Minerva Partners

Calame book talk on Divided Cities at UPenn School of Design 9/9

Urban Partition Along Ethnic Lines: When, Where & Why

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Upper Gallery, Meyerson Hall (210 S. 34th St.) | 6:00pm

Co-sponsored with PennDesign’s Historic Preservation Program and AIA Philadelphia, Jon Calame, co-author of Divided Cities: Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia (UPenn Press, March 2009), and founding partner of Minerva Partners, will explore the logic of violent urban partition along ethnic lines – when it occurs, who supports it, what it costs, and why seemingly healthy cities succumb to it. His field-based investigations are coupled with scholarly research to illuminate the history of urban dividing lines, the social impacts of physical partition, and the assorted professional responses to "self-imposed apartheid." Mr. Calame will offer reflections on professional replies to partition, both successful and unsuccessful, and outline a predictive model that might forestall division in the future.  Penn IUR Public Interest Series

Calame to talk on "Divided Cities" book & partition in the US

Thursday, August 13 -– 6:30 p.m.

Neighborhood Preservation Center

232 East 11th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)

Join us as Jon Calame, founding partner of Minerva Partners and co-author of "Divided Cities: Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia" (UPenn Press, March 2009), explores the logic of violent urban partition along ethnic lines—when it occurs, who supports it, what it costs, and why seemingly healthy cities succumb to it. His field-based investigations are coupled with scholarly research to illuminate the history of urban dividing lines, the social impacts of physical partition, and the assorted professional responses to "self-imposed apartheid."

Book signing and moderated discussion regarding American cities vulnerable to violent partition, with special attention to Detroit in the wake of the auto industry collapse, will follow.

Calame on divided Cyprus

Follow this link for a brief "Current TV" report on Cyprus by videojournalist Adam Fish, including commentary by partner Jon Calame.

The Iconoclastic Project

Click to view a slideshow of Jon Calame's 2/20/08 lecture at Bowdoin College, part of a series on art and social change.

Why Partition Does Not Pay

Click below to view Minerva Partners lecture on the economics of urban partition delivered on 4 July 2007 in Nicosia, Cyprus hosted by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo.

25 Reasons HP is Not Working

Click to view a slideshow of 4/03 Minerva Partners lecture at Roger Williams University on key failings of the historic preservation profession.

Ethnic Conflict in the Urban Domain

Click to view a slideshow of a July 2005 Minerva Partners presentation at the ICCROM Forum in Rome on the role of historic preservation in the context of urban rehabilitation following ethnic conflict.

HP in urban reconstruction

Click to view a slideshow of Jon Calame's 4/13/06 lecture at Pratt College on the role of historic preservation in the context of post-disaster urban reconstruction.