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UNLV School of Architecture welcomed
Michael Dear
on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 7-8:30 pm
This lecture is available on VHS & DVD
Arch Media HT371 .D37 2005 (b)

University of Southern California professor Michael Dear will discuss “Dark City: Las Vegas Suburbs Meet L.A. Sprawl” as part of the Klai Juba lecture series at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, inside the Paul B. Sogg architecture building, Architecture Studies Library on the UNLV campus. The event will be preceded by a reception in the building’s lobby at 6:30 p.m. Both the lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

Dear is professor and chair in the Department of Geography at USC, where he is also Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Southern California Studies Center. He holds the title of Honorary Professor in the Bartlett School of Planning at University College, London (England). He has been a Guggenhein Fellowship holder as well as Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Italy.

Dear has received the highest honors for creativity and excellence in research from the Association of American Geographers and USC. He is among the most-cited authorities in his field, and is author/editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 journal articles. He is founding editor of the academic journal Society and Space. Dear is a leading exponent of the 'Los Angeles School' of urbanism, and his current work examines the urban future of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Michael Dear, USC faculty profile
http://www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/161.html
(last accessed 11/05)

Resources available in the UNLV Libraries:
From Chicago to L.A. : making sense of urban theory
Lied Bk Stx HT384.U52 L673 2001

The postmodern urban condition
Lied Bk Stx HT384.U52 L674 2000

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