Conferences Organized
2026
January 15-17, 2026. Multiplied Displacements: The Climate-Housing Nexus. University of Toronto School of Cities, Boston University Initiative on Cities, and Tulane University Center on Climate Change and Urbanism. New Orleans, Louisiana.
January 30-31, 2026. Cities of Care: Shaping sustainable and equitable futures through the water-food-waste nexus. University of Toronto School of Cities India and Center for Information Technology and Public Policy at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. Tamil Nadu, India.
2025
January 4-5, 2025. AI and the City: Understanding new applications in urban environments. University of Toronto School of Cities India. Bangalore, India.
2024
June 17-18, 2024. Equitable Development Data Insights Symposium. University of Toronto.
April 24, 2024. Housing Supply, Upzoning and Density: Research and Policy Colloquium. With University of Sydney. Urban Affairs Conference, New York City.
March 27, 2024. Roundtable on Care Economies. University of Toronto School of Cities.
2023
November 3, 2023. Assessing the Data and Methods for Action on Climate Displacement. University of Toronto School of Cities with BU Initiative on Cities, Boston.
October 11, 2023. Metropolitan Planning Organization Roundtable. University of Toronto School of Cities.
September 29, 2023. Assessing the State of the Art in Climate Displacement Research. University of Toronto School of Cities with BU Initiative on Cities, Toronto.
July 29-31, 2023. Ph.D. Workshop on Urban Mixed Methods across the Disciplines. University of Toronto School of Cities.
May 24, 2023. Symposium on Climate Justice + Cities. University of Toronto School of Cities.
2021
July 12, 2021. Virtual Symposium on Housing Policy and Displacement. Urban Displacement Project, Berkeley and Toronto.
2020
August 11, 18, 25 2020. Predicting Neighborhood Change Using Big Data and Machine Learning: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice. Part II. Berkeley Institute of Data Science, Berkeley, California.
January 9-10, 2020. Predicting Neighborhood Change Using Big Data and Machine Learning: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice. Part I. Berkeley Institute of Data Science, Berkeley, California.
2017
May 15, 2017. Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development in Latin American Regions. Institute for International Studies,. Berkeley, California.
2015
March 5, 2015. Reducing Inequality in a Sustainable World. Institute of Urban & Regional Development. Berkeley, California.
2014
March 20-21, 2014. Transit and Cities. Institute of Urban & Regional Development. Berkeley, California.
2011
September 8, 2011, November 17, 2011, & February 23, 2012 .Urban Housing, Economy, and Transit, Confronting a Crisis: A Conference Series on Sustainability. Berkeley, California.
June 16-17, 2011. Big Ideas for Job Creation in a Jobless Recovery. Institute for Research on Labor & Employment. Berkeley, California.
2010
June 1, 2010. TOD and Social Equity: An Agenda for Research and Action. Center for Community Innovation. Berkeley, California.
January 21, 2010. Innovating the Green Economy. Center for Community Innovation and U.S. Economic Development Administration. Berkeley, California.
2008
October 23-24, 2008. National Green Industries Policy Retreat. Pocantico, New York.
January 25, 2008. Arts, Neighborhoods, and Social Practice: The Arts as Integral to Processes of Urban Community Revitalization and Civic Engagement. Center for Community Innovation and Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC-Berkeley.
2007
November 30, 2007. This Land is (Whose?) Land: Futures for the Bay Area’s Industrial Land. Center for Community Innovation, UC-Berkeley.
March 9, 2007. Are We There Yet? Bay Area Transit-Oriented Communities and Mixed Incomes. Center for Community Innovation, UC-Berkeley.
2006
October 14, 2006. Re-Viewing Richmond in Time and Place: Issues of Equity and Inequity in a Regional Context. Center for Community Innovation with Paul Groth. Department of Geography, UC-Berkeley.
August 11, 2006. Equitable Development and Mixed-Income Communities: Best Practices and Scenarios. Center for Community Innovation, UC-Berkeley.
Past Events
Recent events hosted by Karen Chapple via the Berkeley Institute of Data Science, the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, and the Center for Community Innovation:
Predicting Neighborhood Change Using Big Data and Machine Learning: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice.
January 9-10, 2020
UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement Project and the University of Sydney’s Urban Housing Lab hosted a symposium on neighborhood change funded by the Urban Studies Foundation and hosted by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. The conference brought together urban researchers from universities across the United States as well as Spain, Australia, England, Argentina, Germany, and Singapore, who engaged in a lively conversation with Bay Area planners and housing advocates. The research projects discussed over the two days use machine learning and big data in innovative ways to explore, map and quantify urban change in some of the world’s most dynamic cities. For more information, see my blog.
Reducing Inequality in a Sustainable World
March 5, 2015
As the global movement for sustainability is gaining steam, inequality continues growing rapidly. How can we slow inequality and poverty while increasing the sustainability of our living patterns and economies?
Program and Speaker Presentations
Urban Housing Economy & Transit
Confronting a Crisis: A Conference on Sustainability
Sustainable Economic Development Strategies in Lean Fiscal Times
November 17, 2011
Program and Speaker Presentations
TOD and Social Equity: An Agenda for Research and Action
A conference sponsored by the University of California Transportation Center and the UC Berkeley Center for Community Innovation
June 1, 2010
Program and Speaker Presentations
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Innovating the Green Economy
A Conference Sponsored by the U.S. Economic Development Administration and the Center for Community Innovation at the UC Berkeley Institute for Urban and Regional Development
January 21, 2010
Program and Speaker Presentations
Conference on Arts, Neighborhoods, and Social Practice
The arts as integral to processes of urban community revitalization and civic engagement
January 25th, 2008
Program and Speaker Presentations
UC Berkeley Conference on Industrial Land Use
This symposium helped to coordinate the conversation around how Bay Area cities are trying to decide how much of their industrial land supply to convert to residential and commercial uses.
November, 2007
Program and Speaker Presentations
Are We There Yet? Bay Area Transit-Oriented Communities and Mixed Incomes
March 9, 2007
Equitable Development and Mixed-Income Communities: Best Practices and Scenarios
A summit of Bay Area and key national experts, including policymakers, developers, and community actors
August 11, 2006