Lecture: The Ferguson Moment

Date/Time:	Wednesday, 08 Oct 2014 at 5:30 pm
Location:	Kocimski Auditorium (Room 101), College of Design
Cost:	Free
URL:	http://www.design.iastate.edu/news/10/1/...om_lecture
Contact:	Jane Rongerude
Phone:	515-294-5289
Channel:	College of Design
Categories:	Lectures
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"The Ferguson Moment: Poverty, Politics and Planning in the Suburbs of St. Louis," Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri, St. Louis. Reception precedes the lecture at 5 p.m., small group discussions on issues of race and class will be led by college multicultural liaisons following the lecture.

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Swanstrom is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Among more than two dozen recent scholarly articles are publications on the prospects for alliances between central cities and distressed suburbs, economic segregation among municipalities, different ways of measuring poverty, and the development of a regional greenway in St. Louis.

Swanstrom's lecture is part of the college's 2014-15 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design lecture series.