Session Details

Friday, 28 December

312. Cities and Public Spaces: Urban Ways of Being

3:30–4:45 p.m., Stetson E, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association

Presiding: Lisa L. Tyler, Sinclair Community Coll., OH

1. “When Public Space Is Your Private Space: Homelessness, Urban Conflicts, and Public Policy,” John N. Allen, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll., WI

2. “Mall as Monument: The Elision of Class in Spaces of Modern Consumption and Habitation,” Andrew Urban, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown

3. “City as Contested Space: Chinatown Family and Native Speaker,” Xiaojing Zhou, Univ. of the Pacific

4. “Brooklyn Bridge and the ‘Labyrinthine Mouths of History,’” Marcela M. Sulak, American Univ.

Respondent: George Louis Scheper, Community Coll. of Baltimore County, MD

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