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Maurice Cox, architect and planning director for the city of Detroit, Mich., presented the first Harrison Lecture for the semester at 4 p.m. on Fri., Jan. 26, in the Robert and Freda Harrison Auditorium. His lecture was titled “Learning from Detroit: The Most Inclusive Comeback Story Ever Told.”
Cox is an urban designer, architectural educator and former mayor of the city of Charlottesville, Va. He most recently served as Associate Dean for Community Engagement at Tulane University, School of Architecture and Director of the Tulane City Center, a university-affiliated practice operating at the intersection of design, urban research and civic engagement throughout the New Orleans community.
This lecture series is sponsored through a generous gift by Freda Wallace Harrison and Dr. Robert V.M. Harrison, FAIA, FCSI.