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SPECIAL TRACKS: Burd Track on Media & Urban Life | Urban Issues in Asia & the Pacific Rim ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: 43rd Annual Meeting Committees | UAA Governing Board | UAA Executive Office Staff

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6:00am PDT

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6:45am PDT

Thursday - Registration (6:45am-6:30pm) Gold Room

7:00am PDT

Thursday - Elitists, Pluralists, and Growth Machines..What now? Grand Ballroom Thursday - International Scholars Roundtable Grand Ballroom Thursday - Paradoxes of Diversity in Public Housing: Which Differences Really Matter? Grand Ballroom Thursday - Surviving Graduate School: The Dissertation is Just One Challenge Grand Ballroom Thursday - Writing Winning Grant Proposals for Urban Scholarship Grand Ballroom Thursday - “Get Involved! How Students Can Benefit from being a part of the Urban Affairs Association” Sponsored by the UAA Membership Committee Grand Ballroom Thursday - Continental Breakfast - BADGE OR TICKET REQUIRED Grand Ballroom Thursday - Book Exhibit (7:00am-6:00pm) Gold Room

8:05am PDT

Thursday - Plenary Session: Innovation, Internationalization and the Challenge of Social Inclusion in the San Francisco Bay Area Grand Ballroom

9:15am PDT

Thursday - Strategic Use of Neighborhood Data for Action: Lessons from the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership George Smith Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Art, For More than Art's Sake: The Role of Art in Urban Regeneration Green Room Thursday - Community Organizations: Contestation, Collaboration, and Institutionalization Pavillion Room Thursday - Considering and Reconsidering the Core of Urban Theory Garden Room Thursday - Food, Water, and Urban Environmental Issues Stanford Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Housing in Context: Rights and Preferences French Room Thursday - Managing Urban Sprawl and Suburbanization [URBAN ISSUES IN ASIA & PACIFIC RIM TRACK] Crystal Room Thursday - Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies Hunt Room Thursday - Relocation and Residential Mobility: Individual and Neighborhood Impacts Venetian Room Thursday - Service Provision in Cities I: Services for Old, Young, and the Homeless Empire Room Thursday - Spatial & Social Effects of Global City Growth Fountain Room Thursday - The Civic Incorporation of Underrepresented Groups Vanderbilt Room Thursday - The Politics of Poverty California Room Thursday - Theorizing 'Green' Six Continents Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Urban Service Delivery Challenges International Room

10:35am PDT

Thursday - Coffee Break Gold Room / Mezzanine / Loggia and Mark Hopkins hallway area

10:55am PDT

Thursday - Debating the Socially Transformative Possibilities of Community Land Trusts: Critical Social, Environmental, and Economic Perspectives French Room Thursday - Getting Published in the Journal of Urban Affairs: Authoring, Revising, and Reviewing Scholarship Empire Room Thursday - Urban Policy in the Age of Obama: An Assessment of the First Term; Colloquy Session 1: Housing Policy, Housing Finance, and Regulation Terrace Room Thursday - CBOs, Local Government and the Politics of Community Development Pavillion Room Thursday - Culture in Cities: Planning, Promotion, Film, Fashion, and TV Garden Room Thursday - Dynamics of Urban Crime & Studies in Criminal Punishment George Smith Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Housing Policy and Finance [URBAN ISSUES IN ASIA & PACIFIC RIM TRACK] Crystal Room Thursday - Inclusion After the Great Recession: The Role of Community Organizations and Social Enterprises in Promoting Social and Economic Inclusion Far East Room Thursday - Inequality and Change in Cities Throughout the World California Room Thursday - Media and the City: Thinking Locally [BURD TRACK ON MEDIA & URBAN LIFE] Green Room Thursday - Migration, Urbanization, and Acculturation [URBAN ISSUES IN ASIA & PACIFIC RIM TRACK] Fountain Room Thursday - Race, Choice, and Relocation Outcomes Venetian Room Thursday - Race, Inequality, and Struggles for Social Justice in Silicon Valley International Room Thursday - Re-examining Economic Development Strategies Six Continents Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Regional Governance and Collaboration Grand Ballroom Lounge Thursday - The Politics of Local Elections Vanderbilt Room Thursday - Trends in New Global Neoliberal Cities Hunt Room Thursday - Urban Transportation and Environmental Issues Stanford Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel)

