Hi, I'm Julian Hartman, an urban and economic geographer, and ALI postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning.
I'm working on a project on the prehistory of innovation districts, analyzing how the urban core of Boston and Cambridge remade itself into a hub of innovation in response to the mid 20th century tech boom around suburban Route 128. My research focuses on how universities and hospitals participated in urban renewal and how these projects were contested by minority groups and radical social movements.
As a scholar, I am broadly interested in:
Universities, hospitals and urban renewal
Local land use regulation
Entrepreneurial ecosystems
Industrial restructuring and uneven development
The historical geographies of racial capitalism