Urban Network: People, Places and Politics of the City
February 5th , 2-5 PM
Willis Library Forum
Brian Price, Senior Planner for the City of Dallas
Currently serving as project lead in the Neighborhood Plus Program, extensive project management, community engagement, and data analyst role, providing ongoing neighborhood mapping, data, solution-development assistance to the program. Served as project manager over the South Dallas/ Fair Park NIP Target area- developed, managed, and executed public improvements and beautification projects, engaged in extensive outreach to neighborhood residents and leaders. Provided general data/policy, GIS/mapping, and graphic support to the Housing department, produced visualizations of housing trends and policy changes for department and policy makers.
S. Lee Merritt, Attorney
Social justice activist and attorney practices law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of New Jersey, federally in Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, and US District Court of the Northern District of Texas. Attorney Merritt is emerging as an influential new voice in the fight for Civil Rights throughout the country by bringing a passion for social reform and a commitment to speaking out on inequities while practicing law.
Kathryn Holliday of the University of Texas, Arlington
Kate Holliday is an architectural historian whose research and teaching focuses on the built environment in American cities. Her background is in architecture, art history, and environmental studies and she brings this interdisciplinary approach to the classroom and to her writing. Since joining UTA in fall of 2007 she has published two books, Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age (W. W. Norton, 2008) and Ralph Walker: Architect of the Century (Rizzoli, 2012). She has lectured widely on her work in public venues like the 92nd Street Y and the Skyscraper Museum in New York, as well as at universities and conferences from Havana to Zurich.
