Tag: urban transformation

• July 28, 2015

  Unintended consequences of Industrialization and urbanization by Park

  The mechanization and rationalization of agriculture, for instance, has tended to depopulate the countryside, and by converting the farmsted into a factory and the peasant into a wage earner and proletarian, has so stepped up the tempo of rural life that is has brought society as a whole into such a condition of unstable equilibrium…

• June 23, 2015

  Polish-German Border Towns: Models of Transnationalism?

  Funded by the British Academy this project investigates the transformations of public space in interface areas of the German-Polish ‘twin towns’ of Frankfurt-Slubice, Guben-Gubin and Görlitz-Zgorzelec along the Oder-Neisse border. Despite modest populations, the border towns have major symbolic value for two nations attempting to write a new chapter in a modern history marked by…

• March 26, 2015

  Overscaled Urbanization (Tim Franco Captures the Overscaled Urbanization of Chongqing)

  © Tim Franco These days, many of China‘s largest urban areas are easily recognizable to people from all over the world, with the skylines of coastal mega-cities such as Shanghai andBeijing taking their place in the global consciousness. Far less known though is the inland city of Chongqing – another of China’s five top-tier “National Central…

• February 2, 2014

  A propósito dos rápidos procesos de industrialización e/o crecemento urbano

  A propósito dos rápidos procesos de industrialización e/o crecemento urbano: “Si el estudio a que usted se dedica tiende a debilitar sus afectos y a destruir su inclinación hacia los placeres sencillos en los que no puede mezclarse adulteración alguna, entonces ese estudio es inmoral e inconveniente para el intelecto humano. Si siempre se observara…