Rebecca Solnit, the distinguished writer, historian, activist and urbanist, will be the guest speaker at this year’s Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at The City College of New York, Thursday, April 2, at 6:30 p.m. Her talk, in CCNY’s Great Hall in Shepard Hall, will be entitled “Atlases against Empire: A Woman Measures the City." The author of 15 books on topics ranging from the environment and landscape to art, politics and hope, Solnit will expand on her long project to combine nuanced personal observation and rigorous historical analysis of the ecology of space. “Her work has recast the
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