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BUSSA

CY 2011 OFFICER APPLICATIONS

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011

BUSSA IS NOW TAKING CALENDAR YEAR 2011 OFFICER APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

• PRESIDENT

• VICE PRESIDENT/NETWORKING AND CAREER CHAIR

• SECRETARY/TREASURER

• PUBLICITY CHIEF

BUSSA is currently undergoing a phase of reform and we’re seeking officers who would execute their responsibilities with prompt efficiency and competence, as well as become fountainheads of new ideas for the direction of the Association.

To apply, download the Officer Interest Form and submit it completed in PDF form to calbussa@gmail.com with “BUSSA OFFICER APPLICATION” in the subject line no later than 11:30PM, Friday, April 1, 2011.

FORM LINK: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5cApeWPYA8NY2NkN2I0NjUtNGUyYi00MzJiLThkZjgtZDMzYzU3NmE5ODE2&hl=en&authkey=CKqRucME

THANK YOU.

NATHAN MACHIDA

PRESIDENT, BERKELEY URBAN STUDIES STUDENT ASSOCIATION (BUSSA)

CALBUSSA@GMAIL.COM

BUSSA

CAL DAY EVENT VOLUNTEERS

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011, 9-5PM

BUSSA IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP LEAD THE FOLLOWING CAL DAY ACTIVITY:

“KIDS, BUILD A BOX CITY!”

Help build a city and learn how cities are planned, or unplanned; what makes a quality city; and how citizens (yes, kids too!) can participate in the improvement of the built environment.

Volunteers would be supervising the activity where kids and parents/guardians build a city with various craft supplies provided by the Undergrad Advising Office.

WE NEED AT LEAST EIGHT VOLUNTEERS TAKING TWO HOUR SHIFTS (TWO PEOPLE LEADING THE EVENT AT A TIME FOR A TWO HOUR BLOCK).

PLEASE EMAIL calbussa@gmail.com WITH YOUR NAME AND PHONE NUMBER BY APRIL 1, 2011 IF YOU'D LIKE TO VOLUNTEER. THANK YOU.

NATHAN MACHIDA

PRESIDENT, BERKELEY URBAN STUDIES STUDENT ASSOCIATION (BUSSA)

CALBUSSA@GMAIL.COM

BUSSA + ITE

DOWNTOWN BERKELEY

SCAVENGER HUNT

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2010

2:00-3:30PM

MEET AT DOWNTOWN BERKELEY BART ROTUNDA

IT’S TIME FOR SOME INTER-SPECIES MIXING! COME AND MEET YOUR TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER PEERS AND DISCOVER ANOTHER DIMENSION OF COMMONALITY.

PLEASE RVSP HERE: http://tinyurl.com/berkscavenger

NATHAN MACHIDA

PRESIDENT, BERKELEY URBAN STUDIES STUDENT ASSOCIATION (BUSSA)

CALBUSSA@GMAIL.COM

BUSSA

CHINATOWN WALKING TOUR

HOSTED BY SAN FRANCISCO CITY GUIDES.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010

MEET AT DOWNTOWN BERKELEY BART at 9:10AM

TOUR: 10AM-NOON

JOIN US, AFTER THE TOUR WE’LL PARTAKE IN THE FARE OF THE LOCALE. BE SURE TO BRING BART FARE AND $ FOR LUNCH.

INFO ABOUT THE TOUR: http://www.sfcityguides.org/desc.html?tour=8.

PLEASE RSVP TO calbussa@gmail.com WITH YOUR NAME AND PHONE NUMBER IF YOU'D LIKE TO ATTEND. THANK YOU.

ALSO, DON’T FORGET TO SUBMIT YOUR BUSSA OFFICER APPLICATIONS BY EMAIL BY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2010.

