Allied organizations: Upcoming events and programs

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Northern Section strives to deliver events and programs to help you achieve your professional development and networking goals. Our allied professional organizations also offer events and programs in a variety of formats that you may find align well with your professional and continuing education goals.

Below are some notable upcoming event or program opportunities selected by the Northern News team.

TOGETHER Bay Area – is a regional coalition of nonprofits, public agencies, and local Native governments / organizations / communities working together for climate resilient lands – including lands that are natural, working, rural, and urban. The health of these lands is integral to a thriving Bay Area and the health of all of the people and communities in our 10 county region. They connect, convene, and catalyze action for a just and equitable society where we live in relationship with the land that sustains us now and will sustain future generations.

Wildfire Data Working Group Session

3:00 p.m. | Thursday, August 22, 2024 | Online
Fee: Free

Our event on August 22 will be the second of two sessions focused on post-fire species recovery. This event will also have space for Q&A and breakout sessions for attendees to connect, digest information, and learn from one another.

To participate, email community@togetherbayarea.org. These meetings are open to everyone.

SPUR — the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association — is a nonprofit public policy organization bringing people together from across the political spectrum to develop solutions to the big problems cities face. Based in San Francisco, San José and Oakland, SPUR is recognized as a leading civic planning organization and respected for its independent and holistic approach to urban issues.

San José Urban Vibrancy Block Party [In-Person Event]

5:00 to 9:00 p.m. | Thursday, August 15, 2024 | Paseo de San Antonio, San José, CA

Join SPUR and Urban Vibrancy Institute for an exciting historic district block party in Paseo de San Antonio. Get ready for an unforgettable evening filled with live music, delicious food and drinks, exciting tours of new businesses, and much more. This is your chance to celebrate our community, support local businesses, and connect with your neighbors. Don’t miss out on the fun!

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Comparative Urbanism: Learning from Jakarta

1:00 to 6:00 p.m. | Friday, August 23, 2024 | SPUR Urban Center, San Francisco, CA
Fee: Free

The relations between cities in developed economies and cities of the Global South have traditionally been one of emulation: by modernizing in ways that were previously modeled in Europe and North America, cities in postcolonial countries could optimize urban development. In the 21st century, many cities in the Global South are larger and more dynamic than cities of the West. As San Francisco faces new challenges, considering emergent models can provide new perspectives. This event will present urbanist scholars from Jakarta—the world’s second largest city and one of its fastest growing—who will discuss current patterns of urban transformation there. Join SPUR and USF for a series of roundtables with urbanists from the Bay Area that will engage these concepts in the local context to discern collectively what lessons we can take away from engaging with Asia’s emerging cities.

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Urban Challenges Meeting AI Solutions in Latin America

12:30 to 1:30 p.m. | Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | Online
Fee: Free

In this upcoming webinar, Soledad Guilera will talk about the transformative potential of AI by spotlighting instances where Latin American cities have successfully integrated AI technologies into their urban frameworks. She will delve into practical examples, including the use of AI to map informal settlements and open dumps, as well as its application in surveillance programs and the creation of digital twins. Moreover, Guilera will explore the multifaceted role of the city as both a developer, user, and regulator of AI, while also discussing the pivotal components that should form the bedrock of any city’s AI strategy.

About Soledad Guilera: Soledad holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Massachusetts. She is a research affiliate at UCLA’s Luskin Center, a lecturer at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Professor of Smart Cities, AI, and Government at Torcuato Di Tella University in Argentina. She is an advisor to Urban AI, and she served as a Team Leader at the Center for AI and Digital Policy.

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Book Talk: Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System

12:30 to 1:30 p.m. | Tuesday, September 10, 2024 | Online
Fee: Free

In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us.
Fixing the carnage on our roadways requires a change in mindset and a dramatic transformation of transportation. This goes for traffic engineers in particular because they are still the ones in charge of our streets.

In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture.

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