Restoration Urbanism

Placemaking 14: Conversations on Cooperatives and Community Land

May 6, 2022

UofO’s 14th annual Placemaking event is a four-week series of workshops on Community Land Trusts and alternate development and cooperative models. This course includes an overview of housing rights and development issues with opportunities to get involved in organizing efforts. CLICK HERE TO VIEW PROGRAM RECORDINGS AND RESOURCES. Program  Week 1 – April 11, 7 …

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Solidarity Potluck & 2.2 Square Miles of Soul

September 24, 2021

Solidarity Potluck: Together Again (Outdoors!) & Outdoor Screening of 2.2 Square Miles of Soul About this event Solidarity Potluck: Together Again (Outdoors!) Comida Compartida Solidaria: Juntos de Nuevo (¡al aire libre!) Outdoor Screening of 2.2 Square Miles of Soul: Voices of Orange Proyección al aire libre de 2.2 Square Miles of Soul: Voices of Orangea …

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Urban Alchemy Reading Group

June 25, 2021

Join UofO’s summer reading group of the seminal text “Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities” by Dr. Mindy Fullilove REGISTER FOR FREE HERE You can purchase the book here. Use the code ALCHEMY25 at checkout for a 25% discount. In addition to four weekly reading group sessions on zoom (Monday’s between July 12th and …

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Stroll’n Scroll and Share!

January 25, 2021

Friday’s January 29th and February 5th starting at 5:30PM EST This year’s Jan Term will have the theme Mushrooms and Marx and we want to think collectively and  ecologically about the needs of our cities at this time. This year one of our virtual field trip offerings for Jan Term is Stroll ‘n Scroll and …

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Lunch ‘n Learn with Andy Merrifield

January 8, 2021

Join Andy Merrifield for UofO’s Jan Term seminar on Mushrooms and Marx. Register for free on Eventbrite. Andy Merrifield is a writer, urbanist and independent scholar with a PhD from the University of Oxford. He is author of a dozen books, including works on urbanism and social theory such as Metromarxism, The New Urban Question and Magical Marxism, intellectual …

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Remembering Rosa: Stories & Songs of People’s Power

April 6, 2021

University of Orange invites you to attend Remembering Rosa: Stories and Songs of People’s Power. Monday December 21st at 6pm.This hour long virtual event features four stories of solidarity and community organizing in Orange NJ alongside song and dance from Ebenezer Baptist Church, Orange Prep Academy, Concepts in Choreography, and local artists Ray Sykes and Joshua …

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Stroll and Scroll Walks

October 26, 2020

As a part of UofO’s Reading Group for Mindy Fullilove’s book Main Street we are offering three walks: A Box-Circle-Line walk of Orange’s Main Street on October 31st (~2 miles) on October 31st from 1-3PM A Transect Walk from Maplewood to Montclair (~8 miles) on November 1st starting at 10:30am A Transect Walk following the Orange Line …

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Drawing by Carol Hsiung.

Main Street Reading Group

December 24, 2020

We invite you to join the University of Orange in a reading group and urbanism series that will celebrate the launch of Main Street: How A City’s Heart Connects Us All by Essex County’s own Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD. Register for free here. For information on the facilitated Stroll and Scroll walks as a part of …

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Main Street Book Launch Party!

August 31, 2020

Join us on September 8th at 5:30PM to celebrate the release of Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book, Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. We will have music and poems from friends featured in Main Street, a reading from Mindy, and the Might and Main award ceremony!  Register for the book launch HERE and pre-order …

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Drawing by Carol Hsiung.
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