Sustaining & Envisioning the Global City:
Urban Space, Architecture, &
Infrastructure in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Convener:
Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Assoc. Prof., Architecture
Faculty Participants:
Grant Arndt, Asst. Prof., Anthropology
Carlton Basmajian, Asst. Prof., Community and Regional Planning
Marwan Ghandour, Assoc. Dean of College of Design, Prof., Architecture
Lynn Paxson, Prof., Architecture
Public Space and Urban Development are topics of interest to scholars
from diverse fields including architecture, history, regional and community
planning, anthropology, and communicative and literary discourse amongst
others. Scholars who wish to understand the topic comparatively and across
disciplines have looked at issues of development, infrastructure and the
politics of urbanization. This research cluster at ISU includes faculty
working in diverse cultural and global contexts, bringing together a variety
of sub-disciplinary approaches from industrial housing in Eastern Europe to
the problems of urban reconstruction in the Middle East to contemporary
American cultural identity and environmental formation. As the group
expands, the geographic coverage and methodological diversity will extend
into other global regions and academic disciplines.
