The ideas of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) have been much discussed in the present context of financial crisis, economic stimulus, and infrastructure investment. By comparison, the cultural and historical meanings of these ideas have received relatively little attention. The two presentations in this panel discussion will address aspects of Keynesian and neo-Keynesian economic policy and practice in cultural terms, as they involve architecture and urbanism both historically and in the present.

Keynes and Arup
Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor of Architectural History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Can There Be a Keynesian City?
Sarah Whiting, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Princeton University

Moderated by Reinhold Martin

Sponsored by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture