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Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022 | 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Geography Capstone Presentations

You are invited to attend capstone presentations from students in GEOG/ENVI 478: The political economy of urban sustainability. All are welcome to attend these public presentations. The presentations will take place in the Harmon Room of the Library, from 3-4:30 pm. Please note the order of presentations. 

Each person will present for 12 minutes and respond to questions for five minutes following the presentation.


Day 1: December 1

Charlie Bonham - Impactful Food Equity councils for Urban farming: Chicago Case Study

Maxime Khundadze - Sustainability Implications of Housing Density and Poverty

Rebecca Driker-Ohren - Un-damming the Future: Measuring Social Sustainability through Public Engagement

Sami Banat - Radical Sustainability: Environment, Infrastructure, and Justice in Beirut's Palestinian Refugee Camps


Day 2: December 6

Julia Chamberland - Navigating Land-Use Conflicts: A Case Study of Rice Street Gardens

Tala Tabishat - The True Potential of Urban Gardens as Nature-Based Solutions for a Resilient Future

Jonah Wexler - "Cutting Neighborhoods With Scissors": A Discussion on Public School Boundaries in Broward County, FL

Milosz Fernandez-Kepka - Sports Mega Events and Sustainable Development: The Legacy of Olympic Villages in Vancouver, London, Sochi and Rio de Janeiro.

Silas Southworth - Community Land Trusts; Scaling Up Affordable Housing in Minneapolis


Day 3: December 8

Pippa Gallagher - Lessons of Sustainable Architecture in Scandinavia

Seth Buikema - Navigating TOD: Public Engagement and Densification 

Lily Lorenzen - Building a Resilient Water Future: Lessons from Cape Town’s “Day Zero”

Sam Brainin - Preservation and Prevention: The Effects of Hydraulics on Flood and Pollution Mitigation in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Corgan Archuleta - Is Daylighting just Sustainable? Realizing Just Sustainabilities at Phalen Creek

Contact: [email protected]

Audience: Faculty, Public, Staff, Students

Admission: 0

Sponsor: Geography

Listed under: Campus Events, Front Page Events

Location

DeWitt Wallace Library - Harmon Room

110 Macalester St.

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