UNCC - SoA Spring Lecture Series: Cities After the End of Cities
February 03, 2010 - February 03, 2010
05:00 - 06:30 PM
Location: UNCC - Storrs Hall 110
Speaker: Robert Fishman, University of Michigan
Details:
Earn 2 AIA Continuing Education Credits. Free and open to the public.

Robert Fishman is Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is a nationally recognized expert in urban history, urban policy, and planning. He has authored several books regarded as seminal texts on the history of cities and urbanism including Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987) and Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier (1977). His most recent work is on "ex-urbs."

Professor Fishman’s lecture will explore the radical pluralism of urban forms unknown in previous eras. Traditional cities end once necessary divisions between city and countryside cease to exist. But cities continue to evolve, not as a necessity, Fishman argues, but increasingly as a choice.