2008 FREDRIC M. MILLER MEMORIAL LECTURE

April 17, 2008, 5pm, at Rutgers-Camden

David Schuyler, the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will deliver the tenth annual Fredric Miller Memorial Lecture on Thursday April 17th at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.

The co-editor of three volumes of The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, including most recently The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company, 1865-1874 (1992), Schuyler will assess the creation of New York City’s Central Park and its legacy on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Olmsted and Vaux greensward plan of 1858.
Schuyler is also the author of a number of books in urban and planning history, including A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940-1980 (2002); Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing 1815-1852 (1996); and The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America (1986). He is co-editor of From Garden City to Green City: The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard (2002).

The lecture will begin at 5:00 P.M. in Penn 401 on the Rutgers Camden campus. A reception will follow. Email Howard Gillette at hfg@camden.rutgers.edu for reservations and directions.