Posts Tagged ‘shanghai’
McDonaldisation of Cities
26Jun08
The World Cities Summit is happening in Singapore now and one issue being discussed is the sustainable development of a city. I’m just wondering whether the city has become such a formulaic response to urban living that we fail to think outside the box on other ways of sustainable living.
This thought inspired me to take [...]
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Tags: mcdonalds, shanghai, sustainable living, the bund, world cities summit
Shanghai, Singapore, Similar Cities
It felt like a 6 hour bus ride to a future extension of Greater Singapore, a city in a city, but I was in Shanghai, a drab-grey city, where I looked a part of, but felt so estranged from.
The problem with city-traveling is how similar a pscyhe they all have. Most cities [...]
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