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SUMMARY:Lecture 6: Permanently Temporary Cities: Refugee Camps - Esther da
  Costa Meyer (Princeton)
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DESCRIPTION:Many camps are now the size of cities\, with populations in th
 e hundreds of thousands. Around the globe\, architects and NGOs operating 
 on a shoestring budget\, struggle to design shelters and schools responsiv
 e to the needs of refugees traumatized by persecution and genocide.\nSpeak
 ers:\nEsther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
LOCATION:St John's College (Auditorium)\, St Giles OX1 3JP
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SUMMARY:Lecture 5: Brasilia: Planned Exclusion - Esther da Costa Meyer (Pr
 inceton)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260218T170000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260218T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Inaugurated in 1960\, the new capital of Brazil was designed b
 y architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa. While the elegance of Niemey
 er’s concrete shells elicited admiration\, the workers who built Brasíl
 ia were exiled in shantytowns far from the city.\nSpeakers:\nEsther da Cos
 ta Meyer (Princeton)
LOCATION:St John's College (Auditorium)\, St Giles OX1 3JP
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SUMMARY:Lecture 4: Accra and Kumasi: Architecture and Decolonization - Est
 her da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260211T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:After the election of Kwame Nkrumah as president of the Republ
 ic of Ghana in 1960\, Ghanaian architects explored new building models tha
 t were both modern and culturally sensitive\, alongside foreign architects
  attracted to the vibrant cosmopolitan environment.\nSpeakers:\nEsther da 
 Costa Meyer (Princeton)
LOCATION:St John's College (Auditorium)\, St Giles OX1 3JP
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SUMMARY:Lecture 3: Colonial Algiers: Architecture and Segregation - Esther
  da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260204T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:A look at the architecture of Algiers in the 1950s when the Fr
 ench tried to counter the calls for independence by erecting housing proje
 cts\, often by excellent architects. The Algerians reacted to these top-do
 wn initiatives\, often using buildings against the grain.\nSpeakers:\nEsth
 er da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
LOCATION:St John's College (Auditorium)\, St Giles OX1 3JP
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SUMMARY:Lecture 2: Shanghai - Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
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DESCRIPTION:An overview of Shanghai during the 1920s and 30s\, when Chines
 e architects responded forcefully with alternatives to the models of moder
 n architecture promoted by the Western and Japanese occupying powers\, a f
 ormidable but minuscule minority of the population.\nSpeakers:\nEsther da 
 Costa Meyer (Princeton)
LOCATION:St John's College (Auditorium)\, St Giles OX1 3JP
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SUMMARY:Lecture 1: Nineteenth-Century Paris: Memories and Counter-Memories
  - Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260121T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The radical urban transformation of Paris under Napoleon III l
 eft a swath of destruction to make way for new boulevards and upscale buil
 dings. Demolitions also uncovered archaeological ruins and other disquieti
 ng finds that challenged the city’s views of itself and of its history.\
 nSpeakers:\nEsther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
LOCATION:St John's College (Auditorium)\, St Giles OX1 3JP
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