Imagine a Los Angeles without cars…or at least fewer of them

Robert Gottlieb is Research Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and the Founder and Former Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. He is the author and co-author of twelve books and numerous other publications, including Food Justice with Anupama Joshi (MIT Press, 2010), Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press, 2007), Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (MIT Press, 2000), and Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Island Press, 1993). He has published more than eighty book chapters, journal articles, and professional papers and reports, and has also appeared in more than thirty newspapers and public interest journals, including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, and the Mexican magazine Proceso.

A post-lecture reception will be held in the Williamson Gallery.

The ArtCenter Dialogues, a lecture series made possible by a generous endowment from the Toyota Motor Corporation, brings eminent speakers to the College from a wide variety of art, design and educational backgrounds to inspire creativity and thoughtful discussion, and to broaden perspectives.
 
In the 2015-2016 year, ArtCenter will be celebrating its 85th anniversary and the Humanities & Sciences department has decided to mark this occasion by asking questions of our future. The Future Ecologies series engages the critical and imaginative futures we as a species face by considering the rapidly changing natural and technological environments of our contemporary world. The series also coincides with the Williamson Gallery Spring 2015 exhibition: Urbanature – New Representations of the Natural (Feb 18-May 8)