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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231166953

An interesting new article discussing the role of sanitation argument in the urban renewal debate:

“...the North Bund campaign has run in parallel to the matong elimination initiative in ( Read more... )

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We all can agree.


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New article, by Hao Li; should be interesting.



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“The smaller the movement, the more the change is noticeable. It is an illusion to think that only the moving objects change, and that stone is frozen in time. The face of the city is stone. But because it is stone, and because it is nailed to its geography, it becomes dynamic. Like the stone thrown into the water, it causes waves: it adds things ( Read more... )

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Here is an outstanding collection of previously unseen drawings of 1930s Paris, compiled into a book, to come out in April:


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This interesting stash of documents and photographs from 1948 pertains to the ownership of the residence at 1917 West Nanjing Road.


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