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SUMMARY:Iron Curtains: Gates\, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the P
 ost-socialist City - Professor Sonia Hirt\, Associate Professor\, Urban Af
 fairs &amp\; Planning\, Virginia Tech and Harvard University
DTSTART:20120516T110000Z
DTEND:20120516T120000Z
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CONTACT:Xiao Rong
DESCRIPTION: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 decad
 es—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 so
 cialist and post-socialist conditions has led to mass scepticism toward th
 e public domain (further resulting in a radical de-construction of public 
 spaces)\, and will offer provocative insights infundamental change. \n
LOCATION:Lecture Room\, Department of Architecture
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