[Urban-Media] [urban-media] American Sprawl

[eric lewis beverley]

All~

Just received this announcement, thought it might be of interest in  
connection with our recent examinations of global suburbias.

elb


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>> 2006-2007 Dean's Lecture Series
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>> A Field Guide to Sprawl:
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>> How to Read Everyday American Landscapes
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>> Dolores Hayden
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>> Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies, Yale  
>> University
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>> Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences,  
>> Stanford University
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>> Monday, November 20, 2006
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>> 4:00 PM
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>> Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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>> Radcliffe Gymnasium
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>> 10 Garden Street
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>> Cambridge, Massachusetts
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>> This event is free and open to the public.
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>> Dolores Hayden, noted urban historian and architect, is a unique  
>> and insightful guide to the American metropolitan landscape.  
>> According to Hayden, built space expresses a society’s material  
>> priorities. Most Americans inhabit complex metropolitan landscapes  
>> layered with tracts, strip malls, office parks, and highways, but  
>> very few can decode the landscapes’ physical forms or explain  
>> their economic origins. In this lecture, Hayden will define seven  
>> characteristic suburban landscapes created between 1820 and 2000.  
>> She will address how federal subsidies for real estate development  
>> support the last three of these patterns, encouraging sprawl  
>> beginning in the 1930s.
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>> Hayden is professor of architecture, urbanism, and American  
>> studies at Yale, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies  
>> in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. She is the author of six  
>> books about the cultural and political history of American built  
>> environments, her latest being A Field Guide to Sprawl (Norton,  
>> 2004), a “devil’s dictionary” of bad building patterns. Her other  
>> publications include Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban  
>> Growth, 1820–2000 (Pantheon, 2003), The Power of Place: Urban  
>> Landscapes as Public History (MIT Press, 1995), and The Grand  
>> Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American  
>> Homes, Neighborhoods and Cities (MIT Press, 1981). Hayden is also  
>> an award-winning poet whose works have been published in the Yale  
>> Review, Kenyon Review, and Southwest Review. Her most recent  
>> collection is American Yard (WordTech Communications, 2004).
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>> Since 1973, Hayden has held academic appointments in architecture,  
>> landscape architecture, urban planning, and American studies in a  
>> teaching career that has spanned the Massachusetts Institute of  
>> Technology, University of California at Berkeley, and University  
>> of California at Los Angeles, as well as Yale. She earned her  
>> professional degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate  
>> School of Design; she was a Bunting fellow at Radcliffe in 1976– 
>> 1977; and she received the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal for  
>> outstanding contributions to her profession in 1991.
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>> This is the third in the 2006-2007 Dean's Lecture Series.  The  
>> final lecture will be:
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>> Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 4 PM
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>> Rita Colwell, University of Maryland, College Park; Johns Hopkins  
>> University Bloomberg School of Public Health; US Canon Life  
>> Sciences, Inc.
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>> "Oceans, Climate, Biodiversity, and Human Health: The Cholera  
>> Paradigm"
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>> For more information, please call 617-495-8600 or visit  
>> www.radcliffe.edu.
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>> pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines,  
>> professions, and creative arts.  Within this broad purpose, the  
>> Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women,  
>> gender, and society.
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