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The Brian Lehrer Show

City Housing: It's a Mod, Mod World

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Nathan Glazer, professor emeritus of sociology and education at Harvard University and the author of many books, including Beyond the Melting Pot, We Are All Multiculturalists Now and his latest, From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City (Princeton University Press, 2007), kicks off a series on public housing with a critique of modernist architecture and its effects on public space.

From a Cause to a Style is available for purchase at Amazon.com


Comments

  • [1] Sheree from Manhattan May 23, 2007 - 10:55AM

    Glazer's points are SO NOT NEW!

    Perhaps = a useful recapitulation of well-understood research since 1970, but he's just resting on academic laurels.
  • [2] chuckles May 23, 2007 - 04:06PM

    greetings, radio professionals!

    the embedded version of this segment starts talking about firefighters, not Nathan Glazer.

    Please embed the correct segment. thanks

    --The BL Show responds:

    We fixed the audio. Thanks for letting us know.

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