Join us for screening of “The Garden” — Friday, October 31, 2014

The Center for Urban Research and Education and the Digital Studies Center present a film and discussion series exploring Metropolitan and Urban issues

 

The Garden (2008) From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14 acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the U.S. Now bulldozers threaten its future.  

Discussant:  Mike Devlin, Executive Director and Nohemi Soria, USDA Community Food Access Manager from Camden Children’s Garden

 

 

Friday, October 31, 2014 – 12:00pm – 2pm

Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor, Armitage Hall
Lunch will be provided

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Next CURE seminar: Friday, September 12th, 2014

Resistance was Futile: The Case of Public Housing Elimination in Atlanta 

Deirdre A. Oakley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director
Sociology, Georgia State University

Friday, September 12, 2014
12pm – 2pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor, Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served 

photo credit: Mindy Stombler

DEIRDRE ÁINE OAKLEY, PH.D.

Dr. Oakley is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Georgia State University and the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her research, which has been widely published in both academic and applied venues, focuses primarily on how social disadvantages concerning education, housing, homelessness as well as redevelopment, are often compounded by geographic space and urban policies. Since 2008 she has been collaborating with Drs Lesley Reid, Erin Ruel (both from Georgia State University) on two complementary National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NSF– funded projects examining the impact of public housing elimination in Atlanta. Dr. Oakley has provided Congressional Testimony concerning public housing preservation and the Neighborhood Choice initiative to the Financial Services Committee. (more…)

The Challenge of Camden, The Challenge of America Conference

challenge of camden conference flyer

William Julius Wilson of Harvard University will deliver the keynote address at our forthcoming conference The Challenge of Camden, The Challenge for America.  Doug Massey of Princeton University will discuss new findings on the effects of affordable housing, 40 years after the Mount Laurel decision.

Monday, April 22, 2013, 1-5pm
Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center

For more information:

https://www.camden.rutgers.edu/challenge-camden-challenge-america

To register for the conference, please click here.

Center for Urban Research and Education (Cure) and Office of Civic Engagement Joint Seminars on Urban Issues

Lucy Vandenberg
Executive Director, PlanSmart NJ

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State Planning, Open Space Preservation, and Urban Revitalization

 Wednesday, April 17, 2013 – 12:20pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall

Lunch will be provided


Lucy I. Vandenberg joined PlanSmart NJ as its Executive Director in the Spring of 2011. She has a broad background in land use planning, community development, housing, and urban revitalization. She is a licensed professional planner. Lucy Vandenberg most recently served as Planning and Redevelopment Aide for Mayor Dana L. Redd in the City of Camden. Her focus included creating new energy-efficiency programs for the City and developing a strategy to revitalize abandoned properties.

Previous to this, Ms. Vandenberg was the Executive Director of the NJ Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) from 2003 until 2010, where she supervised a staff of 25. Ms. Vandenberg reviewed and approved municipal affordable housing plans and local land use ordinances for over 300 municipalities participating with COAH, the state agency established by the NJ Fair Housing Act of 1985 to implement the Mt. Laurel Supreme Court affordable housing decisions. Earlier in her career, she served as the Senior Policy Advisor for housing and urban revitalization in Governor James E. McGreevey’s administration.

From 1997 to 2002, Ms. Vandenberg worked in the non-profit sector, serving as the Associate Director of the Housing and Community Development Network of NJ, a statewide association of affordable housing and community development organizations working to build communities. She has a master’s degree from Rutgers University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. Ms. Vandenberg is a member of the Board of Directors of Preservation New Jersey and serves as a member of the Mercer County Open Space Preservation Board.

Please click here for the event flyer.

Center for Urban Research and Education (Cure) and Office of Civic Engagement Joint Seminars on Urban Issues

Roland Anglin, Ph.D.  

Rutgers University

“Looking to the Future: Collaboration as Innovation in People and Place Development”

 Friday, March 29, 2013 – 12:20pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall

 

Metropolitan development patterns that developed in force after World War II encouraged significant population shifts away from central cities, leaving reduced tax bases in core cities to support public services and redevelopment. Many cities and communities have found ways, however, to improve key policies and enhance both the local economy and the quality of life.  Increasingly, significant policy outcomes are the result of an innovative amalgam of efforts by federal, state, and local government, community development corporations, education reformers, juvenile justice reformers and other all working to promote evidence based solutions. This talk explore some empirical evidence to place the impact of what some have called networked governance and puts forth a guarded judgment on the meaning for urban and metropolitan development.  Click here for the event flyer.