The next Harvard Alumni Architectural and Urban Society (HAAUS) book event and panel discussion will take place on April 16th. The evening’s conversation will be focused on the history of urban transformation and gentrification in late 20th century New York City.
Brian Goldstein, assistant professor of architectural history at Swarthmore College and author of The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem, and Suleiman Osman, associate professor of American Studies at George Washington University and author of The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York, will present some of the research that went into their publications and join in conversation with Lizabeth Cohen, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the Department of History at Harvard University. The discussion will be followed by a reception with complimentary drinks and light snacks.
Please follow the link below for more information and registration:
http://www.haaus.org/blog/2018/3/19/urban-transformation-and-gentrification-in-new-york-city