The 2008 Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism

One of the special things about being at Rutgers, when compared with many of our peer institutions, is the incredible number of intellectual opportunities we have in the region. Princeton, New York and Philly are all a short train ride away. Authors, movie screenings and art exhibits outnumber the free hours we have in the academic year. And there is no way that this blog can keep up with all of the relavent opportunities for our students. But here is another one worth mentioning:

This year's Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism will be given by the well known geography professor, David Harvey. The talk will be on Thursday April 3rd at at 6pm in the Great Hall an CCNY.

Professor Harvey’s lecture, titled “The Right to the City,” will examine who
gets to exercise this precious right and how. Under capitalism, there has been a
long-standing conflict between a view of cities as centers for profit making and
capital accumulation and another that sees them as utopian spaces of human
interaction.

While the former has prevailed, Professor Harvey will ask
how the right to the city can be restored to the people. Such questions need to
be addressed by all who seek a more humane and ecologically sensitive urbanism
for the 21st Century, he contends.