EMINENT DOMAIN: THE AMERICAN DREAM ON SALE,” LIVE from the NYPL Conversation Portrait, illustrated by artist Flash Rosenberg and edited by Sarah Lohman, June 18, 2008. What is the American Dream? Does it mean having a better life by creating a home and a community, living together for generations, building and tending relationships to one another and to a place? Or do we create a “better life” by moving up, moving out, removing the old, replacing with the new? Between 1949 and 1973, urban renewal, a program of the US government, bulldozed 2500 neighborhoods in 993 American cities and dispossessed one million people. Roots got cut, neighbors and families became separated, languages and cultures were destroyed, and social bonds were broken. Marshall Berman, Professor of Political Science, City College and the Graduate Center; Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health at Columbia University; Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning at Hunter College; and Brian Berger, photographer/blogger, discuss the use of eminent domain and how urban renewal is changing the cityscape of New York City. Filmmaker Michael Galinsky moderates.