Word: urbanism
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...Rural voters may be doing well, but inflation is eroding the purchasing power of urban Malaysians-and generating support for the political opposition, whose spiritual leader is Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy Prime Minister who is temporarily barred from holding political office because of a 1999 corruption conviction. Anwar's promise to reform the country?s pro-Malay programs, under the slogan of 'We Are All Equal,' appeals to many Chinese, who make up 30% of the country's 10.9 million voters. "Life is more then just economic success," says opposition leader Lim Kit Siang. "Justice, equality and humanity...
Caracas in the 1950s and 1960s was a modernist boomtown. Croesan oil wealth and a powerful military dictatorship together created massive urban planning projects, built in the modernist style both by renowned American architects, like Philip Johnson, and South American practitioners of the style. The city was once called “pedacito del cielo”—a little piece of heaven. This is not just a nickname, but also seems to refer to the unfulfilled dream of a modernist utopia. Now, slums surround many of the geometric concrete surfaces and glass curtain walls...
...Guerín screened “Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia,” a succession of black-and-white still photographs and text reminiscent of silent films from the twenties. The photographs represent Guerín’s observations of women in an urban setting and offer different points of view on Guerín’s vision of a city and its female inhabitants. Guerín’s other feature films, “Innisfree,” “En Construccion,” and “Tren...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has vowed to wage a "decisive battle" against insurgents in Mosul, which U.S. and Iraqi officials say is their last urban haven. But U.S. forces trying to stamp out insurgent networks in that city lack a major boon the surge effort has had elsewhere in Iraq over the past year: Local volunteer fighters...
...Companies all over the world, who have fed China's long-running urban economic boom, are already beginning to benefit from its suburban phase. The average size of a house in New Songjiang is more than twice that of the average downtown Shanghai apartment, and now we, and our fellow suburban pioneers, are stocking up with stuff. In our house we have drapes that were made in Tianjin, and tile flooring from Kunming, but also bathroom fixtures made by Kohler (headquarters: Kohler, Wis.) and consumer electronics from Samsung and Panasonic. Our town's central shopping mall - which looks...