Globalization
Immigrants to the United States are skipping ghetto life in favor of the suburban experience.
As the suburbs become more mixed, some inner-city areas are turning less so. Los Angeles, which markets itself as the city “where the world comes together”, and New York (“the world’s second home”) both added whites and lost blacks between [...]
What do Chongqing, Wuhan, Ningbo, and Dalian have in common? They’re China’s second-tier cities. And they’re booming:
They are attracting more and more tourists as well as investors from home and abroad. These cities are endeavoring to form their own unique character, attempting to evolve into Chinese versions of Chicago, Hawaii or Bangalore.
In an article from [...]
A report by UBS ranks 71 world cities according to cost of living. Europe has the most on the list, thanks in part to a weak dollar; the continent had 15 of the top 25 most expensive cities, including London, the most expensive. The United States had four cities on the list, all within the [...]
Iain Masterton takes photographs of Beijing’s hutongs, the city’s maze of narrow streets and alleyways. These hutongs–and the way of life they foster–are increasingly falling victim to rapid and unchecked development. Sean Gallagher documents their destruction in a collection of photographs entitled Bye Bye Beijing.
Update: A simple Google image search also turns up some great [...]
The Migrating Media workshop assembled a group of researchers to discuss the globalization of television and film production and “the impact that the process of media globalization, particular so-called “runaways’, have had upon neighborhoods, cities, and regions.” Runaways refer to the increasing number of productions that are no longer produced in Hollywood.
Why does this matter? [...]
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