The State Between – A Symposium on New Jersey Urbanism

The State Between – A Symposium on New Jersey Urbanism Princeton University School of Architecture Betts Auditorium / May 1, 2015 / 10a-6p This event is free and open to the public http://soa.princeton.edu/state-between In the celebrated song "New York, New York," Frank Sinatra’s yearning for success in the big city captures the aspirations of many in his hometown, Hoboken, New Jersey. With only four large cities in the state (the largest, Newark, has a population of about 270,000 people), Hobokenites aren’t the only ones suffering the “little town blues.” Jerseyans are known for wanting to escape to livelier places, but just as people leave, newcomers arrive looking for less expensive real estate, the American Dream in the suburbs, political refuge and employment. In- and out-migration shapes the state’s urban space, producing new built environments, commuting streams, transnational communities, and ethnic and racial concentrations. Global industrial restructuring, national political movements, and national immigration policies condition these population flows and impact the state’s urban spaces. This symposium joins scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines and professional fields for a discussion on the global, metropolitan, and local forces and actors that shape New Jersey’s urban cultures, communities, and built environments. By thinking of New Jersey as a constructed object of representation and research, we seek to unpack the methods, units of analysis, archives, and other sources that reveal how New Jersey’s spatial imaginary is constituted within the state and beyond. PROGRAM SCHEDULE 10:15-10:30 AM / Welcome 10:30-11:50PM / Learning from New Jersey Urbanism Rafi Segal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Architecture Robert Hillier, Princeton University – Architecture Wendel White, Richard Stockton College – Art Moderator: Kelly Baum, Princeton University Art Museum 12:00-1:00PM / Lunch Break 1:00-2:20 PM / Documenting Stories about New Jersey Places Rafael Pi Roman, WNET Thirteen – Host of Latino Americans of NY and NJ Ulla Berg, Rutgers University – Anthropology Darnell Moore, Queer Newark Oral History Project Whitney Strub, Rutgers University – Women's and Gender Studies Moderator: Rebecca O’Brien, Wall Street Journal 2:20-2:30PM / Break 2:30-3:50PM / Race and Space in New Jersey Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Baruch College/CUNY – Black and Latino Studies Alison Isenberg, Princeton University – History George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara – Black Studies and Sociology Moderator: William Gleason, Princeton University – English 3:50-4:00PM / Break 4:00-5:20PM / New Jersey, in a Metro Context Andrew Urban, Rutgers University – American Studies Johana Londoño, Princeton University Howard Gillette, Rutgers University – History Moderator: Mike Owen, Benediktsson – Hunter College/CUNY – Sociology 5:20-6:00PM / Closing Remarks