China's urbanisation – interactive [The Guardian]
The growth of China’s cities over the next 15 - 20 years will be historically unprecendented. Click through the interactive to see some of the remarkable statistics…
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“ The café is not a place a man goes to for a drink but a place he goes to in order to drink in company, where he can establish relationships of familiarity based on the suspension of the censorships and proprieties that prevail among strangers.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
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The City: Beijing—Ai Weiwei finds China’s capital is a prison where people go mad. [Newsweek]
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“ So every evening we can watch from above
Crushed cities like a bug
Fold ourselves into each other’s guts
Turn our faces up to the sun
Wilco - Country Disappeared (2009)
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