_UCSUR’S BROWN BAG SPEAKERS SERIES PRESENTS…_Tyeshia Redden, PhD,
Visiting Professor, Gettysburg College
_FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2018_
_TITLE: __URBAN APARTHEID & THE 2016 SUMMER OLYMPICS_
TYESHIA REDDEN is an urban planner whose work examines housing, urban
governance, and social policy. Before receiving her Ph.D. in Design,
Construction, & Planning from the University of Florida, she was
employed by DeKalb County Government as an economic development and
housing research analyst in the metro-Atlanta region. Dr. Redden's
talk focuses on her work that examines the forcible evictions
preceding the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Redden
argues that the evictions, coupled with a strategic disinvestment in
transit nodes, were a component of a larger municipal plan of urban
apartheid. The study links hyper-commodification of the urban
landscape to urban governance failures and asserts a healthy community
of scholar-activists exists globally, leveraging their academic
skillsets to address social inequalities. Redden is currently a
Visiting Professor at Gettysburg College and conducting a
grant-sponsored neighborhood resilience study in Gainesville, Florida.
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