Michigan Debates on Urbanism: Everyday Urbanism January 30, 2004

"Auditorium, Room 2104
Art + Architecture Building

Overview of Everyday Urbanism
Non-utopian, informal, and non-structuralist, "Everyday Urbanism" celebrates and builds on everyday, ordinary life and reality with little pretense about the possibility of a perfectable, tidy, or ideal built environment. It is populist and democratic by definition and design, and the most socially compassionate of the three paradigms discussed in this series, but does it overestimate the mythic aspect of the ordinary and over-praise the venacular and commercial?"
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