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Douglas Rae was featured on KCPT-Channel 19's "Kansas City Week in Review", Friday, Feb. 11 at 7:30pm and Sunday, Feb. 13 at 11:00am.

ON THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
the Kansas City Design Center presented
Re-imagining the Public Realm, featuring Douglas W. Rae, Ely Professor of Organization and Management & Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Prof. Rae is a specialist in the political economy of cities, electoral politics, political ideology, and power relations. A political scientist and member of the Yale University faculty since 1967, he took leave in 1990 and 1991 to serve as chief administrative officer of the City of New Haven, Conn.

Professor Rae is consulted frequently by the media for his views on urban development, reversing urban poverty, and regionalization. His latest book, City: Urbanism and Its End (Yale University Press, 2003), explores the decline of the classical American downtown and argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized.

Hardcover copies of City: Urbanism and Its End are available for purchase from the Kansas City Design Center ($30; 10% discount for KCDC Members). Contact the KCDC at 816/421-1539x110 or programs@kcdesigncenter.org to order (Mastercard/VISA, cash or personal checks accepted).

As part of Prof. Rae's visit to Kansas City, the Design Center also hosted an invitation-only Leadership Forum with Prof. Rae the morning of Friday, February 11. The Forum is a seminar-format program and offers public- and private-sector leaders an opportunity for more direct and informal dialogue with leading experts in the fields of architecture, planning, and urban design.