GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES
December 2024 Newsletter
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Wishing everyone a restful winter break!
GMS wishes everyone a restful winter break. We look forward to 2025.
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GMS 200, 201 will be offered in Spring
GMS is pleased to offer the two core courses for the Designated Emphasis this spring! GMS 200 / CEE254G, the gateway course for the DE, will be co-taught by Sai Balakrishnan (DCRP + GMS) and Alison Post (Political Science + GMS). GMS 201, the dissertation writing course, will be offered by Desiree Fields (Geography + GMS).
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GMS affiliated faculty and Sociology professor Loïc Wacquant has published a book. Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist.
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Jessica Trounstine, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University
December 11, 2024
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Moses Hall 119
Since the 1980s, schools in the United States have become increasingly segregated along race and class lines. Scholars understand that the underlying driver of this pattern is residential segregation along race and class lines. I propose that exclusive communities seek governmental policies that protect residential segregation (like banning multifamily homes in their neighborhood) to ensure homogeneity in schools. I use a novel dataset of more than 2 million parcels in the Bay Area of California and find that neighborhoods that were privileged in the 1940s are much more likely to have restrictive zoning today. As a result, housing types are geographically segregated in these communities. I find that the application of different development standards to different neighborhoods is strongly associated with race and class segregation across schools. Zoning segregation explains 25-34% of the total variation in race and income segregation within school districts.
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Zachary Lamb, GMS Affiliated Faculty
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Zachary Lamb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. His research examines how urban designers and planners shape the uneven burdens of climate change and adaptation in cities around the world. His new book, The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2024), written with Dr. Lawrence Vale, lays out a framework for equity-centered climate change adaptation interventions that join physical hazard risk reduction with institutional changes to ensure that residents have the power to act in the face of climate change and other threats. The book illustrates and tests the framework with 12 in-depth case studies from around the world, from public schoolyards in Paris to canal-side informal settlements in Bangkok.
Dr. Lamb's other ongoing research includes interrogating how property regimes shape climate risk and adaptation in a range of settings. Recent articles and ongoing research has focused on how ownership of manufactured home parks shapes vulnerability and adaptation in California and beyond. He is also working on a collaborative effort to build a broader framework on how property regimes shape climate adaptation. Early work from this research can be found in a recently released report on property and sea level rise adaptation on San Francisco Bay.
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