This symposium is the second of a two-part series, the first of which took place January 9-10, 2020 at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. This second symposium had been planned to take place at the University of Sydney, but was moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project Leads

Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair, City and Regional Planning (University of California, Berkeley)

Nicole Gurran, Professor and Chair, Urban and Regional Planning and Policy (University of Sydney)

Somwrita Sarkar, Senior Lecturer, Design (University of Sydney)

Project Team

Cynthia Goytia, Professor and Director, Urban Economics (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)

Ate Poorthuis, Assistant Professor, Geography (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

Jon Reades, Senior Lecturer, Quantitative Human Geography (King’s College, London)

Matthew Zook, Professor and Interim Chair, Geography (University of Kentucky)

Contact

Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair, City and Regional Planning (University of California, Berkeley) chapple@berkeley.edu

Supporting Organizations

This symposium is made possible with support from the Urban Studies Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Sydney. The Berkeley Institute of Data Science was a co-sponsor of the first symposium. The series has been supported by the Urban Displacement Project at the University of California, Berkeley, which aims to understand the nature of gentrification and displacement in American cities, focusing on creating tools to help communities identify the pressures surrounding them and take more effective action.