Ubiquitous space and culture
For those not familiar with Korea’s New Songdo City, it’s “the first new city in the world designed and planned as an international business district. Overall, it will include 45 million square feet of...
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Japanese love hotels
Mobile tech researcher Younghee Jung describes the extraordinary interaction design of Japanese love hotels: The entrances of love hotels are characteristically discreet. It is impossible to see the...
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Ruined futures
As you travel east from Danshui along the number 2 highway that runs along the north coast of Taiwan, you come to the small town of Sanzhi. Just before arriving in Sanzhi, there’s an interesting site...
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Book Review: Chinese Cities’ Suburban Futures: The Chinese Dream
The Chinese Dream Neville Mars, Adrian Hornsby, and Saskia Vendel (project management) 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2008 . 704pp+79pp magazine. ISBN 97864506529 [Amazon.ca] The Chinese Dream surveys...
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Comments from Salman Rushdie on freedom, religion, growing up in Bombay and England, and the theme of fear and happiness in the modern world and how it is anticipated in earlier imperial moments, such...
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Tokyo Blues
Back in 2007 I was happy to report on Nurri Kim’s fascinating photos of blue tarps in Tokyo, but not as happy as I am today to announce the publication of her new book, Tokyo Blues. “Now available for...
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Instant Chinese Cities
[image credit: Christoph Gielen] China’s Instant Cities “This year China will add more than 17 million people to its urban population. To house this unprecedented wave of migration from the country...
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Book Review: Milieu and human identity: Notes towards a surpassing of modernity
Augustin Berque. Milieu et identité humaine. Notes pour un dépassement de la modernité (Milieu and human identity: Notes towards a surpassing of modernity). 2010. Paris: Editions Donner Lieu. 148 pp....
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