Francesca Russello Ammon, University of Pennsylvania

Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE)

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 6:45 pm EST
Soda HouseHagley Library298 Buck RoadWilmington, DE 19807 
Although the decades following World War II were marked by rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were also a time of large-scale destruction.

 

In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, interstate highways, and urban renewal projects, wrecking companies demolished buildings and earth-moving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented rate and scale. In her book "Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape," Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress.

 

RSVPs encouraged, walk-ins welcome. Please RSVP to Carol Lockman, clockman@hagley.org, or 302-658-2400, ext. 243.