Ever since the first awareness of global warming, one of the fastest growing US metropolitan areas has been Houston, Texas, capital of the global oil economy. Beyond oil, what is there to be learned about the history of climate change from the perspective of Houston? Drawing from a new archive, the talk focuses upon the rise during the 1970s and after of the Houston-based Hines Real Estate company, one of the largest real estate development firms in the world.
Registration is required for this event. Lunch will be provided.
Jonathan Levy is the James Westfall Thompson Professor in the Department of History and Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is a historian of the economy, the United States, and capitalism. His most recent book is Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States , which is a history of American economic life from British colonial settlement through the Great Recession. The book is also a single-volume history of the United States.
Bruno Carvalho is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
As our planet becomes increasingly urban, this series seeks to expand our understanding of cities and urbanization across sites and scales. The Urban Conversations aim in particular to link humanistic approaches with spatial investigations. We host public talks, and provide a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress with an interdisciplinary community, in a conversational format. Urban Conversations is chaired by Bruno Carvalho and Daniel Agbiboa, and is co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.
See also: Urban Conversations, Public
LOCATION:Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133) STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20241024T160000Z DTEND:20241024T160000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR