[Urbanstudy] ESG Talk Series: American Cities over the last Fifty Years, Role of Immigration and Migration in US History by Harry Schwartz

[ESG VSNL India]

Environment Support Group®  

Invites you for a talk on
 
American Cities over the last Fifty Years
Role of Immigration and Migration in US History

by

Harry Schwartz
Visiting Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Faculty, 'Cities in 
the 21st Century' course of the International Honors Programme
 
Time      : Wednesday, 14th March 2007, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Venue    : ESG Office (Address and Map provided below)


A Brief Note:

The year 2007 will witness for the first time in the history of the 
human race a major demographic transition:  more people will live in 
cities than in rural areas.  The consequences of such a dramatic shift 
in human populations is not clearly appreciated at all.  While some 
positive impacts expectedly is a greater coverage of the world's 
population with urban services and infrastructural facilities, the 
negative consequences is likely to be the deepening  disparity in access 
to resources and opportunities within urban populations.  

No other part of the world has witnessed such a dramatic transition in 
population than the American continent.  In fact, the history of 
urbanisation in the 20th century has been dominated by the growth of 
American cities as economic, political and industrial powerhouses, and 
as major centres for education and culture.

Americans are constantly on the move and immigration has been a major 
factor in the growth of American cities and spread of urban 
populations.  Regional migration, such as the great black migration from 
south to north and east to west movement along with redistribution of 
metropolitan population, i.e. suburbanisation since WW II, have all 
strongly influenced urban forms and planning traditions.  These 
processes have strongly influenced planning and management of urban 
areas world over and India is no exception.  

Providing an historical overview of the growth of American cities since 
WW II, the speaker will highlight significant trends and issues in 
urbanising populations, with a special focus on immigrants into the 
United States, especially the role of Indian immigrants. As India 
emerges as a major region for the transition of populations from the 
rural to the urban in a rapidly globalising world, there are many 
lessons to be learnt from the American experience.



About the Speaker:


As a founding partner in an urban planning firm and more recently as an 
independent consultant, Harry Schwartz has worked on a wide range of 
projects and studies concerned with economic development, housing, 
social and health services, transportation and neighborhood planning. He 
established a non-profit corporation that focuses on retaining 
manufacturing and training workers and entrepreneurs in New York City, 
and he serves on the boards of organizations in New York that build 
industrial space and affordable housing. Mr. Schwartz has taught 
planning, public policy and urban history at Columbia University, 
Washington University in St. Louis, Pratt Institute and other 
universities and is a Visiting Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. 
He has lectured on urban planning in India, China, Poland and other 
countries. He received a Master of City Planning from the University of 
Pennsylvania and a Fulbright grant for study in Italy.


PS:  To better accommodate your seating needs, kindly confirm in advance 
if you will attend this talk.  Thank you

Environment Support Group
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Map to ESG in the enclosed file.

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