Geography Seminar: A City Is Sometimes a Tree

Please join us for "A City Is Sometimes a Tree," an Urban Conversations event with speaker Geoff Boeing in conversation with Carole Voulgaris.  Geoff is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy.  

Sponsored by Harvard HMUI, and special thanks to GSD and JCHS.

The event will take place 11:30am-1:00pm in the Plimton Room (Barker Center 133) at the Harvard Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge.  Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP by Thursday, March 5 for this event.

Geoff Boeing is an Associate Professor in USC’s Department of Urban Planning and
Spatial Analysis, the Director of USC’s Urban Data Lab, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow
at the Brookings Institution. His research and teaching focus on geospatial data science,
urban networks, and information landscapes. His work has won the Nobel Sustainability
Award and the Stough-Johansson Springer Award, and is regularly featured in the media
including The Economist, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. He
developed and maintains the OSMnx street network modeling software and has served as a
consultant for several planning, policymaking, and public health organizations. He has
never played a round of golf or drunk a cup of coffee in his life.