WSU Urban Studies Blog

At the Friends of the Worcester Public Library book sale today, Dr. Conroy went shopping for books he will donate to CityLab.   For $4, he got: William Bradford, Of Plimouth Plantation, 1620-1647 Frank A. Brown and Beverly K Goodale, West Boylston William O. Hultgren et. Al., Worcester 1880-1920 Mary P. Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class:   The Family in Onieda County, New York, 1790-1865 Mary P. Ryan, Women in Public:   Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 Cary D. Wintz, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance James Sterling Young, The Washington Community, 1800-1828 For an additional $16 in the regular WPL book store , he bought: Nicholas Gage, A Place for Us (a memoir of a Greek immigrant who grew up in Worcester) J. Joseph Huthmacher, Massachusetts People and Politics Rae MacCollum Spencer, The Gift of Imaginative Leadership, a biography of Harry Galpin Stoddard, Affectionately called “Mr. Worceste...

Summer I 2014 Class Offerings Department of Urban Studies   UR 101    Introduction to Urban Studies                            LASC:   HBS and USW A broad contextual overview of urban life that examines the relationship of people to their environment from an interdisciplinary perspective.   A great first class in this dynamic academic field.   MW       9:00-12:00        Alan Gordon                 3 credits           S 320   UR 191       ST:   Worcester Politics/Urban Political Systems   This class explores 20th century American urban political systems by diving deeply into the history of the Worcester government and p...