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Date: March 12, 1998
Mega-Cities and Environmental Justice Is Subject of WWS Talk
Princeton, N.J. -- Janice E. Perlman, founder and president of the Mega-Cities Project, Inc., will give a lecture entitled "Transforming Practice and Policy in Mega-Cities: The Case of Environmental Justice" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, March 26, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
In addition to her position at the Mega-Cities Project, Perlman is a research scholar in the metropolitan studies program at New York University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, she served as coordinator of President Carter's Neighborhood Task Force on Urban Policy, special adviser to the World Bank Urban Projects Department, executive director of strategic planning for the New York City Partnership, director of science and public policy at the New York Academy of Sciences, and consultant to numerous nonprofit organizations and local and national governments both in the United States and abroad.
Perlman is the author or editor of several books on urban development, including the forthcoming Urban Leadership for the 21st Century: Scaling Up and Reaching Out from the Neighborhood Level. Her book The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro received the C. Wright Mills Award in 1977 for that year's most outstanding contribution to public policy for social problems. Her paper "Misconceptions about the Urban Poor and the Dynamics of Housing Policy Evolution," written for the Journal of Planning Education and Research, received that journal's Chester Rapkin Award for 1988.
The Mega-Cities Project is a transnational nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying and sharing innovative, workable solutions to the problems of the world's largest cities. Since its founding in 1987, Mega-Cities has established working teams in twenty of the world's largest cities, including Bangkok, Cairo, Istanbul, Karachi, London, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
Perlman's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.