1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute
The Built Environment of the American Metropolis: Public and Private Realms, 1900-2000
June 28-July 23, 1999
Directed by Robert Brugmann, Professor of Architecture and Art History
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this institute will explore issues connected with private and public life in the build environment of the American city. Does today's highly decentralized city represent an erosion of traditional urban values or does it merely embody present forms of public life? Do American cities need public policy to provide new public transportation, new forms of public or communal housing, and new urban design solutions? Or are these reform efforts the result of class-based biases and an attempt to turn back the clock to an imaginary golden age? The institute will examine the evidence available and the arguments possible concerning the built form of the American city in the past present, and future. It will use Chicago as the benchmark in a discussion of large cities throughout the country.
Guest Faculty
M. Christine Boyer, Princeton University
Philip Ethington, University of Southern California
Neil Harris, University of Chicago
Delores Hayden, Yale University
Kenneth Jackson, Columbia University
Carl Smith, Northwestern University
Additional Faculty
Burt Bledstein, University of Illinois at Chicago
Howard Decker, Decker Legg Kemp, Chicago
Roberta Feldman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Peter Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tim Samuelson, Chicago Historical Society
Participants
Robin Bachin, History, University of Miami
Peter C. Baldwin, History, DePaul University
Richard Becherer, Architecture, American University of Beirut
Joseph C. Bigott, History and Political Science, Purdue University
Joan Brigham, Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College
Edward Dimendberg, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
Phyllis Ellin, Illinois and Michigan Nat'l Heritage Corridor
Richard Gale, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University
Paula Geyh, English, Southern Illinois University
Mark Hutter, Sociology, Rowan University
Sharon Jessee, English, University of Wisconsin , LaCrosse
Carol A. Kelly, Park Ranger, Statue of Liberty
Ari Kelman
Ruth Eckdish Knack, American Planning Association
Kristin Koptiuch, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University West
Brian Ladd, American Academy
Sharon Meagher, Office of Social Responsibility, The Union Institute
Charlene Mires, History, Villanova University
John R. Mitrano, Sociology, Central Connecticut State University
Eric Paul Mumford, Architecture, Washington University
Julie Nicoletta, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington , Tacoma
David P. Phillips, East Asian Lang. and Literatures Program, Wake Forest University
Diane Shaw, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Veitch, Humanities, The New School for Social Research
Craig Steven Wilder, History, Williams College
Michael Ann Williams, Folk Studies, Western Kentucky University
Stephanie E. Yuhl, Humanities and History, Valparaiso University
