CHASS Annual Theme Event Lecture

CHASS Annual Theme Lecture by Mike Davis

Tuesday, February 28, 2012
  4:10–5 p.m.

“Squaring the Circle:  the Sustainable Wealth of Public Space”

by

Mike Davis

Professor of Creative Writing

Tuesday, February 28th, 4:10—5:00

INTS 1113

Named a Macarthur Fellow in 1998, Mike Davis was also honored for distinguished achievement in nonfiction writing this past fall by the Lannan Literary Foundation. Professor Davis is the author of more than 20 books and more than 100 book chapters and essays in the scholarly and elite popular press. His scholarly interest span urban studies, the built environment, economic history and social movements. Perhaps his best know book, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles was named a best book in urban politics by the American Political Science Association and won the Isaac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics and has been translated into eight languages