EVENT: Q&A on “Gentrification, Justice, and Cities”

DOJ- AHEAD invites all to a presentation, discussion, and Q&A on “Gentrification, Justice, and Cities” by Professor Brian McCabe on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. 

The program will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Lower Level Conference Room (Room LL 100) in the Liberty Square Building (entrances on 5th & 6th Streets NW between D & E Streets NW).  Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think may be interested. 

Brian J. McCabe is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He holds secondary appointments an adjunct instructor in the Regional and Urban Planning program at the School of Continuing Studies; a core faculty member in the program on Justice and Peace Studies; an affiliated faculty member in the Department of African-American Studies; and an affiliated faculty member in the McCourt School of Public Policy. Through his scholarship and teaching, Professor McCabe investigates the structures that contribute to social inequality, especially in American cities. His research offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cities, combining his training in sociology, geography and public policy to investigate housing policy and other urban issues.  Professor McCabe graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 2002. He completed a Master’s degree in urban geography at the London School of Economics in 2004 and a PhD in the Sociology Department at New York University in 2011.  To learn more about Professor McCabe, please visit https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RexIAAS/brian-mccabe. 

Over the last couple decades, the sweep of gentrification has remade many urban neighborhoods, including in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.  In doing so, it has raised new questions about the rights of long-term citizens to shape their own communities, and the unequal distribution of benefits from the process of gentrification.  Despite extensive neighborhood changes, the ghettoization of poverty and a legacy of racial segregation continue to pose unique challenges to the creation of more equitable, just cities. These challenges, many of which are heightened by the process of gentrification, push issues of social justice to the forefront of our conversations about contemporary cities.  They raise new questions about inequality, equity and the twenty-first century urban condition.

Please join us as we learn about and discuss these questions and issues.

Should you need access to the Liberty Square Building, please RSVP for the event by no later than Monday, April 22, 2019, to Sandra.Park@usdoj.gov.  To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact Ms. Park, and please submit requests for reasonable accommodation no later than Wednesday, April 17, 2019.