Category: News
Commentary on Camden by CURE affiliated scholar Howard Gilette
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‘Manhattanizing’ Philadelphia could help make Camden the next Brooklyn
COMMENTARY BY HOWARD GILLETTE
Could it simply be a coincidence? Hard on the exciting news that celebrity Iron Chef Jose Garces will soon be serving exquisite dinners priced between $150 and $250 a person pre-performance at the Kimmel Center, we learn of a new tower apartment complex overlooking historic Independence Hall.
For those unlucky enough not to grab a multi-million dollar condo on Rittenhouse Square, developer Tom Scannapieco is offering a second chance at 5th and Walnut. Prices for the 40 new units aren’t public, but Scannapieco’s research assures him that among the 2,000 people in the Philadelphia metropolitan area worth more than $10 million, there are bound to be enough customers to fill the new structure. Certainly, he thinks, the city’s 10-year tax abatement program offers “a very valuable incentive.”
Philadelphia doesn’t project the image of “super luxury” easily. That Quaker frugality so firmly associated with the city may be a thing of the past, but surely these new efforts to cater to the super wealthy must mean something.
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CURE affiliated scholar Lori Minnite testifies in voting rights hearing, again!
Dr. Minnite, Associate Professor DPPA, Rutgers-Camden, was asked by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to submit written testimony to their Wisconsin-Minnesota regional National Commission on Voting Rights Hearing, held on February 25, 2014. See submitted testimony at: https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/newsroom/press_releases?id=0415.
Congrats to Lori for weighing in on court cases and the opportunity to offer her expertise in this important issue!!
Center director Paul Jargowsky cited in IBT news story about the City of Camden
George Galster, CURE seminar and special book signing event: Friday, February 28, 2014
Please join us for our next seminar and book signing event:
Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City
George Galster
Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit
George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. Dr. Galster has held positions at the Universities of: Harvard, Berkeley, North Carolina, Amsterdam, Delft, Glasgow, Mannheim, Oslo, and Western Sydney, among others. He served as Director of Housing Research at the Urban Institute before coming to Wayne State University in 1996. His research has focused on urban neighborhoods and housing markets, exploring how they change and how they change the people who live within them. This has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters and seven books. His latest book is Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City (2012). He has provided housing policy consultations to public officials in Australia, Canada, China, Scotland, and the U.S. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T.
Friday, February 28, 2014
12:15pm – 2pm
Executive Dining Room, Camden
Campus Center
Lunch will be served
book available for purchase at seminar
Detroit is the international icon for a once-thriving industrial powerhouse transformed within half a century into a dysfunctional metropolis. George Galster’s Driving Detroit paints a stunning portrait of Metropolitan Detroit through an eclectic application of urban planning, economics, sociology, political science, geography, history, and psychology. But Driving Detroit is also partly a self portrait, wherein Detroiters paint their own stories through songs, poems, and oral histories. This remarkable mix of scholarly disciplines and media of communication make the book distinctively insightful, accessible, and memorable. Driving Detroit is uniquely powerful because its portrait not only helps the reader clearly see the subject but, more importantly, understand why Metropolitan Detroit’s social, cultural, political, institutional, commercial, and built landscape has been transformed. Though appropriate for graduate and undergraduate courses in urban studies, geography, planning, social sciences and history, the book should be of interest to the general public, both in the U.S. and elsewhere.