Tag Archives: Urban Studies

Video Seminars: Organizing Responses to the Pandemic

The Departments of Urban Studies and Labor Studies/CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies invites you to join us for the following video seminars to discuss some of the organizing responses to the pandemic: Tuesday, April 14, 7-9 pm: "Urban Warfare: Housing Justice Under a Global Pandemic" with Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo, former … Continue Reading ››

Event: Rights In Transit: Public Transportation & the Right to the City (3/8)

Date: Friday, March 8th, 2019 Time: 6pm-8pm Location: CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10036 RSVP HERE Is public transportation a right? Should it be? For those reliant on public transit, the answer is invariably “yes” to both. For those who lack other means of mobility, transit is … Continue Reading ››

Event: Getting Back on Track: The New York Transit Crisis (10/13)

Friday, October 13th, 2017 8:30am-11:30am Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10036 RSVP HERE This forum will explore the nature and causes of the current mass transit crisis, and will focus on solutions that will enable New York to sustain itself as a world-class city. During the course of … Continue Reading ››

Prof. Penny Lewis Releases New Book: The City is the Factory

This month marks the release of The City Is The Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age, edited by Murphy Prof. Penny Lewis and Miriam Greenberg. Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious … Continue Reading ››