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| | French Culture | Utopia: Lectures and Readings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | By discussing the tangible contributions of women to the design of utopias, through Arts and Crafts associations and the Bauhaus, for example, the speakers shed new light on the ways that women have attempted to shape the built environment and the visual world according to their notion of the ideal. |
 | | In contrast to the Western ideal of an Asian utopia is the Chinese concept of a paradise after death. |
 | | This exhibition, a collaboration with the New York City Municipal Archives, draws on the archives' rich collections to examine the important role of water in New York City's attempts, around the turn of the century, to sanitize and rationalize an environment characterized by industrialization, rapid growth, overcrowding, immigration, and explosive social change. |
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