Urban Absorption in New Bedford: The Reuse of Abandoned
Buildings and Vacant Land Since 1929 |Category:||College Of
Visual And Performing Arts| |Date & Time:|| Thursday ,
02/07/2013 from 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM |Location:||UMass Dartmouth
- Star Store [map it]*| |Sponsored by:||Art History Department -
UMassD| Justin Hollander, PhD, AICP, is an Assistant Professor
of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts
University and a Research Scientist at the George Perkins Marsh
Institute at Clark University. He is the author of "Sunburnt
Cities: The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in
the American Sunbelt" (Routledge, 2011) and two other books
examining the challenges of planning for post-industrial,
shrinking cities will lecture on the reuse of abandoned
buildings and vacant lands in urban settings. In the face of
substantial economic decline over the last eight decades, New
Bedford has changed in many ways. The most astounding is how the
physical form of the city has shifted in the wake of