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China's urbanisation – interactive [The Guardian]

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:47:38 +0800

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…

China 'Cancels' an Entire City [The Atlantic: Cities]

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:25:30 +0800

China 'Cancels' an Entire City [The Atlantic: Cities]:

China’s Tibetan Theme Park [New York Review of Books]

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:21:02 +0800

China’s Tibetan Theme Park [New York Review of Books]:

China water resettlement: 'Honest folk have lost out' [guardian.co.uk]

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:17:56 +0800

China water resettlement: 'Honest folk have lost out' [guardian.co.uk]:

"The café is not a place a man goes to for a drink but a place he goes to in order to drink in..."

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:42:15 +0800

“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.

The City: Beijing—Ai Weiwei finds China’s capital is a prison where people go mad. [Newsweek]

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:04:32 +0800

The City: Beijing—Ai Weiwei finds China’s capital is a prison where people go mad. [Newsweek]:

How power, money and art are shifting to the East End

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:21:35 +0800

How power, money and art are shifting to the East End:

13th Dalai Lama's Home Demolished

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:09:00 +0800

13th Dalai Lama's Home Demolished:

Chinese woman sets herself alight in 'land grab' protest

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:57:10 +0800

Chinese woman sets herself alight in 'land grab' protest:

"So every evening we can watch from above Crushed cities like a bug Fold ourselves into each..."

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:41:01 +0800

“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”

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Wilco - Country Disappeared (2009)

Chaos in Bristol's 'cultural quarter'

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:27:18 +0800

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.”

Residential housing developments in the New Territories, Hong...

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:10:20 +0800

Residential housing developments in the New Territories, Hong Kong

http://www.ilpost.it/2011/04/13/foto-mercoledi-13-aprile/residential-housing-developments-stand-i/

Cités Idéales [JF Rauzier]

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:08:16 +0800

Cités Idéales [JF Rauzier]:

"We cannot simply walk into other people’s worlds, and expect thereby to participate with them. To..."

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:51:18 +0800

“We cannot simply walk into other people’s worlds, and expect thereby to participate with them. To participate is not to walk into but to walk with – where ‘with’ implies not a face-to-face confrontation, but heading the same way, sharing the same vistas, and perhaps retreating from the same threats behind.”

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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 music sometimes..."

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:46:53 +0800

“he wants to walk this evening, the rhythm of his steps calms him in the way that music sometimes calms him, in the way children can be calmed when their parents rock them to sleep.”

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Paul Auster - Sunset Park (2010, p.197)

Is New York really 'too New York' for cycling? [Guardian]

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:20:49 +0800

Is New York really 'too New York' for cycling? [Guardian]:

China: 'Don't worry, be happy' [TheEconomist]

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:53:00 +0800

China: 'Don't worry, be happy' [TheEconomist]:

Shenzhen Attitude [NYTimes]

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:25:20 +0800

Shenzhen Attitude [NYTimes]

Le Corbusier's Indian masterpiece Chandigarh is stripped for parts [TheGuardian]

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:32:00 +0800

Le Corbusier's Indian masterpiece Chandigarh is stripped for parts [TheGuardian]:

Chongqing: Chinese mega-city building huge security system [TheTelegraph]

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:51:52 +0800

Chongqing: Chinese mega-city building huge security system [TheTelegraph]: