April 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m. Tarble Arts Center
Other Lecture Series Speaker:
Dr. Richard Longstreth is a Professor of American Civilization and the director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His presentation will be entitled, “Moving On: The Evolving Landscape of the Central United States.” He received his Ph.D. in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked in the Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission and taught at Kansas State University before joining the George Washington faculty in 1983.
He has written extensively on the transformation of the twentieth-century American landscape, most recently in The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. Find out more about this book by visiting: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=4324.
Learn more about another of Dr. Longstreth's publications, City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, by clicking here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=7073.
