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September 19, 2012

CONTEST: The Bodly Head/ Financial Times Competition

Filed under: Contests

The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize aims to attract the best talent in long-form essay writing. Open to writers aged 18 to 35, the competition prize is £1,000, an e-publication with Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House UK, and a mentoring session with a Bodley Head or FT writer.

In addition to one winner, four runners-up will be involved in a separate e-publication with the winning essay.

The deadline for entries is November 18, 2012 (midnight GMT).

For Details: http://on.ft.com/R0lcDT

EVENT: Creating Change with Spofford-Market with speaker Marjora Carter

Filed under: Other Schools, Speakers, Speeches, Columbia Events

Harness: Creating Change with Spofford-Market

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium,
Columbia University GSAPP
#wood091912

Majora Carter, Majora Carter Group

Leading environmental activist and MacArthur Fellow Majora Carter discusses the potentials of gentrification—like forces of wind, solar, and fire—to be harnessed for public good. In particular, how to “create the economic diversity in poor communities that encourages more successful people to stay, poor people to have more hope, and newcomers to feel great about what they are contributing to,” in relation to a proposed transformation of the Bridges Juvenile Center in the Spofford Avenue Neighborhood of the South Bronx. “Concentrated poverty diminishes hope and possibility for those who can’t escape,” Carter notes. “How do we harness the power of gentrification to create better communities with more potential for everyone?

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