A Historic Preservation and Redevelopment Walking Tour in New Brunswick

New Brunswick, NJ has many architectural gems that often go unappreciated. This tour will consider the diverse factors that affect cities.

By Rutgers University, Bloustein School

Date and time

Friday, October 21, 2022 · 1 - 3pm EDT

Location

Civic Square Building

33 Livingston Avenue Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901

About this event

New Brunswick, NJ has many architectural gems that often go unappreciated. The city has also experienced significant redevelopment and in tandem, historic preservation versus development challenges. This tour will consider these diverse forces that typify many American cities.

Tour Plan and Logistics

The tour will begin at the entrance to the Bloustein School, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J. Participants should meet at 12:45 p.m. on Friday, October 21. From the Civic Square Building, tour participants will walk down Livingston Avenue, return to George Street, tour downtown, and end by Old Queens on the Rutgers Campus by 3 p.m. Participants are welcome to walk across the street to the Starbucks Cafe at the Rutgers Bookstore for post-tour refreshments (buy-your-own).

The tour guides are Drs. David and Barbara Listokin, who teach urban redevelopment and historic preservation courses at the Bloustein School. This is a free, custom tour offered to members of the Bloustein School community. Spouses, significant others, children, and friends of Bloustein students, faculty, staff, and alumni are all invited. RSVP requested.

By registering for this event, you are also agreeing to give Rutgers University/Bloustein School permission to record you and your registered guests’ (including minors under the age of 18) image and/or voice. You grant Rutgers/Bloustein School all rights to use these sound, still, or moving images in any medium for educational, promotional, advertising, or other purposes that support the mission of the university. You agree that all rights to the sound, still, or moving images belong to Rutgers/Bloustein School.

Organized by

Rutgers University, Bloustein School

The mission of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is to create just, socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable, and healthy local, national, and global communities.

Research, teaching, and outreach at the Bloustein School aim for intellectual originality and practical rigor in an atmosphere of spirited and open debate. Bloustein activities are rooted in diversity of experience and thought. They create settings where individuals and communities can flourish. The Bloustein ethic strives to improve the quality of public discourse by producing ideas and measures that have impact.

The Bloustein ethic engages those who do their jobs not just honorably, but with a passion for their work that alters their surroundings. The Bloustein School seeks to foster new research and thinking that achieve both scholarly recognition and public acceptance.

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