NATHAN MACHIDA

PRESIDENT, BERKELEY URBAN STUDIES STUDENT ASSOCIATION (BUSSA)

CALBUSSA@GMAIL.COM

BUSSA

DOWNTOWN BERKELEY

WALKING TOUR & PRESENTATION

HOSTED BY MATT TAECKER, AICP, PRINCIPAL PLANNER FOR THE CITY OF BERKELEY'S DOWNTOWN AREA PLAN (DAP)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010

CITY OF BERKELEY PLANNING DEPARTMENT

2120 MILVIA STREET (MEET IN FRONT)

3-5PM

WITNESS THE ARTICULATION OF SCOPE IN THE LOCAL CONTEXT.

MATT TAECKER WILL GIVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION AND THEN LEAD A WALKING TOUR OF DOWNTOWN. THE WALK WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A CHANCE TO CHAT INFORMALLY WITH MATT OVER SOME DOWNTOWN CUISINE.

INFO ABOUT THE DAP: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/contentdisplay.aspx?id=832.

PLEASE RSVP TO calbussa@gmail.com WITH YOUR NAME AND PHONE NUMBER IF YOU'D LIKE TO ATTEND. THANK YOU.

NATHAN MACHIDA

PRESIDENT, BERKELEY URBAN STUDIES STUDENT ASSOCIATION (BUSSA)

CALBUSSA@GMAIL.COM

BUSSA

FIRST GENERAL MEETING

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

106 WURSTER

7PM

JOIN THE SATELLITE GOURMET FOR SOME:

CHEESEBOARD PIZZA

TAKE SOME FREE TIME (OR ESTABLISH A CONSTRUCT WHERE YOU HAVE FREE TIME) AND TRANSCEND THE IMPERVIOUS WITH US.

FIRM/AGENCY TOURS

WALKING TOURS

EXCURSIONS

AGRICULTURE

SERVICE

CULINARY

FILM

NATHAN MACHIDA

PRESIDENT, BERKELEY URBAN STUDIES STUDENT ASSOCIATION (BUSSA)

CALBUSSA@GMAIL.COM

Due to time conflicts of some key faculty and attendees, we will be postponing the Student/Alumni/Faculty Mixer. The new date is NEXT Thursday, March 13 at 7pm in the Wurster Lobby Area.

Sorry for the late notice and any inconvenience this may cause, but we do still hope you will be there. We'll be serving free dim sum as a thank-you to all those who attend!

As before, faculty and alumni should RSVP to calbussa@gmail.com. No need to RSVP for students.

Please circulate this message among those that were sent the original email.

Thank you!

Hi BUSSA Members/Alumni!

We'd like to invite you all to an exciting Student/Alumni/Faculty Mixer taking place March 6th, 2008 at 7 p.m. in Wurster's first floor lobby.
Refreshments, snacks, and smiles will be provided so please join us as we attempt to bridge the gap between students, alumni, and professors.
Students, this is a great networking opportunity so make sure you come out!
Alumni, if you could please R.S.V.P. by February 29th, 2008 to calbussa@gmail.com.

Hi All,
This will be one of BUSSA's (Berkeley Urban Studies Students Association's)
biggest events of the year. All students welcome! Hope to see you there!

Downtown Berkeley Walking Tour & Presentation
Hosted by Matt Taecker, AICP, Principal Planner for the City of Berkeley's
Downtown Area Plan (DAP)

Friday, November 2, 3-5pm
City of Berkeley Planning Department
2120 Milvia Street, 2nd Floor, Sitka Spruce Conference Room

Matt Taecker will give a brief presentation about the Plan's progress and
vision, and then will lead a walking tour through the Downtown to illustrate
the Plan's goals. The walk will be followed by a chance to chat informally
with Matt over drinks and snacks.

For more information about the DAP:
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/planning/landuse/dap/about.htm.

If you would like to go with BUSSA, meet at 2:15pm at Kroeber Fountain and
we will take a bus down together.

