Podcast appearances and mentions of urban studies program

(The Center Square) – According to a professor who has studied public corruption, it might be a good thing that prosecutors are seeking $3.14 million in forfeiture proceeds from convicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Connie Mixon, professor of political science and director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University, said convictions and prison sentences have not kept many of the state's elected officials from committing crimes up to this point. “We keep having these guilty corruption cases over and over and over again, but corruption persists,” Mixon told The Center Square.

Kamala Harris will give her speech at the DNC this Thursday. What are voters looking to hear from her? So far we're receiving a lot of words of inspiration versus plans and goals for her presidency. Reset speaks with Connie Mixon, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University to discuss, and also reflect on the DNC thus far. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

Dr. Constance Mixon,  Professor of Political Science and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University, joins Karen to talk about today being the 103rd anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, and to discuss voting trends for female voters.  Later on, Dr. Mixon discusses former Mayor Lori […]

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk released her annual report Wednesday. We discuss some of the highlights like, highway projects, auto insurance and more! GUEST: Peter Tabuns, Interim Leader of the Ontario NDP and MPP for Toronto-Danforth -  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that while he's "not looking for a fight" with Alberta, the federal government is not taking anything off the table when it comes to how it may respond to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's new 'sovereignty act.' GUEST: Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - Few events capture the attention of the globe like the Men's FIFA World Cup — in 2018, the event boasted a viewership of 3.5 billion people. Yet, despite the enormous popularity of the World Cup, host cities and countries invsriably lose money on the event itself, with FIFA capturing most of the profits despite its non-profit status. GUEST: David Roberts, Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Toronto and an Associate Professor with the University of Toronto

John Howell is joined by Dr. Connie Mixon, Professor of Political Science & Director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University. Do political debates still matter in 2022? Dr. Mixon gives her thoughts on the efficacy of debates to gain voter support, the risk of debating, and how these events can turn into spectacles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Howell is joined by Dr. Connie Mixon, Professor of Political Science & Director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University. Do political debates still matter in 2022? Dr. Mixon gives her thoughts on the efficacy of debates to gain voter support, the risk of debating, and how these events can turn into spectacles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With a statewide election just over two months away, candidates are in full-on campaign mode. Reset takes a look at campaign ads and political messaging with Connie Mixon, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst University, and Delmarie Cobb, a political strategist.

Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI), is a Boston-based “artistic research and development outfit” that operates in response to social justice and its literal and figurative resonations in public space.Founded by Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine in 2006, DS4SI invites activists, artists, academics, designers, dreamers, tricksters, organizations, and foundations to respond to critical and urgent social problems in a light and playful manner. Through these encounters, DS4SI questions the impacts of change in social relationships that may affect everyday life and intervenes in the ways of practicing it. In their words, they are “dedicated to changing how social justice is imagined, developed and deployed in the U.S.A”. https://www.ds4si.org/#test-sectionWritten by DS4SI, IDEAS ARRANGEMENTS EFFECTS could be considered a roadmap for using social interventions to invite the larger public into imagining and creating a more just and vibrant world. https://www.ds4si.org/bookshop/ideas-arrangements-effects-systems-design-and-social-justice-paperback-bookSUMMITT undertakes the role of executive dog within the team of DS4SI. https://www.ds4si.org/people/2021/3/1/summitt-executive-dogInspired by the family kitchen as a gathering place, the Public Kitchen invited Upham's Corner and Dudley Street residents to feast, learn, share, imagine, unite and claim public space. https://www.ds4si.org/creativity-labs//public-kitchenAlongside various other academic positions, Ceasar McDowell is a Professor of Civic Design at MIT. He teaches civic and community engagement and the use of social technology to enhance both.The Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at MIT supports the Department of Urban Studies Program by bringing together the best thinking in planning and information technology with the learned experience of community practitioners. https://dusp.mit.edu/programs/overviewTrickster Makes This World is a book by Lewis Hyde. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56450.Trickster_Makes_This_WorldRazorfish is one of the world's largest interactive agencies. Created by David Walsh, MONA is a museum in Hobart, Tasmania. https://mona.net.au/museum/aboutInitiated by DS4SI, Black Citizenship Project engaged artists from the Boston area and beyond to provide a public, artistic response to police-sanctioned violence against Black bodies and Black communities. https://www.ds4si.org/interventions/2016/7/25/black-citizenship-project#:~:text=Black%20Citizenship%20Project%20engaged%20artists,Black%20bodies%20and%20Black%20communities.Dating back to 2010, The Church Street Partners' Gazette by Can Altay was an exhibition and publication that took place in Showroom, London. https://www.theshowroom.org/projects/can-altay-the-church-street-partners-gazetteMÇPS was a work by Can Altay realized in 2017. It was a walk-in jamming/recording studio that popped up in the artist-run space İMÇ 5533, İstanbul.Lagoon is a novel by Nnedi Okorafor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon_(novel)Sun Ra is a god who walked on earth and made music. https://splice.com/blog/who-is-sun-ra/Ezra Collective is a band of extremely skilled, visionary jazz musicians. http://ezracollective.com/Bringing together residents, artists, activists, and passers-by, inPUBLIC highlights the importance of “public-making”—the collective creation of opportunities for interaction, laughter, dialogue, learning, and surprise. https://www.ds4si.org/interventions/inpublicSocial Emergency Response Centers are temporary, emergent, and creative spaces co-led by activists and artists. They pop up in response to a new attack on a population or to a long-standing injustice. Check DS4SI's detailed manual to learn more or start one in your city! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53c7166ee4b0e7db2be69480/t/5914a3dd579fb3c20cf4ab9a/1494524919092/DS4SI-SERC-Manual.pdfFerguson riots in Ferguson, Missouri, involved protests and riots which began on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson.This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society.This episode was recorded on Zoom on March 15th, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses.

