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Public gathering spots give people chances to observe, learn about each other.
By Jim Shelton, New Haven Register jshelton@nhregister.com / Twitter: @jimboshelton NEW HAVEN — Elijah Anderson is always on the lookout for new branches of the cosmopolitan canopy. He finds them in downtown coffee shops, along inner-city bike paths and, of course, on...
read moreSpirituality and Practice: Book Review: The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Spirituality and Practice: Book Review: By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat It is such a pleasure to read about a city lover walking around and enjoying the diversity evident in all the people sitting on benches in parks or congregating in shopping centers. Elijah Wood...
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Hopeful Sociology
Hopeful Sociology How to Become Cosmopolitan in Urban Public Space by Stéphane Tonnelat From Books&Ideas.net An ethnography of Philadelphia takes up a problem rarely addressed by the social sciences: how to account for events that do not take place? In his latest...
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Yale’s Elijah Anderson to deliver lecture as SPPA marks 50th
Eminent scholar and professor Elijah Anderson of Yale University will deliver a talk on race and civility on Tuesday, Nov. 15, giving the first speech in a series of distinguished lectures organized by the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) to...
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Elijah Anderson at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Elijah Anderson will be at The Brooklyn Book Festival. Eminent urbanists Marshall Berman (All That Is Solid Melts into Air), Sharon Zukin (Naked City), and Elijah Anderson (The Cosmopolitan Canopy) assess the contemporary urban experience. Greg Lindsay (Aerotropolis)...
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Elijah Anderson Discusses The Cosmopolitan Canopy this Evening in Manhattan
Nicholas Lemann Discusses The Cosmopolitan Canopy in “Get Out of Town.” The New Yorker Magazine.
GET OUT OF TOWN Has the celebration of cities gone too far? by Nicholas Lemann ABSTRACT: A CRITIC AT LARGE about recent books on cities and urban planning. In the United States right now, after a long run of “urban crisis” (punctuated by periodic hopeful reports of...
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3rd Annual Beer Summit in Philadelphia Will Feature Elijah Anderson
MLK365 Beer Summit Continues Conversation on Race Relations By Baba Bob Shipman In the aftermath of the summer, 2009 arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates on his own front porch by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley, President Obama invited the two to the...
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Author Event With Dr. Elijah Anderson And Panel Discussion Moderated By Ray Suarez
Wednesday, May 11, 6pm Inside Reading Terminal Market, in Piano Court FREE and open to the public Join PBS's Ray Suarez for a provocative panel inspired by the new book, THE COSMOPOLITAN CANOPY: Race and Civility in Everyday Life (W.W. Norton), by Elijah Anderson, a...
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Elijah Anderson explores Philadelphia’s ‘cosmopolitan canopies’
The "cosmopolitan canopy" in Rittenhouse Square. Photo courtesy of Elijah Anderson WHYY Radio The latest census found Philadelphia the nation’s 9th most segregated metropolitan area in the United States. But there are still many places that bring people together, and...
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