Calendar Archives

NYU's Taub Urban Research Center sponsors symposia and conferences aimed at increasing our understanding of issues affecting New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area. We also try to keep people informed about events and conferences sponsored by other organizations. Here is a selection of events we've recently hosted.

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Past Events at the
Taub Urban Research Center:

2002 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum:

The Remaking of America and Immigrants: Old and New
Roger Waldinger, Ph.D.
Chairman, Sociology Department
University of California, Los Angeles
This event was held April 11, 2002
Read the paper in PDF format here.

"Cities in the Information Age" Series:

"The mobile telephone is a big part of my life:"
Mobile telephony in Norway
Richard Ling, Telenor Corporation, Norway
This event was held April 20, 2001.

Living Networked in a Wired World:
Physical Place and Cyber Place
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
This event was held March 22, 2001.

Information and the Urban Future
Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol
Matt Zook, University of California, Berkeley
Sean Gorman, Neoteric Media
Anthony Townsend, New York University
Joseph Kaye, MIT Media Lab
Yuko Aoyama, Clark University
John Carey, Greystone Communications
This event was held February 26, 2001.

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis
Rob Lang, Fannie Mae Foundation
This event was held December 13, 2000.

Telecommuting and the Future of Cities:
A Preliminary Look at White-Collar Workers
Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine Hempstead
This event was held November 8, 2000.

Internet Pricing and the History of Communications
Andrew Odlyzko, AT&T Laboratories
This event was held October 11, 2000.

Mapping the Global Internet:
Past, Present and Future
Martin Dodge, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis,
University College London
This event was held April 12, 2000.

Planning Cybercities: Integrating Telecommunications
into Urban Planning
Prof. Stephen Graham, M.I.T.
This event was held March 8, 2000.
Read the paper presented in a PDF file.

Where is the Internet? Production, Consumption and Contents of Web Information
Prof. Aharon Kellerman, University of Haifa
This event was held February 8, 2000.

Smart Growth and Sustainable Communities:
A Comparative View of Europe and America
The Urban Center at The Municipal Arts Society
457 Madison Avenue at 51st Street
This event was held April 17, 2000.

2000 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum:
The Future of Cities
Mitchell L. Moss
Director of the Taub Urban Research Center
This event was held April 10, 2000.

Hell's Kitchen Conference: Community Workshops to Reshape the Neighborhood
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
11th Avenue and 36th Street
This event was held June 11-12, 1999.

1999 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum:
Is There Still A Reason For Cities?
Paul Goldberger, Architecture Critic for The New Yorker
This event was held April 12, 1999.

1998-99 Public Issues Forum:

H. Carl McCall
New York State Comptroller
This event was held March 25, 1999.
Read the speech online.

Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Former U.S. Secretary of State
This event was held January 14, 1999.

My Rx for Public Service
C. Virginia Fields
This event was held November 18, 1998.
Read the speech online.

Third Party Politics in New York
Raymond B. Harding
Vice Chair, Liberal Party of the State of New York
This event was held October 28, 1998.
Read the speech online.

Public Service in the 'Theatre of the Absurd':
The Realities and the Myths
Harold Ickes, Former Deputy Chief of Staff
for Political Affairs and Policy to President Clinton
This event was held March 5, 1998.
Read the speech online.

Telecommunications Regulation in New York City:
A Need for Coordination
David M. Ross
This event was held March 25, 1998.
Read the speech online.

 
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