Urbanism, Inc.

Down Town Association, 60 Pine Street (between Pearl and William Streets) [map] Monday, March 30, 6:30PM A panel discussion moderated by Neil Brenner featuring David Harvey, Laura Kurgan, and Peter Marcuse Reservations available online starting March 16 A fireside panel discussion with a sociologist, a geographer, an architect, and an urban planner on the real estate and financial sectors’ influence on urban development and policy, both locally and internationally. The landmarked Down Town Association is a private social club with a magnificent Jacobean-style paneled Reading Room. -- Access Restricted is a free nomadic lecture series that opens rarely visited and often prohibited spaces in Lower Manhattan to the general public. Once inside these unique interiors, the audience is treated to a site-specific lecture and discussion addressing a range of topics revolving around issues of architectural history and preservation, social justice, and urban development. The aim of these interpretive events is to foster new perspectives by encouraging the public to explore locales and situations through the various lenses of architecture and planning, art, history, sociology, political science and law.