Globalization

Is this the kind of city we’ll all soon be living in? Or does this model not replicate as easily as it’s designers would have you believe?

A journey to the richest (and one of the strangest) villages on earth.

A look into China’s super cities.

The term “modern city” is often enough to make a traveler cringe, but in China this term is meant to be a good thing.

China is changing fast, and the passenger car has become the vehicle for this change. There is now over 100 million personal automobiles in the country, which has not only caused an all out urban crises, but has also enabled the society to begin suburbanizing.

“It’s not a simple right or wrong, it’s a whole new way of thinking.” -Edward Burtynsky, from Manufactured Landscapes on the industrialization of China. TAIZHOU, China- At times it seems as if China is one colossal construction site. The old is being replaced with the new and the new is being replaced with the newer. The [...]

Bombarding us with news of North Korea’s paranoid antics, U.S. media channels tend to downplay the consequences of such trifles as economic treaties. Yet while many Americans noticed nothing more than a favorable decrease in the prices of their phones and cars over the past few years, the controversial U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement ignited enough [...]

All cultures change, this is normal. Even rapid change, mass assimilation, disintegration are not oddities in the timeline of human cultural evolution. With each ebb and flow of a socio-political empire across large portions of the world, cultures, traditions, and languages are rapidly changed, assimilated, killed off, and new cultures are created. What is culture? [...]

There is a value to the cultural zoo, which is essentially what cultural preservation movements aim to create. A cultural zoo is essentially what happens when a tradition or art is reenacted in modern times in a way that is removed from the social sphere in which it was originally created. Exhibits in the cultural zoo [...]