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This podcast looks at architecture and urbanism in Africa to consider what the built environment can tell us about the past, present, and future of the the continent.
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In 2001, the Apartheid Museum opened in Johannesburg, South Africa. This podcast examines the history surrounding the museum's construction, its approach to memorializing a recent and traumatic past, and its controversial relationship to South Africa's present. Created by Annie Titan, Miranda Claxton, Madison Collins, Michelle Kang; Photo of museum by Annette Kurlyo.
UCLA Students America Perez and Jion Kim discuss the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakesh, Morocco, and examine its relationship to Orientalist painting and the fashion of Yves Saint-Laurent. 
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