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Class Acts Online Talk: City Development and Urban History

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Date:

29 Apr 2020

Time:

4:00pm

Speaker(s):

Professor Ian MorleyAssociate Professor, Department of History;Associate Professor on Urban Studies Programme

Event Details:

The online talk will be uploaded to YouTube and CUTV website.

Language: English

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Synopsis of Lecture:

The modern world of the early-twenty first century is to a great degree defined by large-sized cities. But what do we really know of the urban places that we live in, or the places that we visit when we go on vacation, or the places where globalised business occurs? In this presentation an introduction to urban history is given. As such, a basic question is put forward: how can studying urban history help us to better comprehend our cities today?