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The big house and the quarters; the front door and the back door; lunch counters, water fountains, the back of the bus. One of the most persistent ways people exert power over others is to control access to space. Drawing upon the fields of architecture, environmental studies, urban design, and public policy, this discussion will pose the following questions: How do we mark our territory? How do the built environments we create reflect our values and aspirations? Whom do we include and exclude in the process? Touching on gentrification, the decline of public space, historic preservation, residential segregation, and suburban sprawl, Lewis & Clark College visiting assistant professor of history Reiko Hillyer will lead a conversation about how to read the history of our communities through the landscapes we build and consider how we can be more aware of, and more engaged in, the creation of our surroundings.
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Equipment required: digital projector; screen
Program available through May 12, 2012
Reiko Hillyer is a visiting assistant professor of history at Lewis & Clark College, where she recently won the Teacher of the Year award. She teaches twentieth-century US history, African American history, the Civil War, women’s history, and the history of the American landscape. Her current book project, Designing Dixie: Landscape, Tourism, and Memory in the New South, 1870–1941, explores the era following the Civil War and examines the role that northern tourism to the South played in fostering reconciliation between North and South. Formerly a high school history teacher and guide for Big Onion Walking Tours in New York City, Hillyer is a lifelong New Yorker who is still adjusting to the calm of Portland. She received her BA from Yale University and her doctorate from Columbia University.
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