Video Archive
Collected videos from Divided City Events
The Divided City Initiative – Overview
Laboratory for Suburbia Sprawl Sessions
Sprawl Session 1: White Suburbias
Sprawl Session 2: Black Suburban Imaginaries
Laboratory for Suburbia is a paradigm-shifting art and design project addressing the political possibilities of American suburbs. The project’s early phase is anchored by a series of “sprawl sessions”—public exchanges considering strategies for site-specific art and tactical design in the complex spaces of 21st-century suburbia.
The City Seminar was founded in 2007 as a forum through which scholars across disciplines and from colleges and universities throughout the St. Louis area share ideas, research methods, theories, and topics on urban issues in the United States and abroad. The City Seminar has been especially effective in bringing Architecture, Urban Design, and Humanities scholars into regular dialogue.
View the City Seminar with Nicole Fleetwood from April 13, 2021 below.
View the City Seminar with Kyes Stevens from February 22, 2021 below.
The Informal Cities Workshop is a three-day experience researching the morphology and the morphogenesis of the informal city, as it evolves to be an integral phenomenon of global urbanism, and the corresponding historical, economic, social, architectural, and urban theory.
View the lecture from our November 1, 2019 Informal Cities Workshop below.
“What are the social and economic processes that produce places? How does the environment around you come into being?”
Through a fun and engaging curriculum, kids take on deep questions about the role of environmental design in their daily lives — and their ability to participate in the shaping of it. View the Divided City’s new video about our partnership with the Alberti Program below.
Summer City Seminar: A Compendium of the Divided City, May 11, 2018
Part 1
Part 2
Divided City Summer Graduate Research Fellows‘ Presentations
October 1, 2018
September 25, 2017
City Seminar 10th Anniversary Roundtable Discussion: Politics and the City, November 10, 2016
“How to Tell the Story (Focus on Method and Interpretation)”
The first panel of “Memorializing Displacement: A Local/Global Workshop”, October 27, 2016.
“Creating the Lung Block: Racial Transition and the Making of the ‘New Public Health’ in a St. Louis Neighborhood, 1907-1940”
Taylor Desloge for City Seminar, April 14, 2016
“More Menacing than Fire and the Elements: Race, Neighborhood and Planning in 20th Century St. Louis”
Joseph Heathcott, November 12, 2015
“At the Risk of Seeming Ridiculous: Recasting ‘Black Lives Matter’ in the Contemporary Popular Imagination”
Garret Duncan for City Seminar, November 5, 2015