Location

Tipping Points in Urban Change
Modern Perspectives on Agents of Urbanization
Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

CWRU Department of History and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities present:

Tipping Points in Urban Change

This day-long symposium will consider the similarities and differences in the histories of urban modernization in cities during the late 19th through the early 21st century—with a look at global cities now under construction or in the planning stages. The particular focus will be on the composition of elites, local versus international economic and political agendas, and the science and technologies involved. Papers will assess the modernity of the Panama Canal at the turn of the century, the urban-centered and industrial-based City of Detroit in the 1920s-1960s, and contemporary developments in Seoul.

Presenters:

• Marixa Lasso, Case Western Reserve University
  Defining Modernity: Panama Canal 1:00 – 1:35 p.m.
• Robert Fishman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Motor City: The Rise and Fall of Detroit 1:40 – 2:15 p.m.
• Peter G. Rowe, Harvard University
  Turning Points: Modern Seoul 2:20 –2:55

Roundtable Discussion
Discussant: Robert H. Kargon
The Johns Hopkins University
3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

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