Justice, urbanism, and anti-urbanism.
BUILDING CITIES OF CHOICE AND JUSTICE.
At this conversation, we draw conclusions on how to plan, design, and advocate for cities that are places of choice and of justice. We discuss the forces that help and hinder us in this quest.
Wednesday, May 05 at 7.30pm
Photo credits : EEJCC
Watch the conversation here.
conversationalists
Steven Conn
Steven Conn is the W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Before joining the faculty at Miami he was a professor in the history department at Ohio State where he co-founded Origins and founded the Public History Initiative. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 after graduating from Yale University in 1987.
Prof. Conn is a specialist in American cultural and intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries, urban history and public history. He is the author of 5 books and the editor of 2 more including most recently Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 2014) which was named a Top Ten book for 2015 by Planetizen. He is currently working on two book projects. The first is a history of American business schools which examines their contentious relationship to the rest of higher education; the second is a study of mid-20th century liberalism and the idea of "empathy" fostered by a number of writers, academics and others.
Prof. Conn has delivered talks all over the United States, at Kings College, Cambridge, Nanjing University, China, and Sydney, Australia. He has also taught courses on American history in Xi'an China and at the American Studies Center in Warsaw, Poland. Prof Conn has published dozens of essays in newspapers like the Columbus Dispatch, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Conn has been the recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society, The Library Company, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Emily Talen
Emily Talen is professor of urbanism at the University of Chicago. Her research is devoted to urban design and the relationship between the built environment and social equity. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014–15), and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Her work has been published with top academic presses and have attracted close to 10,000 citations listed on Google Scholar.
Her books include New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures, Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods, Urban Design Reclaimed: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies for Planners, and City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form. Her most recent book is Neighborhood (Oxford University Press, 2018). She is also the editor of several volumes, the most recent of which is Retrofitting Sprawl: Addressing 70 Years of Failed Urban Form.
Talen received a PhD in urban geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also possesses a master's degree in city and regional planning from the Ohio State University. Previously, she was a faculty member in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a professional planner in Santa Barbara and Columbus, Ohio.
Host: Conrad Kickert
Dr. Conrad Kickert has a background in urbanism and architecture from the TU Delft (Netherlands) and holds a PhD in architecture from the University of Michigan. He has worked as an urban researcher and designer for various design offices, property developers and non-profit organizations in The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. He is an urban design scholar whose research focuses on urban morphology, downtown revitalization and the bridge between urban form, configuration and retail economics.
Dr. Kickert has authored award-winning articles and books on these topics, including articles for the Journal of Urban Studies and the London School of Economics, an Oxford University bibliography, the recent monograph Dream City - Creation, Destruction and Reinvention in Downtown Detroit with MIT Press and an upcoming book on frontages with Routledge. His work has been supported by a.o. the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ax:son Johnson Foundation, UBER and the Mellon Foundation. He regularly discusses urban topics at universities, debates and news venues across the globe.