Dr. Thomas Lekan received a Fulbright Grant to participate in German Studies Seminar on Urban Planning in Germany in June 2001. The themes of the seminar include:

• Historic preservation


• Transportation and land development planning


• German policies for urban energy distribution and waste disposal


• Urban demographics

Dr. Lekan plans to integrate information from the seminar into the urban and environmental history courses he offers at USC as well as a future research project on the historical relationship between German urban planning and environmental sustainability in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.