World Town Planning Day event

Decolonizing planning in the era of Climate Chaos?

A conversation with Kerry Hardy and Jack Tchen

Wednesday, November 8th @ 3:30 PM
Chamberlain Student Center Rm 144
Refreshments will be served
Zoom option available

Description

For World Planning Day, this dialogue will unpack the phrase “best and highest use” by exploring the Knickerbocker Protestant origins of US planning. Stemming from Dutch and British colonialist practices and ideas of possessing and managing all land and all othered beings, we’ll discuss how this eco-history is linked to our current global “boiling” crisis.

We will explore the two unasked questions of our day: How can we unlearn from a series of extreme extractivist choices made by European colonists in the NJ/NY Metro region? How can we move towards regenerating the soil, the water, and the atmosphere in practical and fundamental ways?

Speakers

Kerry Hardy - Kerry Hardy is a researcher, eco-historian, and author who studies the human ecology of pre-Contact Native Americans, primarily through geographic and linguistic analysis. 

Jack Tchen -  Jack Tchen is the Clement A. Price Professor of Public History and Humanities at Rutgers-Newark. He researches the legacies of wealth and power in the building of the Empire City of the Empire State. The PHP emerged from serving as a Commissioner for the NYC Mayor’s Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers in 2017.

Zoom Link: https://go.rowan.edu/decolonize