Please RSVP to calbussa@gmail.com with your name and phone number if you'd
like to attend. Thanks! :)

Transportation and Land Use Coalition's 10th Annual Summit
Bay Area Solutions to Global Warming: Cooling the Planet with Walkable
Communities and World Class Transit

Saturday, March 24th
This years summit offers nearly 20 campaign and training sessions:
regional transportation advocacy
making transit oriented development happen
high speed rail
safe streets for bicyclists and pedestrians
effective lobbying

For all the info go to www.transcoalition.org/cal/summit07/summit.html

Call out for volunteers:
Would you like to attend the summit for free (normally $30 at the door)?

Sign up to volunteer at the event by contacting Corrin at
corrin@transcoalition.org

DINNER & A MOVIE WITH BUSSA

Wednesday Nov. 15 @ 6:00 p.m. in Wurster room 314B
Don't be late!

FEATURING
FREE CHEESEBOARD PIZZA

& Showing
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
Info at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/
Starring: Aaron Eckhart and Katie Holmes
Summary:
Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack.


Email the BUSSA officers at CalBussa@gmail.com for more info!

BUSSA'S FIRST GENERAL MEETING OF FALL '06

BUSSA will be having its first general meeting this Thursday, September 14th at 6:30PM in Wurster Hall.

• We will be introducing our officers
• Signing up new members
• Talking about are upcoming events.
• There will be snacks provided.
• Location TBA (Most likely Wurster Hall Room106)
  

We hope to see you there!

Lief Bursell
BUSSA Co-President
CalBussa@gmail.com

WELCOME BACK

FALL SEMESTER 2006

• BUSSA is looking forward to the upcoming semester.
• Many exciting events are planned.
• First General Meeting will be announced soon.
• We will be at CED Movie Night on Wed. August 30th
• We look forward to seeing everyone soon!
  

- BUSSA Officers

Reclaiming Public Space for Livable Cities:

An Evening with

Enrique Peñalosa
Former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia

Monday, June 19, 2006

The Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street
San Francisco



As Mayor of Bogotá, Peñalosa built the world’s premiere
Bus Rapid Transit system and hundreds of kilometers of sidewalks,
bicycle paths, pedestrian streets, greenways, and parks.



5:00-6:00 p.m. Registration & Opening Reception
6:00-7:15 p.m. Presentation, followed by Q & A
7:15-8:00 p.m. Concluding Reception

Tickets: $25-50 suggested donation per person
$15 per student or low-income participant

Wine, beverages and hors d 'oeuvres



Limited space is available for this event and tickets should be purchased in advance.

https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/ITDP-InstituteForTransport/OnlineRegistration.html

or mail a check payable to:

Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
127 West 26th Street, Suite 1002
New York, NY 10001

(please note “Evening with Peñalosa” and ticket quantity in check memo)


Presented by ITDP and:


Photo sources: Juan Camilo Macias, Shreya Gadepalli, PPQ Foundation


https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/ITDP-InstituteForTransport/OnlineRegistration.html




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The Right to the City and the Politics of Space

University of California at Berkeley
The Geballe Room – Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
Friday, April 14 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm) and Saturday, April 15 (9:00 am -- 2:00 pm)

The Breslauer Graduate Student Symposium is an annual conference comprised primarily of U. C. Berkeley graduate students on an internationally relevant theme. The goal of the symposium is to support graduate student research on international issues related to the pursuit of solutions to real-world problems. The symposium was established in 2001, and is made possible by a campus donor in honor of George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of the University of California at Berkeley.

The focus of the 2006 Breslauer Symposium is on the Right to the City and the Politics of Space. This interdisciplinary conference brings together graduate students who are researching struggles for shelter and livelihood, competing claims to land, and politics of space from a range of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. It also seeks to cut across the often-divided analytical and geopolitical domains of First and Third Worlds, bringing together those working within the Global South and those working within the Euro-American context.

We are pleased to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Don Mitchell, Chair of the Geography Department at Syracuse University. Professor Mitchell is well known for his work on the historical production of landscapes as they relate to workers and the working class, the relationship between culture and power, and the production and meaning of public space. His groundbreaking book, The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003), explores the struggles over public space in American cities and the modes of control that have led to the marginalization of the homeless.

