Seminars

The City

Year Founded 1962

Seminar # 459A

StatusActive

This seminar undertakes a wide-ranging consideration of the city—its history, functions, problems, and glories. Sessions are devoted to urban cultural and social history, and to the meaning of physical form and landscape of both American and world-wide cities. The heterogeneous nature of the seminar’s membership is reflected in the variety of subjects that the meetings address.

Chair/s

Mary Rocco

mrocco@barnard.edu

Rapporteur/s

Elizabeth Milagros Alvarez

ema2200@columbia.edu

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

11
Nov

November 11, 20265:30 pm - 7:15 pm

Faculty House

Schools for Sale: Disinvestment, Dispossession, and School Building Reuse in Philadelphia

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Speaker/s

Julia McWilliams, University of Pennsylvania

Ariel H. Bierbaum, University of Maryland

Amy J. Bach, University of Texas El Paso

Elaine Simon, Retired Director of Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

School districts across the United States have closed thousands of schools since 2000 to cope with chronic underfunding and budget crises, declining enrollment, and poorly maintained buildings. Our knowledge about school closures has focused on battles over closure decision-making and the impacts of closing schools on communities of color in the immediate aftermath of these decisions. But what of the large, sometimes magisterial, formerly public spaces once at the center of community life? How do these now vacant buildings change daily life in the surrounding neighborhood?

Scheduled

13
Apr

April 13, 20275:30 pm - 7:15 pm

Faculty House

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