On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani talks with Pascale Joassart-Marcelli about her new book The $16 Taco. As a Professor of Geography and Director of Urban Studies Program at San Diego State University, Pascale's research focuses on urban poverty and social justice. The $16 Taco examines the relationship between food and gentrification, how food can transform neighborhoods, and its role in both emplace and displace immigrants and BIPOC communities in cities across the United States. While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.  

Todays guests Elmhurst University Professor Connie Mixon -(Professor, political science; Director, Urban Studies Program; Acting chair, Department of sociology and criminal justice) - politics 2021 - Inauguration Day in 2 weeks. IL State Rep (26th District) Kam Buckner - new laws in Illinois taking effect in 2021. Cook County Commissioner Dr. Dennis Deer (2nd District) - overseeing vaccines in Cook Co. Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore (4th District) - Juneteenth holiday.

On today's episode, investigate journalist Eileen Markey discusses journalist Wayne Barrett and the history of political corruption. Eileen Markey is an investigative journalist who specializes in urban policy, social movements, memory and the role of religion in the public square. She believes in journalism as a public service and a free press as crucial for democracy. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, The New York Daily News, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast and The New Republic. She has worked as a reporter and editor for WNYC radio and producer for WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, and was a contributing editor for Housing and Homelessness at City Limits.  Markey is the editor of the first anthology of the work of legendary Village Voice muckraker Wayne Barrett, Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism That First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and the American Epidemic of Corruption, Bold Type/Hachette 2020. Her book A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura was published by Nation Books in 2016 to wide acclaim and was selected as a New York Times editor’s pick. Now an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York, Markey studied at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and in Fordham University’s Urban Studies Program. But her best education was interning under Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice in the 1990s. She lives in the Bronx with her husband and two sons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Connie Mixon, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Elmhurst College, discusses the disparate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban areas.  Dr. Mixon explains how Urban Studies is really an interdisciplinary field studying many aspects of the differences in urban, suburban and rural areas.  PK and Elmhurst History Museum Director, Dave Oberg, share the significance of the railroad on Elmhurst's past, present and future, in an encore edition of "Once Ponce a Time."

The City of Belleville introduced on-demand transit for their evening service in September of 2018. After a year in service, and 3,000 registered users, a research team from the University of Toronto conducted a survey to better understand the social benefits of on-demand transit service. Professor Steven Farber, Department of Human Geography, and Shauna Brail, Director and Associate Professor, Urban Studies Program, join us to discuss the social and economic outcomes uncovered in their report.

Robin Chang and Meg Holden discuss how the Covid-19 situation has disrupted teaching and learning practices in urban research, deepening existing and exposing new inequalities. They consider in particular the short and long term implications of on-going restrictions for experiential learning, what this means for urban research methods, drawing on concepts like discomfort and positing a notion of an ethics of experience. Robin A. Chang is PhD Researcher and Instructor in the School of Spatial Planning at the Technical University of Dortmund in Dortmund, Germany. Her comparative research investigates temporary and adaptive uses through a complexity lens on urban and industrial lands in Germany and the Netherlands. As a Canadian based in Germany, she also combines her research and teaching interests with cross-cultural experiences in British Columbia and Metro Vancouver, her original home and professional planning context. Meg Holden is Director of the Urban Studies Program and Professor of Urban Studies and Geography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Her work focuses on pragmatic approaches to sustainable urban planning, policy and everday life. Key literature: Esteve Corbera, Isabelle Anguelovski, Jordi Honey-Rosés & Isabel Ruiz- Mallén (2020): Academia in the Time of COVID-19: Towards an Ethics of Care, Planning Theory & Practice, DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2020.1757891 Holden, Meg; Chang, Robin; and Gunderson, Rebecca (2019): Resilience and Pedagogy. Learning From International Field Studies in Urban Resilience in Canada and Germany. In Cities and the Environment (CATE) 12 (1). Available online at https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol12/iss1/2, checked on 3/19/2019. Mezirow, J. 1991. Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

