As an urban planning graduate student at the Hamburg University of Technology, Egyptian architect Mohamed Atta researched what he saw as the intrusions of Western modernist architecture and Western tourists into traditional Arab cities.
Daniel Brook Lecture: Building model modernities in Shanghai and Mumbai
Published December 6, 2010
Event date:
December 8, 2010 - 12:00pm
Join Pulitzer Center journalist and Black Mountain Institute fellow Daniel Brook as he examines Shanghai and Mumbai's volatile, continuing experiments in forging a Chinese and Indian modernity. Though explicitly built to be Asia's most modern—and, concomitantly, least Chinese or Indian—metropolises, by the early twentieth century, the cities had unwittingly developed into unique East-West hybrids. As Shanghai and Mumbai lead their nations' reengagements with the global economy, it is prudent to examine their strikingly parallel histories. These fraternal twin cities are rediscovering their historical roles as outward-looking links to the wider world.
LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are needed. For more info, please visit the Library of Congress website.
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Daniel Brook wins the gold prize in the Cultural Tourism Article category for the Society of American Travel Writers competition.
Daniel Brook wins the prestigious Writing Award in the Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism for his Pulitzer Center reporting on "The Architect of 9/11".