12:20pm PDT

Thursday - Luncheon Program (plated lunch) - BADGE OR TICKET REQUIRED Grand Ballroom

1:30pm PDT

Thursday - Education as a Tool for Breaking the Cycle of Family Homelessness Far East Room Thursday - OCCUPY: The Meaning of the Protest Movement for Cities California Room Thursday - The Case of Jerome Park:Displacement, Redevelopment, and Reunion. Reconstructing a Neighborhood Community Fifty Years after the Big Flood. George Smith Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Age and Gender Factors in Housing Access French Room Thursday - Approaches to Promoting Home Ownership for Low-Income Residents Venetian Room Thursday - Institutional Anchors and Strategic Inputs to Drive Neighborhood Change Pavillion Room Thursday - Local State-Civil Relationships Grand Ballroom Lounge Thursday - Planning and Managing the Peri-Urban Interface [URBAN ISSUES IN ASIA & PACIFIC RIM TRACK] Crystal Room Thursday - Planning for Culture and the Creatives Garden Room Thursday - Policy Adaptations to Urban Culture [URBAN ISSUES IN ASIA & PACIFIC RIM TRACK] Fountain Room Thursday - Political Manifestations of Diversity and Demographic Change International Room Thursday - Stuff and the City: Hoarding as an Urban Health Issue Stanford Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - The Arts and Culture in San Francisco Bay Area Development Discourse and Practice Empire Room Thursday - The Greening of Global Cities Six Continents Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Theories and Practices of the New Urban Culture [BURD TRACK ON MEDIA & URBAN LIFE] Green Room Thursday - Understanding the Links and Consequences of the Suburbanization of Poverty Hunt Room Thursday - Urban Political Theory Vanderbilt Room Thursday - Urban Theory: Theorizing Globalization Terrace Room

2:50pm PDT

Thursday - Coffee Break Gold Room / Mezzanine / Loggia and Mark Hopkins hallway area

3:10pm PDT

Thursday - Activist Scholarship: Why does it Matter? Empire Room Thursday - Going Abroad: Ways to Do and Sustain International and Comparative Urban Scholarship Green Room Thursday - New Dimensions of Nonprofit Lobbying Grand Ballroom Lounge Thursday - The Inclusive City: Perspectives from Political Philosophy California Room Thursday - Urban Policy in the Age of Obama: An Assessment of the First Term; Colloquy Session II: Finding the urban in Obama’s public policies Terrace Room Thursday - Citizen Participation and Collaborative Urban Planning [URBAN ISSUES IN ASIA & PACIFIC RIM TRACK] Crystal Room Thursday - Emerging and Engaged Methods for Community Indicators Stanford Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Highlighting Houston: Studying an Emerging Global City Garden Room Thursday - Immigration, Mobility, and Segregation International Room Thursday - Inequality and Education Hunt Room Thursday - Investors on the Block: How Distressed Property Investors are Changing the Dynamics of American Regions, Cities and Neighborhoods, Part 1 Pavillion Room Thursday - MEGAEVENTPLANNING: Mega Events and Urban Development Fountain Room Thursday - Re-examining the Governance/Development Nexus Vanderbilt Room Thursday - Redesigning and Regenerating Urban Space George Smith Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - The Local Politics of Financialization: Tensions, Contradictions and Contestation in Community Practice and Urban Governance Venetian Room Thursday - The Next Generation of Comprehensive Community Initiatives:Findings and New Directions French Room Thursday - Urban Regeneration and Sustainability Six Continents Room (Mark Hopkins Hotel) Thursday - Fulbright Scholar Program Opportunities in Urban Affairs Far East Room

4:30pm PDT

Thursday - Annual Business Meeting (open to all UAA members) Garden Room

5:15pm PDT

Thursday - Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) Informal Gathering Crystal Room Thursday - Governing Board Meeting II Garden Room

6:00pm PDT

Thursday - UAA Happy Hour (beverage/light appetizers) - BADGE OR TICKET REQUIRED Mark Hopkins Hotel: Peacock Court / Hall of the Dons

7:00pm PDT

Thursday - Dinner (on your own) TBA Thursday - Reception for Institutional Member Reps & Conference Sponsors (invitation only) Crown Room