Urban Growth Seminars at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
by USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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The Urban Growth Seminars are a series of seminars sponsored by USC's Sol Price School of Public Policy to highlight current issues in urban growth and development. Each of the knowledgeable speakers in this series demonstrates the role of his or her respective field in urban society by blending academic analysis and theory with real world issues and solutions. The topics span across all the fields taught and researched at USC Price and in the past have included urban planning, real estate, the environment, politics, economics and public policy.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoBrazil Urbanization and Sao Paulo Macrometropolis Region | USC Price Urban Growth Seminar: Featuring: Diana Motta Secretary of Metropolitan Development Emplasa - Metropolitan Planning Department São Paulo State / Brasil | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoCalifornia's Urban Infill Fund - Benefits and Challenges | Stephanie Shakofsky Executive Director of the Center for Creative Land Recycling | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoNetwork Planning for Regional Sustainability | Planning today involves not just analysis, plan making or outreach. Increasingly planning is taking place almost invisibly through networks linking civic leaders, stakeholders, private sector actors, and public agencies. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoChina's Future Green Cities | Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoSystems Thinking for Smarter Cities | This talk will discuss IBM's Smarter Cities initiative, principles of Systems Thinking as applied to cities. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoLEED for Neighborhood Development - Smart Growth & New Urbanism | USC Sol Price School of Public Policy Urban Growth Seminar presented by Dimitris Klapsis, principal of STUDIOdnk. | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoLocal Governments & Climate Change: How Cities and Counties are Preparing | This seminar will provide an overview of how local governments are preparing for the future including a review of greenhouse gas emissions inventories, Climate Action Plans, Adaptation Planning and the connection to policy in California. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoPlanning for Climate Change Adaptation: The Sorsogon City (Philippines) Experience | Dr. von Einsiedel is currently Chairman and Principal Urban Planner of CONCEP Inc, a private consulting firm specializing in urban redevelopment planning and design, eco-system based area planning, and heritage conservation. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSustainability, Retrofitting, Economic Stimulus and CEQA | Mr. Lowe's seminar will present the findings "Saving the Environment, Saving the Economy: Reducing Global Warming, Energy Demand and Water Use While Creating Jobs and Generating Revenues " | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoBridging the Green Divide: The Role of Public Gardens in Promoting Sustainable Community Development | Professor Meghan Gough’s ongoing research seeks to understand the roles that public gardens are playing in sustainable community development. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoUrban Patterns and Carbon Dynamics: Emerging Hypotheses and Research Strategies | Although a shift in the patterns of urbanization might be central to face key global environmental challenges, empirical studies of the links between these patterns and carbon stocks are extremely limited. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoComplexity Must Be Beautiful! Berlin, Los Angeles and the Re-Urbanization of the Modernist City | Wolfgang Christ is a Professor for Urban Planning and Urban Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoImmigrants and the New Maturity of Los Angeles | USC SPPD 2010 Urban Growth Seminar - Dowell Myers, Professor of Urban Planning at SPPD, Director of Population Dynamics Research Group and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe Road to Better Planning: Regional Transportation and Land Use | Dr. Robert Freilich, a leading planning, development, zoning and land use litigation attorney, discusses the importance of regional scale planning in The Road to Better Planning: Regional Transportation and Land Use. | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoClimate Change in Ho Chi Minh City | A report on Climage Change planning, prevention, and adaptation in Ho Chi Minh City by Professor Eric Heikkila, Director of International Initiatives at USC's School of Policy, Planning, and Development. | 8/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoCalifornia Water: Moving Beyond Myth | California has a complex, highly interconnected, and decentralized water system. | 4/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoDensity vs Diversity | USC's Dean of Architecture Qingyun Ma talks about Density vs Diversity in Chinese cities. | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoHigh Speed Rails: The First Building Blocks of Mega Regions | High Speed Rails: the First Building Blocks of Mega Regions by Mark Pisano and Petra Todorovich | 3/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
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