Robert Fishman, Emil Lorch Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Michigan, will present 1808/1908/2008: National Planning for America. As the bicentennial of the 1808 Gallatin Plan for a national system of roadways and canals and the centennial of the 1908 Roosevelt Conservation Plan approach, Fishman will argue for a different interpretation of national planning and how it might be crucial to the future of the United States.

Fishman is the author of Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier and Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia, and is editor of The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy and Michigan Debates on Urbanism, vol. 2: The New Urbanism. He is a past president of the Urban History Association, a past Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and has been a visiting professor at Columbia, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Paris (Nanterre).

The lecture will be available on podcast following the event.
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Location:	1021 Prince Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Alexandria
Price:	free, open to public
Contact:	Heike Mayer heikem@vt.edu (703) 706-8122
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