Obermann Center for Advanced Studies The University of Iowa

Planning as Storytelling: Sustaining America’s Cities

June 15 - 17, 2000

Schedule

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Thursday (June 15)

9:00 - 9:30

Coffee and greetings

9:30 - 10:00

Introductions: Barbara Eckstein, Jim Throgmorton

10:00 - 11:00

Ken Reardon (social justice activist-researcher)

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:15

Joe Barthel (private investigator)

12:15 - 1:45

Lunch

1:45 - 2:45

Larry Wilson (U of Iowa urban designer/campus planner)

2:45 - 3:00

Break

3:00 - 4:00

Cross-disciplinary dialogue

4:00 - 5:30

Slide presentation and field trip to "The Peninsula" (Jeff Davidson, Asst. Director of the Iowa City Dept of Planning and Community Development)

Friday (June 16)

9:00 - 9:15

Coffee and Greetings

9:15 - 10:15

Carlo Rotella (American Studies literary critic)

10:15 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 11:30

Liz Christiansen (Iowa Department of Natural Resources)

11:30 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:30

Bob Beauregard (Urban Planning scholar)

2:30 - 2:45

Break

2:45 - 4:15

Seymour Mandelbaum (Urban History scholar)

4:15 - 4:30

Break

4:30 - 5:15

Cross-disciplinary dialogue

5:30 - 7:30

Reception (North Room, 181 Iowa Memorial Union)

Saturday (June 17)

9:00 - 9:15

Coffee and Greetings

9:15 - 10:45

Leonie Sandercock (Urban Planning theorist and historian)

10:45 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Ed Soja (Geography scholar)

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch

2:00 - 3:45

Cross-disciplinary dialogue

3:45 - 4:00

Break

4:00 - 4:30

Partings: Barbara Eckstein and Jim Throgmorton

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