The University has once again opened its doors to the public and to students from local colleges and universities for a course about New Haven.

Team-taught by faculty from several disciplines, the fall semester course is titled "New Haven and the Problem of Change in the American City."

The course has been given twice before, in 1996 and 1998, but this is the first time that students enrolled at Gateway Community College and the University of New Haven will participate, along with students from Quinnipiac University and Albertus Magnus College. Students at these schools take the course for academic credit at their home institutions, attending classes at Yale and discussion sections at their own schools. The course, which began on Sept. 7 and will continue through Dec. 5, is also open to the public free of charge.

"New Haven and the Problem of Change in the American City" explores one of this country's major public policy challenges and poses questions about America's ability to make good on democracy's promise of liberty and equality. Speakers will address the rapid transformation of New Haven and other American cities in the 20th century. Historical analysis will be used as a springboard for discussion of issues important to the city's future, including community and neighborhood development, regional collaboration, employment, housing, education and public safety.

The course is taught by Cynthia Farrar, Stephen Lassonde, Alan Plattus and Douglas Rae. Farrar is adjunct associate professor of political science and assistant vice president for urban policy development in Yale's Office of New Haven and State Affairs. Lassonde is a lecturer in the history department who studies public education in New Haven. Plattus is professor of architecture and urbanism at the Yale School of Architecture and director of its Urban Design Workshop. Rae is the Richard S. Ely Professor of Organization and Management at the Yale School of Management. He was chief administrative officer for the City of New Haven in the administration of Mayor John Daniels. Farrar, Plattus and Rae have worked with the Dwight neighborhood as part of a University partnership, and with other community projects in New Haven.

"In addition to marking the University's Tercentennial, this course is an important aspect of Yale's New Haven Initiative," says Farrar. "The course draws on what we have learned from that initiative about economic and human development and neighborhood revitalization. And we will offer historical and comparative perspectives that will, we hope, help to inform the way in which Yale and other local institutions of higher education pursue their partnerships with New Haven."

Lectures will be held on Tuesdays and some Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. A list of the remaining lectures and featured faculty member(s) follows:

Sept. 19: "Building the Centered City," Plattus

Sept. 21: "The Fabric of Enterprise: Living Local," Rae

Sept. 26, "Civic Density," Farrar

Oct. 3: "The Political Environment of the Centered City," Rae

Oct. 10: "Growing Up and Getting an Education in the Centered City," Lassonde

Oct. 17: "Destruction I: The Urban Centrifuge," Plattus

Oct. 19: "Destruction II: Civic Unraveling," Farrar

Oct. 24: "Planning For and Against the De-centered City: Modern Urbanism," Plattus

Oct. 31: "Fictions of Recentering: Post-modern and Global Urbanism," Plattus

Nov. 2: "Understanding the City These Days," Farrar, Lassonde, Plattus, Rae

Nov. 7: "School Reform?" Lassonde

Nov. 14: "Re-inventing Civic Density," Farrar

Nov. 16: "Anchored Capital: Yale and the Hospitals?" Farrar

Nov. 28: "Urban Politics in a Post-urban Setting," Rae

Dec. 5: "Suburban and New Urban Prospectus for New Haven," Rae and Plattus

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