Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

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Check out the packed Spring '18 lecture events calendar from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Feb 6 @ 12:30 PM
Urban China Seminar Series at MIT China Future City Lab
Matthew Turner, Brown University
at Room 9-451 

Feb 12 @ 12:30 PM
Establishing Transit Oriented Development on the Ground: A Case of Implementation in China
SPURS Seminar
Jinhua Zhao, DUSP
Eric Plosky, Volpe Center, US Department of Transportation (SB/MCP ‘99)
at City Arena, 9-255

Feb 12 @ 6 PM
A Bid for Better Transit: Improving Service with Contracted Operations Reception: 5-6
Panel Discussion led by: David Bragdon, TransitCenter; Jinhua Zhao, DUSP
at City Arena, 9-255

Feb 13 @ 12:30 PM
Urban China Seminar Series at MIT China Future City Lab
Cesar Hidalgo, MIT Media Lab
at Room 9-451 

Feb 13 @ 6:30 PM
Not Built to Last: Disrupting Planning Outcomes Through Temporary Placemaking
Zofia Basista, Plateau Urbain Aurore Rapin, YES, WE CAMP
Dan Campo, The Accidental Playground
Dan D’Oca, Harvard GSD
Garnette Cadogan, DUSP
at Long Lounge, 7-429

Feb 14 @ 5 PM
Opening of “This Garden Is a Town” Exhibition as part of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project
Anne Spirn
at Keller Gallery, 7-408

Feb 20 @ 12:30 PM
Urban Infrastructure
SPURS Seminar
David Hsu, DUSP
at City Arena, 9-255

Feb 20 @ 12:30 PM
WeWork: Workplace As a Service
Organized by DesignX with the City Design & Development Forum Elizabeth Burow, Joshua Emig, Nicolas Rader
at Long Lounge, 7-429

Feb 20 @ 12:30 PM
Rashauna Johnson — Book Talk: “Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions”
at Room 9-217

Feb 21 @ 5:30 PM
DUSP Lightning Talks
at MIT Media Lab, 6th floor

Feb 22 @ 12:30 PM
Bruno Verdini — MIT Press Book Talk: “Winning Together in Transboundary Environmental Negotiations”
Environmental Policy & Planning Lunch Series
at Room 9-450

Feb 22 @ 12:30 PM
“On the Political Meanings of the Transformation of Property and Ownership in the United States” 
Housing, Community, & Economic Development Lunch Series
James DeFilippis, Rutgers University
at City Arena, 9-255

Feb 26 @ 12:30 PM
US & International Planning Education
SPURS Seminar
Rachel Wimpee, Ford Foundation
at City Arena, 9-255 

Mar 1 @ 6-9 PM
Symposium on Planning and Immigration in Post Industrial Cities
at City Arena, 9-255

Mar 5 @ 12:30 PM
Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program Research Talk
Choong Weng Wai, Imdad Hussain
at Room 9-450A

Mar 5 @ 12:30 PM
More Than Window Dressing? Stakeholders & Participants in UN Agreements on Sustainable Development
SPURS Seminar
Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania
at City Arena, 9-255

Mar 7 @ 12:30 PM
City Leaders as Disruptors: Finding Unexpected Allies and Getting Results
City Design & Development Forum
Trinity Simons, Mayors’ Institute for City Design
at Room 10-485 

Mar 7 @ 12:30 PM
Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program Research Talk
Mohammad Reza, University of California Berkeley
Fadhlin Abdullah, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
at Room 9-450A

Mar 14 @ 12:30 PM
The World Bank and NDC Partnership’s Support of the Paris Climate Agreement
Environmental Policy & Planning Lunch Series
Stephen Hammer, World Bank Group
David Hsu, DUSP at Room 9-450 

Mar 14, @ 12:30 PM
Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program Research Talk
Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, India
Abul Quasem Al-Amin, Universiti Tenaga Nasional Malaysia
Vo Van Dut, Can Tho University, Vietnam
at Room 9-450A

Mar 20 @ 12:30 PM
Urban China Seminar Series at MIT China Future City Lab
Rui Wang, Johns Hopkins University
at Room 9-451 

Apr 5 @ 11:30 AM
The Well-Tempered City
Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Rose Companies
at Room 9-345

Apr 5 @ 12:30 PM
Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
International Development Group Series
Faranak Mifaftab, University of Illinois
at City Arena, 9-255 

Apr 9 @ 12:30 PM
Netherland Land Conservation and Development Mediation
Frans Evers
at Room 9-450

Apr 10 @ 12:30 PM
Urban China Seminar Series at MIT China Future City Lab
Yue Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago
at City Arena, 9-255 

Apr 17 @ 12:30 PM
The Skyglow Project: A 4-year, 150,000 Mile Effort to Save the Night Environmental Policy & Planning Lunch Series
Harun Mehmedinovic, Gavin Heffernan, Janelle Knox-Hayes, DUSP
at City Arena, 9-255 

Apr 18 @ 12:30 PM
City Design & Development Forum
Jeffrey Shumaker, Kohn Pedersen Fox
at Room 10-485 

Apr 23 @ 12:30 PM
Edge of the Knife: Film As Catalyst for Indigenous Community Development
SPURS Seminar
Leonie Sandercock, University of British Columbia
at City Arena, 9-255

Apr 26 – 27
Symposium on African Urbanism International Development Group Series
UrbanAfrica
at City Arena, 9-255

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