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Session I, Keynotes:
The History of the History of the Built
Environment
Lizabeth Cohen,
Conference Introduction
(download pdf)
Margaret Crawford, CoChair
Robert Fishman, “Site
Reading: How Urban History Learned to See”
Dell Upton, “Gehryism:
American Architecture
and the Cultural Authority of Art”
Gwendolyn Wright,
“The One and the Many:
Debates about Cultural History”
Session
II:
Reconsidering Race in the Built Environment
Ellen Stroud,
Chair
Dianne Harris,
“Little White Houses:
Critical Race Theory and the Interpretation of Ordinary Dwellings in the
United States, 1945-60”
Jeffrey Melnick,
“Project Culture:
The Popular Arts of Public Housing”
Wendell Pritchett,
“From Theory to Practice: Race, Property Values and Suburban America in the Post-War Years”
Eric Avila,
comments (download pdf)
Mary Corbin Sies, comments
(download pdf)
Session III:
Thinking Comparatively about
the American Built Environment
Alice Friedman, Chair
Jeffry Diefendorf,
“I Love That City,
But Which City?:
Urban Change and Urban Identity In Basel, Boston, and Cologne”
Nancy Stieber, “Autobiographies
and Self-Portraits of the City: Comparative Sites of Urban Representation”
Despina Stratigakos,
“Transnational Comparisons
of
Women as Urban Builders”
Zeynep Celik, comments
are not currently available
Steven Nelson, comments are not
currently available
Session IV:
Going Public with the Built Environment
Mary Lum,Chair
Daniel Bluestone,
“From Bungalows
to Blasted Landscapes: Preservation’s Politics of Place”
Dolores Hayden,
“Contested
Landscapes”
Camilo José
Vergara, “Images As a Tool of Discovery, The Camden Website”
Eve Blau,
comments (download
pdf)
Paula Lupkin, comments
(download pdf)
Session V, Roundtable:
Where from Here?
The Future of Built Environment Studies
Jane Kamensky,Chair
Daniel Abramson, comments
(download pdf)
Robin Bachin, comments
(download pdf)
Homi Bhabha, comments are not
currently available
Paul Groth, comments
(download pdf)
Greg Hise, comments
(download pdf)
Martha McNamara,
comments
(download pdf)
Anne Whiston Spirn, comments are not currently
available