Blogs about: Global Cities

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Ready for Departure--musings about global cities2 comments

Wilson Chen wrote 1 week ago: “Migrant Worker of China” by 枫彩(Creative Commons License) Well, I’m not quite … more →

Tags: Mike Davis, planet of slums

Billionaires around the world

bcroninbantry wrote 1 week ago: Recently, the blog of the Financial Times newspaper wrote about cities around the world with the mos … more →

Tags: Leaving Cert, Economic Geography, junior cert, Colaiste Pobail Bheanntrai, Global Interdependence, billionaires, BRIC

City Light Guide - NYC - Read Cities After Dark + Movie: Cleveland's Slice of Night

Leni Schwendinger wrote 3 weeks ago: City Light Guide, a free mobile app by Philips has just been released. Link to Android City Light Gu … more →

Tags: INTERNATIONAL, lighting, NightSeeing, Cities, interactive installation, LED, lighting design, LinkedIn, New York City

What kind of city are we building?

trincollbcn wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday we ended core class city activities, visiting the two newer areas of the city of Barcelona … more →

Tags: trinity in bcn activities, Spring 2013, Study abroad in Barcelona, Trinity College, barcelona, Active Learning, Universal Forum of Cultures

lost cities

urbanmissionblog wrote 2 months ago: We have been in Turkey for over a week, much of each day spent looking at remains of cities. Today w … more →

Tags: Travel, Urban Millennium

cities long ago

urbanmissionblog wrote 2 months ago: This afternoon. Overlooking the Aegean Sea. End of our day. Seeing places where people once lived in … more →

Tags: Travel

Global Cities: London

Talia Maguire wrote 2 months ago: The World Cities Culture Report says that ‘world cities, by virtue of their scale, dynamism an … more →

Tags: The City & Modernity & Network Culture, Power, Culture, Networks, London, World Cities, Cities, city, Economic

Launching new Japanese Gardens Outside Japan website for Nodai3 comments

palmsundae wrote 2 months ago: 海外の日本庭園についての新しいサイトが立ち上げになりました。このサイトには、アフリカからロシアまで、何百もの日本庭園が紹介されています。サイトのスポンサーは著名な専門家である東京農業大学の鈴木誠教授で … more →

Tags: Culture, Garden diplomacy, nodai, Public Space, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Africa, Arid, art works, イアン・リナム

Seeking world news? Try talking with people at Walmart 1 comment

yudo wrote 2 months ago: This is the article from The Charlotte Observer on Sunday, February 24, 2013 that discusses the posi … more →

Tags: Academic Stuff, city, Charlotte, Walmart

A Federalized World Based on Global Cities

Dave Munson wrote 3 months ago: I have not been as diligent in my blog-keeping as I should be. Between my new job, my wife expecting … more →

Tags: Me, urbanism, Regions, World Cities, boundaries, Borders

Monthly Success Article

francissimmons2478 wrote 3 months ago: Click Here. As he placed the X on the flip chart, he said, ?Now there is no place to record the idea … more →

Tags: Click Here, Cars, Show, financial planning melbourne, financial planners brisbane, financial planning perth, financial planner perth, financial planners perth, Automobile

Richard Florida: Abu Dhabi could be a laboratory for 21st century urbanism

Nick Leech wrote 3 months ago: “Over the course of the next several decades we are going to put more people in cities than cu … more →

Tags: Architecture, Abu Dhabi, urbanism, Richard Florida, Creative Class, NYUAD, New York University, Planning

Can money buy happiness?

CG wrote 5 months ago: It’s an age old question; can you buy happiness, or is happiness, or more generally well-being … more →

Tags: Scatter graphs, well-being, Sociology, Scatter Graphs, happiness, statistics, Saskia Sassen, gni, Wealth

Tanuki goes for a swim at the Netherlands embassy in Tokyo

palmsundae wrote 5 months ago: オランダ大使館で、タヌキさんが泳いでいます。「Still City」というワークショップのオープニング・パーティーです。 Tanuki san made a splash during the Sti … more →

Tags: Culture, Governments, S.C.R.O.T.U.M., オランダ, オープニング・パーティー, タヌキ, ワークショップ, embassy, Netherlands

Why are Londoners so anxious?2 comments

CG wrote 6 months ago: Crowded tube trains – a recipe for anxiety? It’s 9.30am, just a little over a week ago, … more →

Tags: Bar charts, well-being, anxiety, inequality, London, Saskia Sassen, The Spirit Level

Edo modern at Hamarikyu garden2 comments

palmsundae wrote 6 months ago: オランダから来た建築家や都市研究者による「成長後都市の生活」についてのワークショップのために、最近、浜離宮庭園に行きました。江戸時代とモダンが混ざっています。 Recently I brought 2 … more →

Tags: Trees, Culture, Parks, Public Space, Garden, pruning, edo, Traditional, modern

Another view of Tokyo Tower

palmsundae wrote 6 months ago: 東京タワーの写真をもう一つ。 … more →

Tags: Public Space, View, Tokyo Tower, 東京タワー, clouds, another

See Tokyo by water, including Japanese garden, funny boat, & historic Asakusa2 comments

palmsundae wrote 6 months ago: With A Small Lab‘s Chris Berthelsen, I’ll be leading an afternoon tour tomorrow of Tokyo … more →

Tags: Culture, Public Space, Walking and transit, A Small Lab, Asakusa, Chris Berthelsen, Dutch, hamarikyu, HIMIKO

Mechanical claw gobbles up Showa history

palmsundae wrote 6 months ago: 日本語では「パワーショベル」と言いますね。昭和時代の家にさようなら。 Living in Tokyo you become used to the continual process of demol … more →

Tags: Résidences, small streets, Convenience Store, Shrinking, New Construction, house, Grow, Economy, demolition


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