[URBANTH-L]ANN: The Resilient City: New York Facing Adversity (NYC)
Angela Jancius
jancius3022 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 19 22:28:52 EDT 2009
"The Resilient City: New York Facing Adversity"
with Kenneth Jackson, Nicholas Bloom, Fred Kameny, and Lisa Keller
Thursday, April 2, 6:30 p.m.
Museum of the City of New York
Urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote in The Death and Life of Great American Cities
that "lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own
regeneration." Join Columbia University professor Kenneth T. Jackson as he
moderates a discussion on New York's resilience over time. He will be joined
by Nicholas Bloom of the New York Institute of Technology and author of
"Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century"
(Pennsylvania Press, 2009); Fred Kameny of Duke University and co-author of
"The Almanac of New York City" (Columbia University Press, 2008); and Lisa
Keller of SUNY Purchase College and author of "Triumph of Order: Democracy
and Public Space in New York and London" (Columbia University Press, 2008).
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
$5 Museum members, seniors, and students
$9 General admission
Order tickets online at www.mcny.org or call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avneue at 104th Street
New York, NY 10029
(212) 534-1672, ext. 3395
Visit the website at http://www.mcny.org/
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