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Campaign to Drive Out Migrants Slams Beijing’s Best and Brightest Beijing is a cultural, technological and commercial capital as well as a political one, and the tenements on its outskirts are home to tens of thousands of hopeful young college graduates who have moved here seeking better jobs and better lives. These job seekers are…
The Metropolis and Mental Life – Georg Simmel In certain seemingly insignificant traits, which lie upon the surface of life, the same psychic currents characteristically unite. Modern mind has become more and more calculating. The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to…
China goes west: a ghost city in the sand comes to life Mountains have been flattened and villages bulldozed to build Lanzhou New Area in China’s wild west. Four years ago Tom Phillips met empty streets and an eerie hush, but now he finds this improbable desert mirage finally filling up 点击这里，阅读本文中文版
Unbuilt Los Angeles: the city that might have been – in pictures Los Angeles Civic Center – 1925 – Lloyd Wright Wright’s proposal, submitted to the Los Angeles Times in 1925, consisted of terraced walkways flanked by rows of Mayan Revival government buildings. City Hall would sit at the top of this temple-like complex, while…
The last city of the Soviets | New Humanist “In the main secondary school of Slavutych, a town of 25,000 people founded in 1986 in the north of Ukraine, is a full-length mural that tells a strange tale about technology, revolution and human progress. A Neanderthal plays with a Rubik’s Cube. Byzantine monks bring Christianity…
1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place – BBC News via freudquotes In 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud all lived within a few miles of each other in Vienna, with some of them being regulars at the same coffeehouses.
Excerpt from an interesting 1993 lecture by Tom Leclair on Mao II “The real secret, though, belongs to crowds. Bodies gather together to become one powerful body reciting one powerful idea that will let them forget their uncertainty and their individual bodies. Millions of Maoists create a revolution. Thousands of Moonies chant the end of…