# [Vacant Stares: Adrienne Brown on Rethinking Urban Emptiness](https://robo.app/r/e48ays/vacant-stares-adrienne-brown-on-rethinking-urban-emptiness)

- When: 2026-11-11 18:00-19:30 (America/Chicago)
- Scarcity: one_day
- Cadence: once
- Where: (42.05205, -87.67238)
- Ages: all ages
- Price: free
- Category: class
- Topics: architecture, lecture, urban-design
- About: Adrienne Brown (University of Chicago professor and director of Arts + Public Life) presents current research reimagining urban vacancy, challenging standard representations of urban emptiness and offering new ways of understanding urban space beyond narratives of repair or redevelopment.
- Source: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/645095
- Feed: [Chicago Architecture Events](https://robo.app/f/7a5u4u/chicago-architecture-events)

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