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Professor Sonia Hirt, Associate Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning, Virginia Tech and Harvard University
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 12:00-13:00
Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City
- 👤 Speaker: Professor Sonia Hirt, Associate Professor, Urban Affairs & Planning, Virginia Tech and Harvard University
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 16 May 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
- 📍 Venue: Lecture Room, Department of Architecture
Abstract
This lecture explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. Utilizing firsthand research culled from more than 100 interviews conducted primarily in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia—a city whose public spaces have unravelled over the last two decades—this lecture will examine the ways people live and experience the new, post-socialist urbanism. Also addressed are what these new spaces tell us about their builders, users, and inhabitants. Embracing an explicitly cultural approach, this lecture will suggest that disappointment with socialist and post-socialist conditions has led to mass scepticism toward the public domain (further resulting in a radical de-construction of public spaces), and will offer provocative insights infundamental change.
Series This talk is part of the Martin Centre Research Seminar Series series.
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