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Segregation by Design

by PoJung

The new book Segregation by Design: Conversations and Calls for Action in St. Louis is a collection of conversations and essays that discusses racial segregation in American cities using St. Louis as a point of departure. The purpose of the book is to deepen our understanding of the causes and consequences of segregation in America as well as to explore potential mitigation strategies. While an introduction, timeline and historical overview frame the subject, the focus of the volume in nine topic-specific conversations that are each contextualized by a photograph, an editors’ chapter note and an essay written by a respected current or former St. Louisan. The essayists respond to the conversations by proposing innovative policy and design tactics from their unique professional or academic perspectives The intent of Segregation by Design, therefore, is not so much to provide original research on segregation, but rather to offer a provocative collection of insightful trans-disciplinary reflections on the experience of segregation in American cities and how it might be mitigated.
PRESENTATION AND PANEL PARTICIPANTS
Editors
Assistant Professor Catalina Freixas, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Professor Emeritus Mark Abbott (PhD), Harris Stowe State University in St. Louis
Contributing Essayists
Eric Mumford (PhD), Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis
Rosalind Williams (MUP), Director of Community Development, University City, MO
Jasmin Aber (R.A. Architect-Germany), Director CEL Center for Architecture + Design StL
“Segregation by Design” was made possible through a grant from The Divided City – an urban humanities initiative at Washington University in St. Louis funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Divided City initiative is a joint project of the Center for the Humanities and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, College  and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.
WHEN
Monday, February 4, 2019
5:45 pm – 8:30 pmWHERE
CEL @ Kranzberg Arts Center – Studio
501 N. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63103
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