Professor David Wilson to Discuss the Political Economy of U.S. Cities

David Wilson, urban and political geographer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will give a talk titled The Political Economy of U.S. Cities on Friday, March 30, at 4pm in the Colloquium Room on the 8th floor of Library South.  Dr. Wilson’s talk is sponsored by the Department of Geosciences and is the 3rd in their spring 2012 Speaker Series.

David Wilson is the author and co-author of many books, several of which are available at the University Library:

• Cities and Race: America’s New Black Ghetto
• Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America’s Built Environment
• Marginalized Places and Populations: A Structurationist Agenda
• The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives, Two Decades Later