“Sustaining Greenbelt’s Legacy”
April 27-28, 2012
Greenbelt Community Center
Greenbelt, MD
www.greenbeltmd.gov/75
In 1937, the city of Greenbelt, Maryland, was settled as a public cooperative community under the auspices of the New Deal. 75 years later, a two-day symposium will celebrate and evaluate the developments since 1937.
The conference, entitled “Sustaining Greenbelt’s Legacy”, is scheduled for April 27 and 28 in the Greenbelt Community Center. The event will kick-off with the Greenbelt Museum Open House and book signing for _Images of America: Greenbelt_ (Arcadia, 2012) Thursday, April 26, in the evening.
Friday morning, the symposium begins with “A Living Community: Greenbelt’s Enduring Legacies”, followed by “The Greenbelt Museum at 25”. The afternoon speakers (city staff, residents and academics) will delve into “Diversity in Greenbelt” and “Public Transportation for a Pedestrian City”.
Saturday’s morning session cover new initiatives. The 1 p.m. keynote address, by British architect and planner Dr. Mervyn Miller, is entitled “From the British Garden City in Greenbelt and Back to the English New Towns”. For a complete program and to register, please visit: www.greenbeltmd.gov/75 and http://www.greenbeltmd.gov/75/Greenbelt_75th_Symposium_Registration_Form.pdf
For additional information, please contact Isabelle Gournay ( gournay@umd.edu ), Conference Chair.
Thomas Zeller
Department of History
University of Maryland
http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/TZeller/