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Rachel Somerstein | May 13th, 2010 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Rachel Somerstein visits
Refuge, Five Cities, an exhibition of photography that explores the relationship between past and present and order and disorder in five Middle Eastern cities. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Nov 19th, 2009 | Topic: Economy | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles |
Josh Leon takes a look at a report detailing the World Bank’s latest policy recommendations for dealing with urban population growth, housing and migration—and doesn’t like what he sees. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Sep 23rd, 2009 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York |
Josh Leon on the relentless upward motion of cities like Shanghai and Dubai, and the excitement and excess implicit in the new building boom. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Feb 26th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
In the second installment of his column, Josh Leon discusses labor practices in Chinese and Middle Eastern boomtowns. (
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Jeremy Rosenberg | Jul 14th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Austin, Los Angeles |
The tops of L.A.‘s buildings are bland as a smogless sunset. But at least this design saves lives — right? (
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Brendan Crain | Mar 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The French city of Lyons is being reproduced on the outskirts of Dubai, presumably for the value of Lyons’ “cultural cachet.” Can something as ephemeral and elusive as the “sense of place” of Lyons be copied and pasted onto a desert thousands of miles from the original? Might it be possible that, in a world run by adults raised in virtual copies of real-world places refashioned, essentially, as brands, the wholesale reproduction of city neighborhoods could become commonplace around the world? (
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Meredith Aska McBride | Feb 21st, 2008 | Topic: | Region: Central | Cities: Milwaukee |
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Jeffrey Hill | Feb 4th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Welcome to Dubai!
If you turn to your left, you’ll notice a 2000 ft. long penis sticking out of the desert. That would be the “Burj Dubai,” (
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Rachel Somerstein visits Refuge, Five Cities, an exhibition of photography that explores the relationship between past and present and order and disorder in five Middle Eastern cities. (keep reading…)
Josh Leon takes a look at a report detailing the World Bank’s latest policy recommendations for dealing with urban population growth, housing and migration—and doesn’t like what he sees. (keep reading…)
The tops of L.A.‘s buildings are bland as a smogless sunset. But at least this design saves lives — right? (keep reading…)
