Vancouver Flying University
Urban Frontiers: Gentrification and Otherwise
SFU Harbour Centre. September 16, 7pm.
Talk by Neil Smith & panel discussion with Nicholas Blomley, David Eby, Laura Track, Elvin K. Wyly
Neil Smith is an urban geographer who has been central to the critique of gentrification, a distinguished Professor and former Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include The Endgame of Globalization, The New Urban Frontier, and Uneven Development.
Nicholas Blomley is a professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University. His books include Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property and How Law Matters To Political Geography: Handbook of Political Geography (forthcoming).
David Eby is a lawyer with Pivot Legal Society and co-author of the report “Cracks in the Foundation” on homelessness and housing in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES).
Laura Track works with the PIVOT Legal Society and is the co-author of Beyond Decriminalization: Sex Work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform. She also filed a human rights complaint on behalf of VANDU and United Native Nations against the Downtown Ambassadors.
Elvin K. Wyly is an urban geographer at University of British Columbia. He co-edited the textbook Gentrification and co-authored “The City as an Image-Creation Machine.” He is currently working on a research project, “Displacement, Gentrification, and the Politics of Evidence.”