urbanscale + china   25

Morphosis Architects: Four Towers in One Competition
Nobody can accuse Thom Mayne of being boring. But do I buy the argument here? (And how many times can you say "Chinese puzzle," anyway? Methinks the days of the "locally resonant form-generating conceit" are over, or should be.)
architecture  urbanism  shenzhen  prd  china  morphosis 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
三月二日联合分享会摘要
Delighted to see "Everyware" and "The City Is Here For You To Use" deployed, engaged & maybe even challenged in this context.
personal  beijing  china 
march 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake
After having seen "Still Life" and "Up the Yangtze," and only beginning to get an idea of the human suffering China's dam-building spree is causing, this article fills me with rage from bottom to top. Even more so because of the things I saw in Sichuan Province last year with my own two eyes.
china  sichuan  heartbroken  hubrisgoesbeforeafall 
february 2009 by Urbanscale
China Matters: The F117A Swan Song, the Fall of the Belgrade Embassy...and China Rising
"The fighter was detectable by antique radar operating at wavelengths of 2 meters - a detail that had supposedly escaped the Stealth designers, who operated on the assumption that the plane would only have to be invisible to modern centimeter and millimet
china  lifeduringwartime  strategy  humanfactors 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
NYT: With First Car, a New Life in China
Interesting hints of the coming Chinese car-assemblage. Anhui's Jan and Dean can't be far behind.
interestingtimes  technosocial  china 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
NYC cops beat the living hell out of peaceful Tibetan protesters
I see NYPD's already taking their marching orders from Beijing. That wasn't scheduled to happen until 2030 or so.
(nyc)  nypd  tibet  china 
march 2008 by Urbanscale
Sensei's Library: The Protracted Game
"Maoist theory hypothesizes that, if encirclement is realized, annihilation must be only a small distance removed in strategic space; but encirclement is the only creative strategic mechanism recognized by the theory and consequenlty, when no further enci
go  china  strategy  maoism  space  guerrillawarfare  deleuze 
february 2007 by Urbanscale
Public Shaming of Prostitutes Misfires in China - washingtonpost.com
My god, it's like an argument out of "Discipline and Punish" come to life...
china  ethics  sexindustry  foucault  bodypolitique  kultur  law 
december 2006 by Urbanscale
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler
Cheery, uncomfortable despite the disclaimers about "not being racist," but not too far from accurate in some ways
china  economics  futures 
december 2004 by Urbanscale

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