When it comes to making decisions about how things happen in our cities, who has the power to make those decisions? Tiffany Muller Myrdahl, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Urban Studies Program, asks this question along with a host of others in her work and research. From her work with Women Transforming Cities to teaching in the classroom, Tiffany spends a lot of time navigating the inequalities that exist and looking for ways to make spaces and cities more inclusive, particularly for LGBTQ2S people and women. In this episode, Am and Tiffany talk about why this work is necessary and the ways in which Tiffany challenges her students who do this work as well. You can learn more about Women in Cities International, where Tiffany is a board member, by checking out https://femmesetvilles.org/. Additionally, you can read and download the Metropolis report, "Safety and Public Space: Mapping Metropolitan Gender Policies", here: https://www.metropolis.org/sites/default/files/resources/Mapping_metropolitan_gender_policies_0.pdf

The Sunday Edition Chapter 1 Cities need to innovate to improve transportation and reduce emissions Guest: Shauna Brail, Associate Professor, Urban Studies Program, University of Toronto Chapter 2 British Columbians Would Ban Mobile Phones in K-12 Classrooms Guest: Mario Canseco, President, ResearchCo Chapter 3 This B.C. mayor says his fight against a cocktail party taught him about the power of China's government Guest: Brad West, Mayor of Port Coquitlam Chapter 4 Homebuilders Meet with MLAs to Seek Action on Recommendations to Expedite Building Permits and Processes Guest: Ron Rapp, CEO, Homebuilders Association of Vancouver Chapter 5 Improving Physical Accessibility in Workplaces Would Result In a Dramatic Increase in Labour Force Participation Guest: Brad McCannell Rick Hansen Foundation VP of Access and Inclusion

Dozens of countries around the world are devising plans to build new cities from scratch. They're pitched as an opportunity to start fresh and make our urban environments more sustainable and equitable. But are these new cities just an excuse to abandon the problems of existing ones? Featuring:Dr Sarah Moser - Director of the Urban Studies Program, McGill University.Kerryn Wilmot - Research Principal and Core Member of the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney.Producer/Presenter: Daniel Butler.

The Girl Talk: 1968 EditionThis episode was recorded live at The Hideout in Chicago on August 28, 2018. 50 years ago this month, the streets of Chicago were packed with protesters demonstrating outside of the Democratic National Convention against the war in Vietnam and demanding civil rights and equality for African Americans.On the anniversary of those historic protests and the civil rights and student movements of 1968 in general, we'll be chatting with two women who were in the middle of it all, Mary Scott-Boria, a former member of the Black Panther Party, and Susan Klonsky, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society, which was the nation's largest student-led anti-war organization in the 1960s.Join us as Susan and Mary take us back to the heat of 1968, and shed some light on the lessons from that time for today's resistance movement. MARY SCOTT-BORIA is a lifelong resident of Chicago, arriving to Chicago at 15 where she was immediately immersed in the Chicago Freedom Movement as a young activist. Immediately upon graduating from high school she joined the Black Panther Party where her activities led her to working with the Puerto Rican Socialist Party. Mary has over 50 years of experience and knowledge of Chicago's communities, having worked as a professional social worker and human services administrator in several not for profit organizations. Her work and interests have been in women and youth issues and in community organizing and politics. She served as the founding executive director of the Chicago Sexual Assault Services Network, director of Youth Services Project (YSP), a founding executive member of the Cook County Democratic Women, and most recently as director of the Urban Studies Program of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. As director of Women's Services for the Metropolitan YWCA, she became interested in global issues of violence against women and visited women's anti-violence projects in Ghana and South Africa. She was also active in anti-apartheid organizing and visited South Africa soon after the release of Nelson Mandela. Her involvement with the Christian Peacemaker Teams afforded her the opportunity to travel and lead a delegation of activists to Palestine. Her background in anti-racism education and organizing has kept her involved in issues of racial justice since the late 60s and involved membership in the Chicago Black Panther Party.Mary holds a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her leadership in the Anti-Racism Institute of Clergy and Laity Concerned led her to seminary where she completed her Master of Divinity degree from the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. She served on the training team of the Christian Peacemakers Teams and was most recently active with the Mikva Challenge Foundation and CLAIM (Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers). She lives in the Humboldt Park community in Chicago with her husband Rafael. Her passion involves engaging herself, her children and grandchildren in social justice issues that are both local and global. SUSAN KLONSKY is a Chicago-based writer and activist, is interested in preserving and improving public education, especially through the arts and through the creation of smaller and more personalized public schools. In 1968 Susan was a 21-year-old member of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), the largest youth activist organization in the U.S. SDS actively supported various liberation movements both at home and internationally, and was deeply engaged in Its militant opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam. The national headquarters of SDS was in the West Side of Chicago. Susan was a member of the national staff which offered support to students interested in starting SDS chapters on their campuses in every state. Susan's personal activism was focused on organizing women, creating a more democratic and egalitarian culture within the student movement, and in finding concrete ways to organize in solidarity with the movements for civil rights and Black liberation in the U.S. The focus of her work over the years has been the creation of community based organizations, public schools and arts companies that can carry on those early goals of peace, nonviolence and freedom for all people.Let us know what you think! Visit us at https://www.girltalkchi.com/Contact us on Twitter @GirlTalkChi or on Facebook @girltalkchicagoSpecial thanks to the amazing Bleach Party for our theme music. Check them out at http://letshaveableachparty.bandcamp.com/

