Coronavirus and the New American Ghost Town
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- About the Professor
Elihu Rubin is an associate professor of architecture and urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture. An interdisciplinary urbanist, his research interests include the built environments of nineteenth and twentieth-century cities; urban pedagogy and research methods; public art and public history; transportation and wayfinding; urban geography; history and theory of city planning; and the social lives of urban space.
Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape was published in June 2012 by Yale University Press and awarded the Kenneth Jackson Prize for best book on an American topic from the Urban History Association and the Lewis Mumford Award for best book from the Society of American City and Regional Planning History.
Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
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HOLC staff members, using data and evaluations organized by local real estate professionals--lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers--in each city, assigned grades to residential neighborhoods that reflected their "mortgage security" that would then be visualized on color-coded maps.
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For a quarter-century, the federal government provided funding for cities large and small to raze "blighted" or "slum" neighborhoods. Though improved housing opportunities was the ostensible goal, over time, cities used federal funds to stimulate commercial and industrial redevelopment. Through these programs, cities displaced hundreds of thousands of families from their homes and neighborhoods. Renewing Inequality visualizes those displacements and urban renewal more generally.
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The NHBA brings together more than ten years of Yale student research on local buildings and it continues to grow. The initial goal was to teach methods in architectural and urban history, but it has become a portal for researchers and citizens alike.
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American Beat is a documentary film group founded in New Haven, Connecticut, by Elihu Rubin and Elena Oxman in 1999.
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Elihu Rubin ’99
5 Sessions
Tuesdays at 6 p.m. eastern
June 9 - July 7, 2020
$300 per person
Limited spaces available
This seminar course tells the story of American ghost towns, from the “Wild West” to the heart of the contemporary “post-industrial” city including a look at how Coronavirus has made ghost towns of today's cities. Learn More.
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Elihu Rubin ’99
Dates
June 4 - 14, 2021
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Sail the mighty Volga River from Moscow to St. Petersburg through the heartland of Russia, stepping ashore in colorful medieval towns.
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Alan Plattus ’76
5 Sessions
Tuesdays at 12 p.m. eastern
July 14 - August 11, 2020
$300 per person
Limited spaces available
This course looks at how New Haven, as a classic New England city, exemplifies the evolution of the American city in response to economic, political, social, cultural, and technological changes over nearly 400 years. Learn More.