SA+P Spring 2022 Lecture Series 05: Brent D. Ryan/Yegor Vlanseko

WHEN STATUES FALL: WHAT UKRAINE'S DECOMMUNIZATION MEANS FOR AMERICAN CITIES

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Brent D. Ryan
Brent D. Ryan is Head of the City Design and Development Group and Associate Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His research focuses on the aesthetics and policies of contemporary urban design, particularly with respect to current and pressing issues like deindustrialization and climate change. Professor Ryan’s first book Design After Decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities, was selected by Planetizen as one of its ten best urban planning books of 2012, and his second book, The Largest Art, was published by MIT Press in 2017.

Yegor Vlanseko
Fulbriight Visiting Scholar, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.