Black Kids in Outer Space speaks with Malo Hutson. Hutson is an Associate Professor in Urban Planning and founder and director of the Urban Community and Health Equity Lab within the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is also an Associate Member of the Earth Institute faculty at Columbia. Hutson is a widely-recognized scholar, teacher, and practitioner whose research at the intersection of urban planning and health inequities is of profound relevance in the planning of today’s cities across the United States, and around the world. Professor Hutson’s specific focus is on community development and urban equity, racial and ethnic inequalities and urban policy, as well as the built environment and health. Dr. Hutson has worked nationally and internationally on community-centered projects that improve the economic, environmental, political, and social well-being of urban residents. His research and writing have been recognized by numerous awards and grants, and his most recent book, The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice: Deepening Their Roots, explores the efforts by coalitions of residents, community leaders, unions, and others to resist displacement as a result of neighborhood change and gentrification. Dr. Hutson received his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and earned both his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Master of City Planning degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining Columbia GSAPP, Malo Hutson was an Associate Professor and the Chancellor's Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as the Associate Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning (IURD) and Chair of the Urban Studies Program. In addition, Dr. Hutson is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program where he was a fellow at the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health within the School of Public Health.

Rand Quinn, from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and Elaine Simon, from the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, opened the day with words of welcome, explaining the goals for the gathering, how it came to be, and the plan for the day.

Brail describes the issues she's most looking forward to tackling in her new role as U pf T's Presidential Advisor on Urban Engagement. Brail is a Senior Lecturer in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Toronto. She holds a BA in Urban Studies / Geography, an MA in Urban Planning and a PhD in Geography. Brail enjoyed a career in management consulting and as a senior policy advisor to the Ontario provincial government following the completion of her PhD, and prior to joining the University of Toronto. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Geography and Program in Planning and is a Research Fellow at the Munk School's Innovation Policy Lab. As part of her teaching, and through the incorporation of experiential learning initiatives in the Urban Studies Program, she has placed more than 500 U of T undergraduate students in internships and service learning placements at urban-focused organizations across the city over the past ten years.

Anthony Perl, Professor and Director of the Urban Studies Program, gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit 2011 Hilary Term seminar series on the subject of post-carbon mobility and transport.

Anthony Perl, Professor and Director of the Urban Studies Program, gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit 2011 Hilary Term seminar series on the subject of post-carbon mobility and transport.

Keith Gottschalk takes us on a Last Hurrah vacation, in his mind anyway. Next an excerpt of an interview with Susan Holtz of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, where she shared some of her big-picture thinking about energy, food and transportation. Peter Stock opened with a question about the relationship between bio-fuels and food. Next we bring some of the choices around transportation closer to home. In the Lower Mainland of British Colombia, the transit authority Translink is short of money. They need $150 million in the next two years and double that amount to meet expansion plans. They say a tax on individual cars would be one way to bring in some of the cash, and have proposed a $100 levy. Jane Williams of Vancouver Co-op Radio's “RedEye” examined the proposal with Anthony Perl, director of the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University. Here's an excerpt of their conversation. Whenever, where ever Victoria Fenner travels she takes her audio gear with her, she samples sounds the way most of us snap pictures. And, in her new podcast, The Roaming Ear, she brings those sounds home, plucks them off her hard drive and serves them up as as audio fieldnotes. Here's just an acoustic taste of her travels and discoveries Finally, we leave you with a lovely, mellow tune from the Saskatchewen based group, Deep Dark Woods. It's just one Western Canadian group the Ruckus has been presenting on the eponymous podcast here on the rpn. But, before we go, just a remind you to consider becoming a rabble.ca member so we can keep bringing you shows like rabbleradio, the Ruckus, the Roaming Ear and so much more here on the good ol' rpn. Now, the music: This track is All the Money I Had is gone from the band's new album Winter Hours.