Todd Swanstrom, E. Desmond Lee, professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri, St. Louis will lecture at the College of Design Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Swanstrom’s lecture, “The Ferguson Moment: Poverty, Politics and Planning in the Suburbs of St. Louis,” will focus on causes and cures for the problems facing communities similar to Ferguson, Missouri.

The event will be held at Kocimski Auditorium, Room 101 and will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Dr. Swanstrom is the author of six books including “Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century”, 2nd ed. This text, published in 2001, examines the relationship between suburban sprawl and the decline of central cities and inner-ring suburbs.

He also co-authored “City Politics”, 5th ed., which is a comprehensive examination of urban politics.

A reception will precede the lecture at 5 p.m., and small group discussions on issues of race and class will be led by college multicultural liaisons following the lecture.