How to Make a City: Dubai Circa 1960

Talk

WHEN February 9, 2021
6:30-8 PM WHERE Zoom Webinar WHO NYU Abu Dhabi Institute Open to the Public

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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Speakers
  • Todd Reisz, Author, "Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai" (Stanford, 2020)

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