Registration is now open!
The University of Illinois at Chicago is pleased to announce the 2014 Urban Forum: The Return of the NEIGHBORHOOD as an Urban Strategy
Thursday, September 18, 2014
8:45 AM - 4:45 PM
UIC Forum
725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608 For tickets and the Forum agenda, please visit:
www.uicurbanforum.org
Admission is complimentary for all Chicago-area teachers, faculty and students with valid ID. Tickets are $25 for the general public.
Registration required for all guests. Lunch will be provided.
Questions? Email UICUrban@uic.edu
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Metropolitan regions are a complex web of activities, systems and networks, of people, businesses, and capital, and of commercial, industrial and residential areas. The strength, value, welfare and resilience of cities and metropolitan regions reflect their core building blocks, namely, their neighborhoods. Sustainable capital and societal investments in people and firms at the neighborhood level—from micro-enterprises to factories, from social spaces for collective and social action to private facilities, from affordable housing and safety to gated communities, from accessible jobs and transportation to opportunities for growth and development, from public education in the neighborhood to cooperative, charter and private education—reflect contested and diffuse paths to enhancing the quality of life for individuals, households and neighborhoods.
The 2014 UIC Urban Forum will engage policymakers, researchers, public intellectuals and citizens in a dynamic discussion and debate about the broad issues surrounding the role neighborhoods can and do play in building strong, livable urban regions.
CO-CHAIRS
Toni Preckwinkle
President, Cook County Board
Susana Vasquez
Executive Director, LISC Chicago
Paula Allen-Meares
Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago
