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DCRP Colloquium, entitled "Transit Investments and Economic Productivity: a Debate."

Please join us for our next upcoming colloquium: Daniel Chatman, Associate Professor in our very own DCRP; Daniel Graham, of the Center for Transport Studies at Imperial College London; and David Levinson of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota will be presenting and discussing their research on this topic. In addition, Robert Helsley of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas business school here at Berkeley will be serving as the discussant for what will undoubtedly be a lively exchange of ideas and differing viewpoints.  This Colloquium will take place on Monday, April 2, from 5 to 7 pm . Note that this is the first weekday after spring break, so best to get this on your calendar now. We're expecting a big crowd, so we'll be holding this event in Wurster Room 112, the large auditorium on the first floor , accessed directly from the lobby.  Also, as you interact with the prospective students who will be visiting the dep...

MS|PHD ARCHITECTURE MS/PhD STUDENT COLLOQUIUM

Monday, April 2 2-3 PM 112 Wurster (refreshments provided) 2:00 - 2:20 Kah-Wee Lee, Phd Candidate CRIMINALIZING VICE: THE “COMMON GAMING HOUSE” IN COLONIAL SINGAPORE Lee will discuss a specific nexus of power/knowledge in the project of criminalizing vice in colonial Singapore. The task faced by the colonial administrators was not just to suppress vice, but to protect law itself from its own excesses. The Common Gaming House that targeted illegal gambling was a political technology that tried to distribute the weight of punishment effectively and righteously, yet always reserving a space of tolerated illegalities where the distinction between crime and vice was ambiguous.   2:20 - 2:40 Joseph Godlewski, Phd Candidate EMERGENT PROTOZONES The socio-political and economic atmosphere of Calabar, Nigeria is one which, for centuries, has tended to be decentralized in nature. Consisting of polynucleated and fragmented zones that were loosely tied together by informal juridical...