Speaker Series: Join us Wednesday to hear about higher ed’s role in city building
“Creative Class” researcher Kevin Stolarick will speak at Model D’s Speaker Series May 12 at the Book Cadillac. The topic will be how higher education institutions play a role in transforming cities. It is free to attend, but you must register in advance.
The Model D Speaker Series continues May 12 at the Westin Book Cadillac in downtown Detroit with a discussion of higher education’s role in city building.
Kevin Stolarick, research director of The Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, will speak. Stolarick works closely with “Creative Class” guru and urban studies theorist Richard
Florida, and the researcher’s data has been integral to Florida’s work. Model D interviewed Stolarick two years ago when he was in town for the
Creative Cities Summit. Read that story here.
We will start at 5:30 p.m. with registration. Presentations begin at 6 p.m. There will be a cash bar and networking time to follow. The event is free, but you must register in advance via the form below. The Book Cadillac is at Send questions and feedback here.
The Speaker Series is sponsored this month by WDET FM 101.9, the Westin
Book Cadillac Hotel, the Michigan State Housing Development
Authority, Henry
Ford Health Systems, Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center.
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