School of Architecture Lecture Series: Elizabeth Keslacy, "Black Agency in the City: Post-Urban Renewal Landscapes in the American Rust Belt"

This Thursday at 2pm in Hancock 100, Assistant Professor Elizabeth Keslacy will be conducting her lecture, “Black Agency in the City: Post-Urban Renewal Landscapes in the American Rust Belt"

Keslacy’s lecture explores the fantastical Brutalist urban landscapes created by the first Black mayors of major American cities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The talk will examine how and why they confronted the racial, economic, and spatial violence of urban renewal in part through investment in leisure-oriented landscapes.

Elizabeth Keslacy is an architectural historian and design educator whose work deals with postwar and postmodern architecture and urbanism, the museology of design, and the discipline’s intellectual history.

Keslacy has taught design and history at the University of Michigan, Lawrence Technological University, Kendall College of Art and Design, and most recently at Miami University of Ohio.