This tour requires pre-registration.Join the
Department of Walking on a walk that crosses the
Delmar Divide and examines the ways in which race, class and public policies have made one street a significant division. Beginning in the
Central West End and traveling to the adjacent
Fountain Park neighborhood, the tour examines how two neighborhoods that developed similarly in the early twentieth century became estranged in the later part. The tour opens speculation on how to make a whole and equitable city -- how a street like Delmar might be a bind instead of a barrier.
Your guide is
Michael Allen, an urban and architectural historian who teaches in the graduate architecture programs at
Washington University in St. Louis and directs the
Preservation Research Office. Allen founded the Department of Walking as a vehicle for engaging the ways in which social struggles and political change is encoded in the built environment of cities like St. Louis.
Maximum participants: 15
Fee: $30
Accessibility: Walking, standing.
Transportation: Walk from the conference hotel. Meet the tour volunteer at the front desk 15 minutes prior to start.
