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SUMMARY:Nov 9-10 – Workshop Series on U.S. Urban History and Urban Studies with Professor Alan Lessoff
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Workshop Series
U.S. Urban History and Urban Studies
Nov 9-10, 2026
Workshop SessionNov 9, 4-6 pm, 02.102 (Philo II, Jakob-Welder-Weg 20)This
workshop session will endeavor to place U.S. arguments over urban sprawl
within transnational trends in and debates over urban form.
Guest LectureNov 10, 12-2 pm, P 1 (Philosophicum, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18)The
lecture will review the long history of the suburb as the location of the
American dream, the place that nurtures and the space that sustains the
middle-class, consumer society of American myth and aspiration.
Colloquium SessionNov 10, 2-4 pm, kl. Bibl. 01-618 (Philosophicum,
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18)The colloquium will connect current U.S. debates over
housing affordability and other obstacles to the middle-class aspiration to
long-standing arguments over the suburbs and what they are meant to
accomplish.
Alan Lessoff is University Professor of History at Illinois State
University. An authority on U.S. and comparative urban history, he is the
author, co-author, or editor of six books, most recently Where Texas Meets
the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History (Austin, 2015). From 2004 to 2014,
he edited the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His spring
2016 Obama fellowship began an ongoing collaboration with the Obama
Institute. More recently, he was a summer guest researcher from 2021 to
2024 with History of Architecture and Urban Planning program at the TU
Delft in the Netherlands, engaged with a project on port cities and
petroleumscapes.
Contact/RegistrationIf you are interested in attending any or all of the
sessions and would like access to the preparatory reading materials, please
contact: Ylva Kreye (kreyeylv@uni-mainz.de)
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