I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call in “vandalism,” but when we destroy something created by nature we call it “progress.
— Ed Begley Jr. (via gutchduts)
Nø City Guide: UrbaChina: Shanghai Nø City Guide
The collection does not pretend to be academic. Contributors come from a wide range of backgrounds, nationalities and occupations, but many of them work in the art industry: the numerous illustrations reflect the artistic aspect of the book. Many of the authors have…
An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. If he doesn’t have the faith in himself, the energy, the ambition, to shake it off or absorb it and plow ahead, he’ll wind up a one-book man or a two-book man, and hitting the bottle instead of the typewriter.
— Irwin Shaw (via theparisreview)
LANDSCAPE OF SURPRISE
HOW DO NEW CITIES CHANGE US? HOW CAN WE SHAPE EMERGING CITIES?
On the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad a new urban landscape is emerging. This landscape is characterised by an eclectic mix of landmark office buildings and streets markets, high-rises and goatherds, large apartment complexes and improvised camps, gigantic advertisement billboards and temples, villas and old hamlets, decorated office buildings and slums. Cyberabad, as this dynamic, heterogeneous and complex mixture is called in a marketing ploy, is an illustrative example of the urban development policy in contemporary India.
Landscape of Surprise is a project by Peter Gotsch and Susanne Kohte that examines the boundaries of cities in transitional and developing countries as the key sites of 21st Century urbanism. These places stimulate new city forms -‘emerging urbanisms’- and harbour a great potential for innovation. Cyberabad serves as a central case since 2007 and is described through recurring visits, images, and discourses.
