Current News & Events

• URB Summer Course 2010: Service Learning in Africa. View flyer
• The 2009 Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Miami goes to Ms. Karla Turcios for her paper on “Is Gentrification Anti-Sprawl?" Ms. Turcios is graduating with Masters in Fine Arts in May of 2009. The award comes with a prize of $500. View paper
• The 2009 Award for Best Undergraduate Student Paper on Miami goes to Mr. Joseph Weitzer for his paper on “"Aquaculture and its Impact on South Florida". Mr. Weitzer is graduating in May 2009 with a BA in History. The award comes with a prize of $300. View paper
• “Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora in Miami.” Exhibition at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, until January 24, 2010. View link
• Undergraduate students join urban research projects
  in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
  This summer, Daniel Bell and Zachary Woodward will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa, and Mumbai, India. They will join the NSF-funded research project of professors Richard Grant and Jan Nijman that investigates the role of slums in the urban economy. Bell and Woodward, both Photography double-majors, are funded with REU support, a special NSF program that finances a Research Experience for Undergraduates. Their assignment is to develop a portfolio of photographs of the Dharavi and Klipspruit slums in the two cities. Some of their work will be online later this year.
• A new summer course is offered on-site in South Africa.
  See flyer for more details.

Past News & Events

• Interama: Miami and Pan-American Dream - Exhibition at the Historical Museum of South Florida. View site
• Fourth annual paper contest on MIAMI, deadline May 1. $$$$$ prizes
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• The 2008 Award for Best Student Paper on Miami goes to Ms. Iselle Delgado (Architecture) for her paper on "The American Dream and Architecture in South Florida". The Annual Award comes with a $300 prize and is juried by the Steering Committee of the Urban Studies Program.
• February 27: A Lecture by Dr. Will Graf on "Science, Policy, and Politics of Everglades Restoration." View flyer
• Spring 2009 Intersession Course in Greece View flyer
• YouTube video featuring Miami, UM, and a Chevy - 1950s. Watch video
• "Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami." The Bass Museum on Miami Beach features a new exhibition on Miami's Architecture and Urbanism, starting December 5, 2007 www.bassmuseum.org/exhibitions/exsched.html
• Waterfront Design Exhibition and Symposium, September 24-November 7
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• November 3: A public lecture by Robert C. Kloosterman on "Architecture as Cultural Industy: The Case of Rotterdam." View flyer
• October 29: Public lecture by Anko van der Woude about the colonial architecture of the Dutch Caribbean. View flyer
• The Urban Studies Speaker Series, in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the School of Architecture, presents a lecture by Sako Musterd on "Social and Ethnic Segregation in European Cities." Sako Musterd is Professor of Social and Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Thursday, February 14, 2008, 6:00 pm, Glasgow Hall, School of Architecture, University of Miami.
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• Urban Studies sponsors Symposium on Central American Gangs, February 19, 9:30 am - noon, Cosford Cinema, UM Campus.
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• The Urban Studies Speaker Series, in collaboration with the School of Architecture, presents a lecture by Saskia Sassen on "Reassembling the City." Saskia Sassen is the Helen and Robert Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Thursday, February 7, 2008, 6:00 pm, Glasgow Hall, School of Architecture, University of Miami. View flyer for more details.
• Urban Studies Minor in the News: www.as.miami.edu/magazine/fall07/News_Briefs/Urban_Understanding
• UM professors receive collaborative research grant on Mumbai and Johannesburg: Professor Richard Grant and Jan Nijman have received a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation for research on labor and economic activities in the slums of Mumbai, India, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Their's will be a comparative study of the impact of economic globalization on slum dwellers and the effects of slum removals on the urban economy. The NSF grant was made possible with a seed grant from the Urban Studies Program.