You are invited to the Brown Bag Lecture Series
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
12 noon to 1 p.m
THE LIFE, DEATH AND REBIRTH OF SOUTHWEST URBANISM
Chris Wilson
2006 Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Ecologists hold that a healthy earth needs biological diversity. New Urbanism, Smart Growth advocates and activist Latino planners similarly embrace variety in building and neighborhood types to encourage diversity in households and lifestyles, as increasing investments in mass transit and urban revitalization help make this a real alternative to suburbia. Chris Wilson will describe how his current manuscript project will bring the history pedestrian-centered Southwestern cities to life, and will highlight how a new generation of designers an developers, immigrants and urban pioneers are revitalizing these forms to create a more compact and varied city of the future.
Chris Wilson is the J. B. Jackson Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. He will be in residence at the Clements Center for the fall of 2006 working on his manuscript for publication.
Los Angeles, April 1942, Russell Lee. FSA-OWI
Collection, Library of Congress.
In the Texana Room, DeGolyer Library
(6404 Hilltop Ln. & McFarlin Blvd)
Bring your own brown bag lunch!
For more information or if you need special accommodations, please call 214-768-3684 or email swcenter@smu.edu.
Official Website: http://smu.edu/swcenter/WilsonBB.htm