Category: Seminars

Friday, October 2, 2015 – 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served

“The Emerging Life Course Perspective on Residential Attainment”

Robert Wagmiller, Jr.
Temple University

In recent years urban scholars studying residential attainment have increasing drawn upon ideas and concepts from the life course perspective on human development. In this talk, I will review recent studies of residential attainment using life course concepts and highlight the new insights into residential mobility and racial residential stratification that have emerged from these studies. I will argue that despite these recent advances urban scholars have yet to fully utilize the rich conceptual toolkit that the life course perspective offers. I will propose a more comprehensive life course perspective on residential attainment in this talk, and present preliminary findings from several studies I am currently conducting. These studies show the important effects that residential experiences in childhood have on residential attainment and racial residential stratification.

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“Mutual Housing in the Delaware Valley”

Mobilization for World War II transformed the Delaware River Valley into a giant housing laboratory.  Audubon Park, Bellmawr Park, and Pennypack Woods were built in 1941 as part of a special federal government-Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) program for workers who could not afford home ownership. The three communities functioned as testing grounds for “mutual” or cooperative home ownership and new ideas in community planning, modern architecture, and mass-production building methods.

Kristin M. Szylvian is an Associate Professor of History and Library and Information Science, and Public History graduate program director at  St. John’s University.

Friday, September 4, 2015 – 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Private Dining Room, Campus Center
Lunch will be served

This event is also a book-signing event where books will be available for purchase and the author’s signature. 

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Dr. Katrin B. Anacker, Associate Professor at George Mason’s School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs will discuss her newly released book: 

“The New American Suburb: Poverty, Race, and the Economic Crisis” 

Friday, May 1, 2015 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Private Dining Room, Campus Center
Lunch will be served 

This event is also a book-signing event where books will be available for purchase and the author’s signature. 

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and without problems. However, recent data have shown that there are changing trends among U.S. suburbs. This presentation provides timely analyses of current suburban issues by utilizing recently published data from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey to address key themes including suburban poverty; racial and ethnic change and suburban decline; suburban foreclosures; and suburban policy.

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Please join us for our next CURE seminar:

Regeneration and Inequality in US Post-Industrial Cities

Alan Mallach

senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress in Washington DC

Urban regeneration is a reality in US cities, and during the past 10 to 15 years has spread from coastal cities like Washington DC and San Francisco to the nation’s historically industrial cities, including Baltimore, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, slowing and in some cases reversing decades of population and job loss. At the same time, as these cities have seen renewed growth and redevelopment, they have also become more spatially, economically and racially polarized, as some parts of cities have seen revival but others continued, even accelerated, decline. Based on my ongoing research into the changes in the nation’s post-industrial cities, I will describe the recent trends in these cities, analyze some of the salient forces driving these trends, and offer some thoughts about the challenges they represent for social and public policy.

Friday, February 27, 2015 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served 

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CURE seminars are free and open to the public.  No registration is required. 
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