October 2011
1 post
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…
September 2011
5 posts
China 'Cancels' an Entire City [The Atlantic:... →
China’s Tibetan Theme Park [New York Review of... →
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China water resettlement: 'Honest folk have lost... →
“The café is not a place a man goes to for a drink but a place he goes to in...”
– Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
The City: Beijing—Ai Weiwei finds China’s capital... →
July 2011
1 post
How power, money and art are shifting to the East... →
June 2011
2 posts
13th Dalai Lama's Home Demolished →
Chinese woman sets herself alight in 'land grab'... →
April 2011
6 posts
“So every evening we can watch from above
Crushed cities like a bug
Fold...”
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Wilco - Country Disappeared (2009)
Chaos in Bristol's 'cultural quarter' →
“Scuffles broke out on Thursday night when officers forced their way into a property being used by squatters on Cheltenham Road, virtually opposite the Tesco shop.”
Cités Idéales [JF Rauzier] →
“We cannot simply walk into other people’s worlds, and expect thereby to...”
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Lee, Jo, and Tim Ingold. 2006. “Fieldwork on foot: perceiving, routing, socializing”. Locating the Field. 67-85.
“he wants to walk this evening, the rhythm of his steps calms him in the way that...”
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Paul Auster - Sunset Park (2010, p.197)
March 2011
7 posts
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Is New York really 'too New York' for cycling?... →
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China: 'Don't worry, be happy' [TheEconomist] →
Shenzhen Attitude [NYTimes] →
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Le Corbusier's Indian masterpiece Chandigarh is... →
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Chongqing: Chinese mega-city building huge... →
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New model metropolises. Paradises on earth: How... →
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February 2011
2 posts
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Sanya’s “Hammer Action” to pull down the city’s... →
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Population control in Beijing: Air-raid warnings... →
As the leaders see it, a plague of human rats in the capital.
October 2010
2 posts
3 tags
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen... →
“The chair was the only sign he’d ever given of having a personal vision of...”
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Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
September 2010
2 posts
China’s bizarre phenomena: buildings die... →
Walls Fall in a German City, but This Time to Few... →
August 2010
4 posts
Chicago on the Yangtze. Welcome to Chongqing, the... →
Millionaires Get Slum Neighbors in... →
Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the... →
China heritage chief says building boom is... →
July 2010
8 posts
Bulldozers Meet Historic Chinese Neighborhood... →
Beijing Real Estate – A Hot Market... →
Hainan “Building Thin Thin” demolished [China... →
“July 10, Haikou, Hainan, the law enforcement personnel were directing the two excavators to demolish the most “awesome” (牛 niu) thin building in Hainan, this marks the end of the “Building Thin Thin” (楼薄薄).”
London: Another Country? [BBC Radio 4] →
London: Another Country? will explore what happens when 7.5 million people, speaking over 300 languages, try to live together in a city that has a population density ten times higher than anywhere else in the UK, but is the greenest city of its size in the world, with two thirds covered in green space or water. A city that comes fourth on the global list of number of billionaires and generates...
“Somewhere are places where we have really been, dear spaces
Of our deeds and...”
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W.H. Auden In Transit (Spring 1950)
Israel Grows Uneasy Over Reliance on Migrant Labor... →
78-year-old construction worker crushed to death... →
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Chinese government installs over 8,000... →
June 2010
8 posts
“Some thirty inches from my nose
The frontier of my Person goes,
And all the...”
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The war’s on! Peasant builds blockhouse to fight... →
“To protect his contracted property from being demolished by force, 56 years old peasant Yang Youde builds a blockhouse on his farming land and successfully scares the demolition team away twice using fire-tubes. Yang says he is not nail-household who struggles for higher compensation, he is just fighting to justify what he entitled to by laws.”
A magic moment for the city of God [economist] →
China’s Auto Demand 1980-2020 [chinfographics] →
More greatly presented stats from chinfographics!
Lhasa invests 10 million yuan on renovation of... →
“More than 30 dilapidated houses built between 1980s and 1990s need to be repaired this year. “The renovation of those buildings have started successively and will be finished before this November,” said Losang.” Now that’s what I call old! (IC)
Tibetan version here: http://tb.tibet.cn/index/zyxw/201006/t20100610_590232.htm
Post-Soviet Urbanism in Mongolia, by Sarah Bassett... →
Futuristic Floating City is an Ecotopia at Sea... →
Collective punishment for building occupants in... →
“In November 2008, Yuan Zhengming, a 22-year-old street vendor was walking along the road when she was struck in the head by a metal object.
The object was determined to have fallen from the apartment building nearby, but since no one stepped forward to accept responsibility, Yuan sued all of the households on that side of the building.
She has now been awarded 259,580.57 RMB, to be...
May 2010
9 posts
Construction starts at Lhasa's "Intangible... →
The Long Tail – 60 Chinese Cities with a... →
