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... →
