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GRADUATE PROGRAM IN URBAN DESIGN OF the CCNY
School of Architecture, Urban
Design and Landscape Architecture is
pleased to announce the fifth annual
LEWIS MUMFORD LECTURE Speaker:
Dr. David Harvey,
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the
CUNY Graduate Center and internationally recognized Social and Urban theorist Professor
Harvey's lecture, titled "The Right to the City," will examine
who gets to exercise this precious right and how. Under capitalism, there has
been a long-standing conflict between A view of cities as centers for profit making
and capital accumulation and ANOTHER THAT SEES THEM as utopian spaces of human
interaction.
While the former has prevailed, Professor Harvey will ask how
the right to the city can be restored to the people. Such questions need to be
addressed by all who seek a more humane and ecologically sensitive urbanism for
the 21st Century, he contends.
Professor Harvey is recognized as the world's
most cited academic geographer. His many books and essays have been prominent
in the development of modern geography as a discipline and his work has contributed
greatly to broad social and political debate. Most recently, he has been credited
with bringing back social class as a serious methodological tool in the critique
of global capitalism, particularly in its neoliberal form.
Born in England
and educated at University of Cambridge, where he earned a Ph.D. in geography
in 1961, Dr, Harvey has been Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY
Graduate Center since 2001. Earlier in the career, he held faculty positions at
The Johns Hopkins University (1969 - 1987 and 1993 - 2001), University of Oxford
(1987 - 1993) and University of Bristol (1961 - 1969).
When he moved from England
to the United Stated to teach at Johns Hopkins, Professor Harvey positioned himself
centrally in the then-emerging field of racial and Marxist geography. He drew
upon the injustice, racism, and exploitation that were visible in Baltimore as
well as the activism around these issues in the early 1970s.
In "Social
Justice and the City" (Edward Arnold Ltd. 1973), he argued that geography
could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and associatED ills. By
2005, the book had been cited over 1,000 times in academic writings and is considered
a significant contribution to Marxian theory WITH ITS CONTENTION that capitalism
annihilates space to ensure its own reproduction.
While at Oxford, Professor
Harvey wrote the bestseller "The Condition of Postmodernity" (Basil
Blackwell 1989), which was a materialist assault on postmodern ideas and arguments.
The "London Independent" named it one of the 50 most important works
of nonfiction published since 1945.
In 2003, he wrote "New Imperialism"
(Oxford University Press), a blistering critique of U.S. military action post-9/11,
in which he argues that the war in Iraq enabled U.S. neoconservatives to divert
attention from the failures of capitalism "at home." One of his newest
works, "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" (Oxford University Press,
2005), argues that the neoliberalized global political economy system benefits
few at the expense of many and creates class distinction through "accumulation
by dispossession."
His other books include: "Explanation in Geography"
(St. Martin's Press 1969), "The Limits to Capital" (University of Chicago
Press 1982), "The Urban Experience" (Basil Blackwell 1989), "Spaces
of Hope" (University of California Press 2000) and "Paris, Capital of
Modernity" (Routledge 2003). In all, Professor Harvey has author or editor
credits on 17 published books.
He also holds honorary doctorates from Roskilde
University (Denmark), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Uppsala University
(Sweden) and The Ohio State University (United States). Other awards Professor
Harvey has received include the Anders Retzius Golf Medal of the Swedish Anthropological
and Geographical Societies, The Patron's Medial of the Royal Geographical Society
(United Kingdom) and France's Vautrin Lud International Prize in Geography. In
2007, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
