Lecture in Edmonton: Knowing, Planning, Building: Cold War Urbanizm and the Hemispheric History of the Future

APPI is excited to support:

Lecture & Discussion with Peter Ekman, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Southern California

Knowing, Planning, Building: Cold War Urbanizm and the Hemispheric History of the Future

Lecture Description:

School of Urban and Regional Planning / Department of History, Classics, and Religion

University of Alberta
February 5, 2026

This lecture builds on Peter Ekman’s recently published book, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America’s Postwar Urbanism (Cornell University Press). A fine-grained intellectual history of urbanism, the book explores the shifting understandings of temporality that have animated architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and urban design, as fundamentally future-making propositions, since the Second World War. It presents the first full-scale history of urban studies, an interdisciplinary formation of expertise first named in the late 1950s, and routes that history through a vast transnational network of theorists and practitioners seeking to ground their designs on the urban future in methodical social research.

When: Thursday, January 5, 2026 - 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)
Where: Telus International Centre - University of Alberta Campus
(11104 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3)
Cost: General Admission: $25
Students: $5
RAIC/CAA/APPI Members: $12.50

For more information and to register click here.

When

February 5th, 2026 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM