Archive for May, 2005
Harlem 1925
Friday, May 27th, 2005Harlem: Mecca of the New NegroSurvey Graphic, March 1925
Survey Graphic was the monthly illustrated number of Survey magazine, the premier journal of social work in America in the 1920s. In November of 1924, the Survey’s chief editor, Paul Kellogg, asked Alain Locke (then a professor of philosophy at Howard University) to design and edit […]
Urbanisation, not nomadism
Friday, May 27th, 2005IHT: Mongolians test alien idea: Privatizing the land
“Mongolia developed as a communal land-sharing system long before capitalists and Communists clashed over the principles of property and ownership. Every herding clan led its animals across a specific seasonal grazing route established by the clan’s ancestors, and the right to this path was respected by others […]
NETOPTICON
Thursday, May 26th, 2005[netopticon report]
“In the Israeli reality, the methods of control and monitoring are integral part of the daily life. This reality is interpreted by most of the citizens not only as understood but also as necessary. Via the mass media stream of signs and messages every citizen is encouraged ‘to pay attention to all suspicious object’ […]
Great Malls of China
Thursday, May 26th, 2005China, New Land of Shoppers, Builds Malls on Gigantic Scale
“After construction workers finish plastering a replica of the Arc de Triomphe and buffing the imitation streets of Hollywood, Paris and Amsterdam, a giant new shopping theme park here will proclaim itself the world’s largest shopping mall. The South China Mall - a jumble of […]