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...centerpiece of this doomsday vision is the idea that civilization—which he defines as “a way of life characterized by the growth of cities??—is inherently unsustainable because it requires an ever-expanding input of resources and involves the wholesale destruction of nature. All social, technological, and political efforts to alleviate environmental problems are futile; instead, we should prepare ourselves for the fallout by learning about nature, so as to live peacefully without the squalid human world, using only “what the land gives willingly...
...square miles, population 23 million) with its wealth of oil fields along the Persian Gulf, I might wonder why Jews, who blend ethnicity and religion just as Arab Muslims do, should claim so little land when we cover so much. Why does my country house two holy cities??Mecca and Medina—whereas Jews claim but one—Jerusalem, site of the Temple of Solomon and Herod? What accounts for the astonishing disparity between how much land the Arabs got in history and how little was left to Jews?Were I a Palestinian Arab citizen...
...Growing up in the East Side of Detroit—regularly ranked among America’s most dangerous cities??Barnhill knew which houses to avoid: the abandoned building next door, the house down the block where the crack addicts gathered to buy drugs. Many windows on the street were shattered...
...Hollywood or Wall Street in our backyard, or maybe it stems from the working class, Irish and Italian immigrant roots of so many locals. Whatever the reason, it means that the New Englander craves heroes distinct from the highfalutin socialites and power-mongering business elites assayed endlessly in other cities?? tabloids...
...visiting professor in architecture, was born in 1966 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania—just years after the country gained independence from the United Kingdom. Adjaye moved to London to finish his education and has become one of Britain’s leading architects. “African Cities?? shows roughly 40 photographs each of 10 capital cities Adjaye snapped in his travels to the western, southern, and eastern regions of the continent. Many African capitals seem wracked with the same problems: a previous architectural tradition hijacked by colonialism and poorly managed since independence. Adjaye...