Urban Studies
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Teachout’s Teach Out
By Joshua Freeman This election season has seen an unusually open battle regarding political strategy among New York unionists and progressives. At stake is a crucial issue: how to balance the demands of building a movement that can fundamentally change a political and economic system that fails to serve most Americans against the existing political arrangements that benefit particular…
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Community Organizing with WE ACT
Last fall, the Murphy Institute launched a B.A. in Urban and Community Studies. The program focuses on public policy, the delivery of services, and improving the quality of life for communities and working-class populations. Students in the program use methods and perspectives from sociology, economics, political science, history, and anthropology to analyze the conditions of…
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Welcome Fall 2014 JSMI Students!
We are excited to welcome incoming Fall 2014 students to The Murphy Institute this week! Below is a reflection from Palma Dellaporta, a PSC member and a registrar at Brooklyn College, who attended the Urban Studies MA orientation last Saturday. [The Urban Studies MA Orientation this past Saturday] was a comprehensive event that not only left me feeling…
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Cities Are Embracing the Worst Idea to Come Out of Ferguson
This article was originally posted in Quartz. By Basil Smikle Jr. Earlier this week, Missouri governor Jay Nixon ended the curfew imposed on the community of Ferguson over the weekend. Residents had been required to be indoors between midnight and 5 am. It’s not surprising but it’s one of many moves authorities got wrong in…
