“I returned from Falluja in 2006 haunted by the sense that our country had made things worse, not better, for Iraqis. Meanwhile, at home, we'd let an invasive domestic intelligence apparatus go silently to work all around us…” In “An Iraq Vet’s Journey from Wall Street to OWS,” Hunter UAP MSUA student Derek McGee chronicles his journey from Marine to financier to OWS protester. The article was published in The Nation. McGee has made a number of media appearances, most recently he was seen on Countdown with Keith Olberman.
“While Wall Street hedge-fund managers garner obscene bonuses, one in five New York residents lives in poverty” In his article,“Making Cities Matter,” recently published by The Nation, UAP Chair, Professor Joseph P. Viteritti describes how cities today have much to learn from John Lindsey’s New York. The article compares the placement of cities on the national agenda today and during Lindsey’s tenure as NYC mayor.
“GIS has a central role to play in establishing university-community partnerships…” UAP Professor Laxmi Ramasubramanian, President-Elect of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), reports the results of a survey asking how GIS is being used on college campuses in Directions Magazine. Click here for full article.
How can the planning and research goals of educators and professionals be integrated with the needs and aspirations of the communities they serve? Find out in UAP Professor Tom Angotti’s latest book, Service Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries. The book was released in December 2011. A book release event is planned for Spring 2012- please check the event page for more info.
MS in Urban Affairs application deadline extended
UAP will extend the Fall 2012 deadline for the Master's of Science in Urban Affairs graduate program through March 15. Applications can be submitted by going to Graduate Admissions on the Hunter website.
“Pedestrian-cyclist accidents are far more common occurrences than previously thought and that government and public health officials need to pay more attention to this phenomenon…”
A collaborative study between UAP’s Prof. W. Milczarski and Sociology Prof. P Tuckel exams the incidence of pedestrian-cyclist accidents. The study, the first of its kind, on behalf of the Stuart C. Gruskin Family Foundation and reveals the alarming news is that there are about 1,000 such accidents each year in New York State alone and that 55% of them occur in New York City.
UAP to Honor APA President and Hunter Urban Alumnus Mitch Silver
On Friday, September 16, 2011, Hunter Urban Affairs and Planning will celebrate the achievements of alumnus and American Planning Association President, Mitch Silver in a special ceremony at Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy. Silver will be presented with the Robert C. Weaver Award for Distinguished Service, a legacy to Dr. Weaver, first US Secretary of HUD and first African American appointed to a Cabinet level position, who was a Distinguished Professor at Hunter in Urban Affairs and Planning.
"Some people wind up in better schools than others, and it continues to break down by race and class.."
UAP Chair, Professor Joseph P. Viteritti is quoted in the NYTimes article that reviews a poll on Mayor Bloombergs record on education. The article is one of several discussions among education leaders leading up to the start of the 2011-2011 academic year. Viteritti was part of a panel earlier this month sponosored by City Hall News.
UAP Graduate Students Release Study “Second Ave Subway: Lessons Learned”
This 122-page report looks at the project, in a significant amount of detail, with a particular focus on the impact that the construction has had, and will have in the future, on the Second Avenue corridor in Manhattan. Graduate students from the MUP Program released their detailed report “Second Ave Subway: Lessons Learned.”Commissioned by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, the studio examined Second Avenue Subway's current construction and future challenges. The report recommends more robust construction coordination, communication, and community participation. It also suggests methods for mitigating displacement when the subway reaches East Harlem. Click here for more.
UAP Professor Awarded Fulbright Scholar Grant
Professor Jill Simone Gross, Director of MS in Urban Affairs, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research in the European Union during the Spring 2012 semester. Her research will examine the implications of European Union law on migrant inclusion in cities. She will travel between two national migrant hubs in Europe: London and Dublin, with shorter trips to Amsterdam to gather information on how these laws intersect with local inclusion policies to create what appears to be a type of "urban citizenship" separate and apart from more traditional notions of national citizenship.
