This free 4-part public history seminar, funded by Georgia Humanities, hosted by the Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and moderated by me, dropped into New Deal Atlanta to understand the economic, political, racial, and spatial context that made the city the birthplace of American public housing. This Georgia Seminar met from 6:00-7:30pm on consecutive Tuesdays: April 11, 18, 25, and May 2, 2023. Over these four evening meetings, we investigated how these projects learned from European housing experiments and in turn became architectural models for other US cities during the New Deal. The student mix was extraordinary and represented numerous generations, fields of expertise, and interests. Worth doing again!
Poster for the Spring 2023 Georgia Humanities Public Seminar on Atlanta’s New Deal Public Housing at Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Design by Christina E. Crawford.
Final class meeting of the Spring 2023 Georgia Humanities Public Seminar on Atlanta’s New Deal Public Housing at Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Photo: Colette Barlow.