Department of City & Regional Planning: Raymond Lifchez Symposium for Social Justice and Planning on Friday, February 28 2025

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Alison E. Post

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Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies

University of California, Berkeley

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Subject: Please RSVP [EVENT] | Department of City & Regional Planning: Raymond Lifchez Symposium for Social Justice and Planning on Friday, February 28 2025

Date: February 7, 2025 at 9:00:00 AM PST

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Hello,

The Department of City & Regional Planning is pleased to host the Raymond Lifchez Symposium for Social Justice and Planning at Bauer Wurster Hall on Friday, February 28 2025.

Speakers will include: featured DCRP Faculty, presenting their research and perspectives on pressing climate and housing related issues. There will also be a keynote talk by Lifchez Visiting Professor of Practice in Social Justice, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah.

-- Please RSVP for the Raymond Lifchez Symposium for Social Justice and Planning by no later than Friday, February 14th --

Program:

MORNING PANELS, 106 Bauer Wurster Hall

9:00 - 9:15 AM | Welcome [Light breakfast will be available beginning at 8:45am]

9:15 - 10:45 AM | Climate Adaptation Panel (Professors Stephen Collier, Zoé Hamstead, Zach Lamb)

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Housing Panel (Professors Sai Balakrishnan, Max Buchholz, Dan Chatman, Carolina Reid)

12:15 -12:20 PM | Closing Remarks

EVENING KEYNOTE TALK & RECEPTION, 106 Bauer Wurster Hall

4:15 - 4:30 PM | Welcome by CED Dean, Renee Chow and Introduction by Lifchez Visiting Professor of Practice in Social Justice, Nader Afzalan

4:30 - 5:30 PM | Keynote Talk by Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, In Conversation with Professor Charisma Acey

5:30 - 6:30 PM | Reception [Reception will be held in Room 172 Bauer Wurster Hall]

Panel Details:

CLIMATE ADAPTATION PANEL

Property Institutions, Collective Action, and Climate Adaptation

Stephen Collier, Zoé Hamstead, Zachary Lamb

This panel will explore how property institutions and practices frame adaptive agency in the face of climate change-related threats. In particular, we examine how property–understood as a complex “bundle of rights” (Ostrom)–structures differential agency while attracting resources for change in the built environment and in patterns of land use. Drawing on case studies of wildfire risk, indoor thermal insecurity, and sea-level rise, we unpack the motivations, incentives, and power relations that are structuring pathways of adaptive change.

HOUSING PANEL

Planning for the Housing Crisis

Sai Balakrishnan, Max Buchholz, Dan Chatman, Carolina Reid

This panel will feature presentations by Professors Carolina Reid, Max Buchholz, and Dan Chatman, and moderated by Sai Balakrishan, will address the question "What is an important aspect of the housing crisis—and/or planning for new housing—that you believe receives too little attention?"

Keynote Details:

Planning in (Un)Just Institutions: Reflections from Global North & South

Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, in conversation with Professor Charisma Acey

How do we pursue transformative and just planning outcomes in societies? Why do such visions sometimes seem elusive to planners? How do we enlist and build coalitions among W.E.B. Du Bois’ army of the wronged to energize and sustain such visions in an increasingly diverse and fragmented society? Professor Frimpong Boamah wrestles with some of these questions from an institutionalist lens in this keynote. In particular, putting the concept of justice into dialogue with institutionalism (accepted rules and norms of conduct) to map why justice in planning and design practices requires meaningful engagements at nested institutional levels—from the (meta)constitutional-choice level to the everyday planning (operational-choice) decisions. Grounding the conversation in empirical cases involving land ownership and use decisions, zoning, housing, and ecological restoration planning efforts in Global North and South contexts.

We hope that you will join us for this exciting event! You may read more about the teaching, advocacy and philanthropy of Professor Emeritus Raymond Lifchez here: In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Raymond Lifchez (1932–2023), pioneer of universal design.

In Community,

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