“Social, Spatial, and Economic Transformations in Deindustrializing Cities”

Pitt's Center for Social and Urban Research's (UCSUR’s) Brown Bag Urban Research Seminar Series Continues Friday, February 22^ndwith Tracy Neumann

“Social, Spatial, and Economic Transformations in Deindustrializing Cities”

Noon-1:15 PM, UCSUR’s 1^st Floor Conference Room, 3343 Forbes Ave.

Please join us, as Dr. Neumann will discuss urban redevelopment in Pittsburgh and Hamilton, Ontario, as a model of the transition from industrial to post-industrial cities in advanced capitalist countries after World War II. She will discuss the mutual relationship between post-industrial place-making and neoliberal urbanism. Her talk will also focus on the structure of public-private partnerships, the marginalization of blue-collar workers in civic life, and the physical redevelopment of Pittsburgh.

Tracy Neumann, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of History at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her research explores 20th century U.S. social and political history, comparative urban history, policy history, and transnational and global approaches to U.S. history. She is currently completing a book about the post-industrial transformation of North American cities and the emergence of neoliberal urbanism in the late twentieth century.

RSVP: pncis@pitt.edu

View the remaining events on our full 2012-13 Brown Bag schedule, including Claudia Coulton this Friday,  Feb. 15.             

http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/urban_brownbag2_2013_winter.php

UCSUR is located across Forbes Ave. from Magee-Women’s Hospital in Oakland