Urban Studies
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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 two…
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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 politics in the…
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Who Should Control NYC Schools?
This post was originally featured at the Gotham Center. By Stephen Brier The issue of who should control NYC’s public schools, like the poor, apparently will always be with us. These days, or at least since Michael Bloomberg’s mayoral reign, that control centers on how many years the city’s mayor will be allowed to play…
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Event: Confronting the Tragedy (4/28-29)
Dates: April 28th-29th Time: 9am-5:30pm Location: Murphy Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor REGISTER HERE The Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies, CUNY, is bringing together academics, labor leaders, activists, students, and policy makers to pose crucial questions concerning the criminal justice system and the labor movement’s place and responsibility within it. Our two-day conference,…
