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Max Page
Re-Imagining the Public Realm
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Gladys Feld Helzberg Auditorium
Kansas City Public Library
Please join the Kansas City Design Center as we present the concluding lecture in our annual series, Re-Imagining the Public Realm.
On Tuesday, May 24, architectural historian Max Page will examine America's fascination with cities -- as well as their destruction, re-design and re-invention -- and what this tells us about future opportunities to strengthen the public realm.
Our previous lectures have featured an impressive array of nationally-acclaimed urbanists -- two city planners, an architectural critic, and a distinguished economist. Together, these speakers have built a compelling intellectual perspective on the necessity of effective public planning and strong civic design to strengthen the economic potential, social vitality, authenticity and character of Kansas City's built environment.
About Max Page
Max Page is an accomplished historian who writes for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and the popular uses of history. He serves as Associate Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, where he teaches urban, architectural, and public history.
Prof. Page is a recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, a highly-coveted award intended to assist research and artistic creation in the natural and social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. His most recent book, The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction, will be published next year by Yale University Press.
He is also the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians for the best book on architecture and urbanism. He served as co-editor (with Steven Conn) of Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), as well as the co-editor (with Randall Mason) of Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (Routledge, 2003).