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Do Cities Have a Future?

UC Berkeley's journalism school is proving to be an amazing resource for thought-provoking public lectures. On March 20th, and interesting urban studies lecture open to the public:

The New Metropolis: Do Cities Have a Future?"

A discussion with Washington Post writer and author Joel Garreau, San Francisco Chronicle urban design writer John King, and Bay Area developer Rick Holliday. Moderated by UC Berkeley Journalism School Terner Teaching Fellow Bradley Inman

Thursday, March 20
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
UC Berkeley School of Journalism
North Gate Hall, Berkeley Room 105

US cities are bubbling up, taking new shapes and making new sounds. Some downtowns are becoming tourist destinations, sparkling like never before. Others are as dead as Babylon. Some places that until recently were bedroom communities are now job-packed, high-property-value visions of an ethnically integrated, high-technology future. Others are a darkly punk hallucination featuring gangs, gridlock and drugs. How does this new weave of urban events fit together?

Sponsored by the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, College of Environmental Design, the Program on Housing and Urban Policy and BRIDGE Housing Corporation.

Faculty, professionals, students, and community members are invited to attend.