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Category Archives: Production & consumption

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Arturas Valiauga: I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life (2002-2003)
An old lady and her middle-aged son live in a modestly furnished house. Some of the photos show the two of them at home, on the sofa, at the kitchen table, or on the edge of the bed. What was most important to the [...]

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Consumption underground

Thursday, March 20, 2008

GOOD Magazine: Speakeasy Restaurants
In other countries, secret restaurants have flourished for years: In Cuba, mom-and-pop paladares are an alternative to state-run eateries; in Hong Kong, si fang cai offer elaborate home-cooked meals. Recently the phenomenon has taken off in America, with under-the-radar establishments popping up in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Boston. Operated out [...]

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Ruined futures

Monday, March 17, 2008

As you travel east from Danshui along the number 2 highway that runs along the north coast of Taiwan, you come to the small town of Sanzhi. Just before arriving in Sanzhi, there’s an interesting site hugging the shoreline … Accounts vary on the origins of this complex, and indeed, as to whether it was [...]

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Celebrating sub-prime misery

Saturday, February 23, 2008

After a drive through the stucco on chipboard crescents of houses in Chula Vista, San Diego’s southern sprawl near the border and Tijuana, I came across this sign in hipper Hillcrest, which illustrates Matt’s post on subprime mortgage crisis this week.
- Rob

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Sub-Prime and Suburbia

Friday, February 22, 2008

As the “sub-prime” mortgage crisis winds its way across the United States (and impacts the lives of everyone else) we are left wondering how this real estate tsunami will affect the future of home-buying, suburbia, and urbanism. The Atlantic.com suggests that the shuttering of the suburban dream is being fiscally hastened by financial crises, and [...]

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