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COLLEGE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTS DEAN’S DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES LANCE FREEMAN A Haven and a Hell, The Ghetto in Black America
College of Built Environments - Architecure Hall 147
3943 Stevens Way W
Seattle, WA 98105

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Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Category: APA WA Events

Lance Freeman is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program and the Director of the doctoral program in Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. His research focuses on affordable housing, gentrification, ethnic and racial stratification in housing markets, and the relationship between the built environment and well-being.

In A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman’s newest book (Columbia University Press, April 2019), he examines how the ghetto shaped black America and black America shaped the ghetto. Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. At times, the ghetto promised the freedom to build black social institutions and political power. At others, it suppressed and further stigmatized African Americans.

Dr. Freeman has published several articles in refereed journals on issues related to neighborhood change, urban poverty, housing policy, urban sprawl, and residential segregation. Dr. Freeman is also the author of the book There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up (Temple University Press). He also obtained extensive experience working with community development groups while working as a Community Development Coordinator for the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development and as a Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Freeman also has professional experience working as a City Planner for the New York City Housing Authority, and as a budget analyst for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.