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Random musings from a Midwesterner in Beantown.
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Sprawl in Overdrive: Hurdles to Smart Growth (TOMORROW!)
From: Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
Dear Colleague,
We would like to remind you about the next event in the Boston 101 Speakers' Series:
Sprawl in Overdrive: Hurdles to Smart Growth
Wednesday, November 9
Noon
Room 301, 3rd floor Taubman Building
15 Eliot Street
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Remarks by
Anthony Flint, Smart Growth Education Director at the Office for Commonwealth Development, former reporter for The Boston Globe
Comments by
Alan Altshuler, Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design
The author of the forthcoming book, Developing America: Dispatches from a Suburban Nation discusses the anti-sprawl movement, the backlash against it, and the continuing of dispersal of residential living.
Anthony Flint was a reporter for 16 years at the Boston Globe and a former research fellow at the Graduate School of Design and the Lincoln Land Institute. He will offer a political, cultural and economic analysis of movements such as smart growth, New Urbanism, green building, and why these new ideas are encountering such stiff resistance. This event is co-sponsored by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government.
Wednesday, November 9 at 12 noon
Room 301, 3rd floor, KSG's Taubman Building
(15 Eliot Street)
Please also join us for the next Boston 101 session co-sponsored by The
Program on Criminal Justice Policy and Management.
Immigration and Crime: Recent Patters and Future Challenges
Monday, November 21
5:00 p.m.
Bell Hall, 5th floor Belfer Building
Corner of JFK and Eliot Streets
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Remarks by
Robert J. Sampson
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences,
Chairman, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Co-author (with Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Stephen Raudenbush) "Social Anatomy of Racial Ethnic Disparities in Violence," American Journal of Public Health (February 2005)
Comments by
Larry Mayes
Chief of Human Services for the City of Boston, who formerly worked with members of Boston's Cape Verdean Community as head of the Log School and as a youth street outreach worker employed by the Ella J. Baker House
Why do black youth in the United States commit violent acts almost twice as often as white or Latino youth? In recently published research based primarily on data from Chicago, Sampson and his colleagues found that the reasons have little to do with individual poverty or inherent racial differences. Rather, four factors-the marital status of a young person's parents, the prevalence of professionals and managers in his or her neighborhood, whether he or she is a first- or second-generation immigrant, and the proportion of other people in the neighborhood who are immigrants-account for most of the differences in violent crime rates for youth. According to Sampson, the findings suggest that the disparity in crime rates "is largely social in nature and therefore amenable to intervention in community rather than individual settings."
At this event, Sampson will discuss this research and its implications for policymakers. Larry Mayes will offer a brief response, reflecting on his own experiences working on these issues in Boston's Cape Verdean community.
This free event is presented by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Kennedy School's Program on Criminal Justice Policy and Management.. For more information, contact Polly O'Brien at 617-495-5091 or polly@rappaportinstitute.org.
Monday, November 21 at 5:00 p.m.
Bell Hall, 5th floor, KSG's Belfer Building
(Corner of JFK and Eliot Streets)
David Luberoff
Executive Director
Dear Colleague,
We would like to remind you about the next event in the Boston 101 Speakers' Series:
Sprawl in Overdrive: Hurdles to Smart Growth
Wednesday, November 9
Noon
Room 301, 3rd floor Taubman Building
15 Eliot Street
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Remarks by
Anthony Flint, Smart Growth Education Director at the Office for Commonwealth Development, former reporter for The Boston Globe
Comments by
Alan Altshuler, Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design
The author of the forthcoming book, Developing America: Dispatches from a Suburban Nation discusses the anti-sprawl movement, the backlash against it, and the continuing of dispersal of residential living.
Anthony Flint was a reporter for 16 years at the Boston Globe and a former research fellow at the Graduate School of Design and the Lincoln Land Institute. He will offer a political, cultural and economic analysis of movements such as smart growth, New Urbanism, green building, and why these new ideas are encountering such stiff resistance. This event is co-sponsored by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government.
Wednesday, November 9 at 12 noon
Room 301, 3rd floor, KSG's Taubman Building
(15 Eliot Street)
Please also join us for the next Boston 101 session co-sponsored by The
Program on Criminal Justice Policy and Management.
Immigration and Crime: Recent Patters and Future Challenges
Monday, November 21
5:00 p.m.
Bell Hall, 5th floor Belfer Building
Corner of JFK and Eliot Streets
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Remarks by
Robert J. Sampson
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences,
Chairman, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Co-author (with Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Stephen Raudenbush) "Social Anatomy of Racial Ethnic Disparities in Violence," American Journal of Public Health (February 2005)
Comments by
Larry Mayes
Chief of Human Services for the City of Boston, who formerly worked with members of Boston's Cape Verdean Community as head of the Log School and as a youth street outreach worker employed by the Ella J. Baker House
Why do black youth in the United States commit violent acts almost twice as often as white or Latino youth? In recently published research based primarily on data from Chicago, Sampson and his colleagues found that the reasons have little to do with individual poverty or inherent racial differences. Rather, four factors-the marital status of a young person's parents, the prevalence of professionals and managers in his or her neighborhood, whether he or she is a first- or second-generation immigrant, and the proportion of other people in the neighborhood who are immigrants-account for most of the differences in violent crime rates for youth. According to Sampson, the findings suggest that the disparity in crime rates "is largely social in nature and therefore amenable to intervention in community rather than individual settings."
At this event, Sampson will discuss this research and its implications for policymakers. Larry Mayes will offer a brief response, reflecting on his own experiences working on these issues in Boston's Cape Verdean community.
This free event is presented by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Kennedy School's Program on Criminal Justice Policy and Management.. For more information, contact Polly O'Brien at 617-495-5091 or polly@rappaportinstitute.org.
Monday, November 21 at 5:00 p.m.
Bell Hall, 5th floor, KSG's Belfer Building
(Corner of JFK and Eliot Streets)
David Luberoff
Executive Director
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