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Bulldozer: Clearing the Way for Post WWII Suburbs
November 12, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$30.00 – $35.00
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023 AT 3:00 P.M.
Hingham Heritage Museum
3rd Floor Gillis Reading Room, and via Zoom. Speaker on Zoom
Bulldozer: Clearing the Way for Post WWII Suburbs
Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
In the years following World War II, the bulldozer was key to enabling rapid land clearance for new suburban subdivisions, urban renewal construction, and an ambitious highway building program that changed the landscape of America, and where and how people lived. In a program based on her pioneering history, Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape, Professor Ammon explores the relationship between destruction and progress in this post-war period.