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...
