Urbanologist Max Grinnell Visits Gainesville

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GAINESVILLE, FL- Urbanologist and author Max Grinnell will be speaking at the Headquarters Library in downtown Gainesville Monday, March 1^st at 7:00p.m.

Max Grinnell is a scholar and writer whose primary interest is in describing and narrating different aspects of the urban condition. In the past ten years, he has completed a visual history of the neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago's South Side (home of President Barack Obama), explored the post-industrial heart of Sheffield in the north of England, and wandered through the waterfronts of San Francisco and Boston.

He has contributed to a number of travel publications, and his most recent books are the "Rough Guide to Chicago: 3rd Edition" and "24 Great Walks in Chicago".

His new project will be focused on documenting the legacy of the Federal Writers Guides written in the 1930 and 1940s.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:   http://www.theurbanologist.com/

 BIOGRAPHY

ur·ban·olo·gist (ʉr′bə näl′ə jist): (noun) a student of, or specialist in, urban problems

As an urbanologist, geographer, historian, and raconteur, Max Grinnell finds his raison d’etre in describing, critiquing, and analyzing the urban condition.

Raised in Seattle and Madison, Wisconsin, Max was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin. He has diverse talents and abilities that he brings to his work as an educator, a journalist, an urban consultant, and a writer.

As part of his professional experience, Max has worked with the Michael Sorkin Design Studio, the Newberry Library, Frommer’s Publications, AA Publishing, the Chicago Tribune, the city of Chicago’s Cultural Affairs Department, the Worldwide University Network, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Chicago.

He has designed and taught courses on urban studies, community development, geography, planning and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Boston University, the Massachusetts College of  Art and Design and the University of Chicago.

Since 2002, Max has written and edited The Scout Report, a weekly publication sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Microsoft Corporation, and the University of Wisconsin. Each week, he write about high quality websites that profile everything from archaeological digs in Israel to photo archives documenting the architectural history of San Francisco. The most recent edition of the Report can be found here.

Over the past decade, Max has published several substantive critiques of urban development policies, architectural guides to Chicago and Boston, and a book on the history of one of Chicago’s most diverse and culturally significant neighborhoods, Hyde Park (Arcadia Publications, 2001).

His most recent book, a lively look at 24 of Chicago’s most intriguing neighborhoods, was  published concurrently by AA Publishing (Britain) and Frommer’s (North America) in 2009.

Those who are interested in learning more about Max and his recent work may wish to read this interview from Gaper’s Block.

Max currently divides his time between Chicago and Boston.