was accepted. This past December, White was nominated for the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Justice Teaching, and was a co-lead panelist/moderator in collaboration with the Faculty Center for Innovation, Collaboration and Support in “Race and Anti-Blackness in Academia and the Classroom”. This January, White's abstract for the Royal Geographical Society Annual conference: August 2021 "Geography and the Black Production of Space"; and draft for the Guggenheim + e-flux Architecture contribution on “Survivance” were accepted. In January, White was interviewed by Lang Winter Intensive course students and The New School Radio: “Brooklyn Pipeline” News Feature (related to environmental and housing justice) and joined the TNS Climate Futures Working Group, by invitation. In February 2021, for Black History Month at The New School, White led a University-wide Guided Conversation public event on “Space Traders”, by Derrick Bell. In addition, for Black History Month, White held a Deep Dive Podcast Recording with Philip L. McKenzie.
EVENTS

SAVE THE DATE: VIRTUAL COMMENCEMENT 2021

The New School's 85th Annual University Commencement will be held virtually on Friday, May 14, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. EDT.
Learn more.                

The Commencement team is looking for student speakers for the university wide commencement ceremony. Please visit here for more information on criteria and the audition process.

ONLINE | Drawing Lines: Urban Planning, Gentrification, and Accumulation by Dispossession
Monday, March 1, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. EDT
RSVP 


Samuel Stein - author of Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Verso 2019), a book that investigates what he calls “the rise of the real estate state,” or the increasingly powerful faction of government that seeks to bend public policy toward ever-rising property values - has been invited to speak about his book in a lecture that is part of the Border as Method online series.
ONLINE | Mobilizing Against Eviction Wave
Thursday, March 4, 2021, 7:30-9:00 p.m. EDT
RSVP 


Housing insecurity has been exacerbated by the economic impact of the pandemic. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers currently face the inability to pay rent, harassment from landlords, potential eviction, and homelessness. This dreadful situation has sparked protests, rent strikes, eviction defense coalitions, and campaigns calling for the cancelation of rent across the city.

This panel discussion brings together activists, organizers, and tenant leaders involved in local tenant protection efforts to share their experiences and insights on the end of the emergency protections that have sheltered New Yorkers since the outbreak of Covid-19.
Urban Green's Emerging Professionals Resume Workshop
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EDT
RSVP 

*$10 for non-members

Are you a young professional interested in taking the next step in your career? Are you unsure how to navigate your job hunt during these unprecedented times? Join Urban Green’s Emerging Professionals for the next event in our Career Development series. 

Attendees will learn how to prepare a professional resume that reflects the skills, knowledge and education that are relevant to the job they are seeking. 
Planning Futures? On Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Abolitionist Planning
Friday, March 12, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. EDT
RSVP

This one-day conference organized by Hiba Bou Akar, brings leading planning and urban scholars who are re-thinking the field of urban planning and policy from postcolonial, decolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. It asks the following two interrelated questions: What are the futures of the field of urban planning, and what futures we ought to plan for when the future that is imagined in most of the world is one of state violence, dispossession, exploitation, war and conflict, pandemics, and climate change?
URBAN OPPORTUNITIES

& RESOURCES
Urban Systems Lab Resilience Quarterly
Call for Submissions (rolling basis)

Queens County Farm Museum

Seasonal Farmers

Build it Green! NYC
Reuse Associate
Organics Recovery Coordinator
Marketing Intern

 
Questions? News you want to share?
Send us your updates, opportunities, and more: 

landors@newschool.edu
Contact:
Program Manager
Shaked Landor
landors@newschool.edu

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New York, NY 10011

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