Informal City Speaker Series – Richard Sennett

Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of CooperationRichard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may […]

Informal City Speaker Series – The Informal as Praxis

Teddy Cruz obtained a Master in Design Studies at Harvard University in 1997 and established his research-based architecture practice in San Diego, California in 2000. He has been recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border. Cruz has been recognized in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work […]

Informal City Speaker Series -The Garage Sale

Margaret Crawford teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, and urban history as well as urban design and planning studios focusing on small-scale urbanity and postmodern urbanism.Her research focuses on the evolution, uses, and meanings of urban space. Her book, Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, examines the rise and […]

Informal City Speaker Series – Tending to Life and Plants in Los Angeles: Latino Immigrant Domestic Workers and Gardeners

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her primary research has focused on gender and migration, informal sector work, and religion and the immigrant rights social movement. Most of these studies focus on Mexican and Central American immigrant communities, but she has also researched Muslim American […]

Informal City Speaker Series – To Regulate or Not: Day Labor, Worker Centers, and Informality

Professor Valenzuela holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chicana/o Studies and Urban Planning. His research is primarily concerned with the issues faced by minorities and immigrants in the U.S. His work focuses on three key areas, which are interrelated: 1) immigration and labor markets, 2) poverty and inequality, and 3) immigrant settlement patterns […]

Special Guest Speaker: Ethan Elkind

Room 5391 Luskin School of Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A presentation about Metro Rail and its likely future with the passage of Measure M, which will fund a comprehensive transit network.

There goes the neighborhood.

Public Affairs Building, Luskin Commons 337 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

A teach-in on protecting data on race and affordable housing with Chancela Al-Mansour, Executive Director of the Housing Rights Center.

Conservation for Cities

Author Robert McDonald will discuss his new book. Reception, panel discussion, author Q&A, and book signing to follow.

Homelessness in Los Angeles

We will explore the issue of homelessness, and the response of local institutions, from three different perspectives: a Skid Row resident and activist, a developer of permanent supportive housing, and UCLA’s own BruinShelter. Lunch will be provided.