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Post Industrial DIY: Book Talk & Panel Discussion
February 1 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campus of concrete grain elevators in Buffalo. Two monumental train stations, one in Buffalo, the other in Detroit. These once-noble sites have since fallen from their towering grace. As local elected leaders did everything they could to destroy what was left of these places, citizens saw beauty and utility in these industrial ruins and felt compelled to act.
The Penn Institute for Urban Research and the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology invite you to a book talk and panel discussion on Post Industrial DIY: Recovering American Belt Icons, which chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy these architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt.
Join the author Daniel Campo, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning at Morgan State University and Weitzman alumnus in discussion with Eugénie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education; Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research; Catherine Seavitt, Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture; and Fritz Steiner, Dean and Paley Professor.