The Global Financial Crisis: the implications for city and regional planning

Iwan Azis, City and regional planning professor and adjunct professor of economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, on the implications for city and regional planning

(Jan 23, 2009 at Cornell University)

Iwan J. Azis has addressed and published on topics of financial economics, economic modeling, and the linkages between macro-financial policy and social issues. He has conducted research and consulted for various international organizations and universities. Azis has held a visiting professorship at the MITI Institute in Japan, Australian National University in Canberra, and Gakushuin University in Tokyo. He recently received the award for "Distinguished Scholar in Regional Science, Financial Economics, and Economic Modeling," presented at the Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) Business School, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006. During the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, he spoke before the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the U.S. Congress along with the deputy prime ministers of Thailand and Korea. Azis is the director of Cornell University's graduate program in regional science.

The lecture was co-sponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

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[emotionalinvalid]

I am an economic dummy. But what I pick up from this fine lecturer is his sympathy for the working, middle, and small businessman/woman. Most will blame the poor bastard without enough money to rent a room at the ymca for getting sucked into this housing scam. Parenti, Chomsky, Colon, Hedges hold the higher ground as does Iwan Azis above the banksters, national security state. The bailouts were evil. Parenti:"the state makes life 'safe' for the fortune 500".

[sebbbo77]

Take it from me - I worked as a town planner for 10 years. Its a shocking job. Full of petty people and also punitive bosses who get you to approve everything. Not only that, there is not creation or design at all, despite the bullshit they teach you at university which as you say is full of frivolity and no substance. The fact is that planners are treated as punching bags who only do process. The profession is full of uneducated people who seek to rise above eachother. So glad I am out !!

[cssunreiss]

This department is one of the most non-scientific, soft- program ever.. meaning one has to get a new profession right after getting (sic) a Sibley Hall degree. Sad, false marketing.. too much fluff and lovely cocktail party chatter that is "core curriculum"