Origins of the Suburban Crisis - April 17, 2019
Dr. Thomas J. Sugrue
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History
Director of the Collaborative on Global Urbanism at New York University
The lecture will trace the history of real estate from the 1920s to the present through the story of Euclid, Ohio — famous for the 1926 Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of zoning — examining restrictive covenants, zoning, federal housing programs, and real estate finance.
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
Date: April 17, 2019
Place: Richardson Memorial, Room 201
Contact: Andy Horowitz, Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University, ahorowitz@tulane.edu