Tuesday 13 January 2015

2015 Mumford Lecture: Rebecca Solnit

Mark your calendars: Thursday, April 2 is the 2015 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism, to be given by writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit. The 11th annual lecture is presented by the Graduate Program in Urban Design, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York (CCNY), and will be held in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall at CCNY, Convent Hall at 138th Street. It's free, open to the public, and no reservations are necessary.



Previous Lewis Mumford Lectures:
2014 - Theaster Gates: "Place Over Time"
2013 - Marshall Berman: "Emerging from the Ruins"
2012 - Janette Sadik-Khan: "It's Not Impossible To Change a City" (audio podcast available)
2011 - Richard Sennett: "The Edge: Borders and Boundaries in the City" (video archive available)
2010 - No lecture
2009 - Paul Auster: "City of Words"
2008 - David Harvey: "The Right to the City" (audio podcast available)
2007 - Amartya Sen: "The Urbanity of Calcutta" (audio podcast available)
2006 - Enrique PeƱalosa: "A New Urban Paradigm: Building a Just and Sustainable Metropolis"
2005 - Mike Davis: "Planet of Slums"
2004 - Jane Jacobs

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