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How to Make a City: Dubai Circa 1960 

Talk

How to Make a City: Dubai Circa 1960
Dubai Creek, 1960 by John R. Harris Library

when 6:30‐8pm where Zoom Webinar who NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
Open to the Public

How to Make a City: Dubai Circa 1960 

Even before its shores claimed an ounce of steel, Dubai was a modern city whose residents plied sea and desert routes to sustain it. This talk charts how some of these global links generated the city we know today.

* Time: 6:30pm Gulf Standard Time
             9:30am Eastern Standard Time
 
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Speaker
Todd Reisz, Author, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford University Press, 2020); Co-Editor, "Building Sharjah" (Birkhauser, 2021)


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