The 2006 Breslauer Symposium will take place on Friday, April 14^th and Saturday, April 15^th in The Geballe Room of the Townsend Center for the Humanities, located at 220 Stephens Hall on the University of California at Berkeley Campus. The symposium is free and open to the public.

Thanks to all of you who either attended the last general meeting or came on the BUSSA Berkeley Bike Tour! Both events went really well - and it looks like we will do a bike tour every semester, so anyone who missed out will get another chance in the future!

- BUSSA Officers

Hey BUSSA members!

There will be a general meeting followed by the screening of the award winning documentary Megacities. This will all take place in Wurster room 101 - which has a 12' by 8' projection screen!

BUSSA General Meeting + Movie Night
Thursday, April 6th at 6:30pm
Wurster Hall Room 101

We hope everyone can make it!

Also, we still have room for more people on the Berkeley Bicycle Tour!
The Bike Tour takes place Saturday April 8th, email us if you want more info or if you want to participate!

BERKELEY URBAN STUDIES STUDENT ASSOCIATION
BUSSA OFFICERS
CalBUSSA@gmail.com

Berkeley Urban Studies Student Association
BUSSA/CP-114 Event:
Berkeley Bicycle Tour- Saturday, April 8th at 10:30am

Take a ride around Berkeley on the Bicycle Boulevard. The tour destination will be the Berkeley marina and/or Indian Rock Park – and will finish at the Cheeseboard for lunch. Included will be a discussion of local traffic calming efforts, transportation planning, and citizen activism. We can arrange for bike + helmet rentals for those who do not have them.
(IF YOU NEED A BIKE WE NEED TO KNOW ASAP!!!)

Sign-up by emailing us at <CalBUSSA@gmail.com> Space is limited – so sign up quickly!

Lief Bursell
BUSSA Co-President

If anyone is around Saturday April 1st they should check this out!

Transportation and Land Use Coalition's
9th Annual Summit

NEXT STOP: GREAT COMMUNITIES

Come join over 200 transportation, housing, and smart growth advocates on Saturday, April 1 for the Transportation and Land Use Coalition‚s 9th Annual Summit in downtown Oakland. This is a great event for learning about key issues, honing skills, networking, and plugging into the movement for a sustainable and socially just Bay Area.

Admission is going fast. Pre-registration is just $10 but spaces are filling up quickly.

Learn more and register at www.transcoalition.org .
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WHEN
Saturday, April 1, 2006
9:30 AM - 2:30 PM (optional sessions from 2:30-3:45 PM)

WHERE
First Unitarian Church
685 14th St. (corner of Castro St.)
Downtown Oakland (near 12th St. BART and many AC Transit lines)
FREE Valet Bike Parking provided by East Bay Bicycle Coalition

COST
$10 in advance (includes breakfast, lunch, and materials)
Pre-registration is required, as space is limited.
If space is available, $20 at the door.

REGISTER TODAY!
Use the easy online registration form, and pay by check or credit card, at www.transcoalition.org .

SESSIONS

• Communicating Smart Growth (Lesson One: Don't Say Smart Growth)
• Efficient Land Use: Understanding the Benefits
• Walking Tour of Old Oakland
• Transportation Funding: What's Hot in 2006
• Can We Turn the Region Around?
• There Goes the Neighbor: Combating Displacement of Existing Residents
• Walkable Streets Toolkit
• Parking that Promotes Sustainability
• From Transit Villages to Ecocities, Reshaping the City for Long-Term Sustainability
• Transportation Justice: Celebrating Success, Looking Ahead
• Wheels of Change: Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Movements
• How to Choose: Comparing Transportation Modes
• Transportation 101: A Primer
• And more!
  

LEARN MORE
Learn more about the Summit and the sessions online at www.transcoalition.org Or call (510) 740-3150 and ask for Hoang, Marisol or Stuart. Or email summit@transcoalition.org.