Category: Vacations
Dotting the South Pacific are hundreds of islands, many of them in clusters hundreds of miles distant from other clusters. Fiji and New Caledonia are such clusters. So is …
Much of the Middle East is in rapid transition, being jerked by the power of oil money from a feudal society into the modern world. Construction of hotels, office …
Questioning the Cultural Turn I want to look briefly now at whether the cultural turn in urban policy delivered the benefits claimed for it. Investment in the arts is …
Cultural re-branding, that is, provided cities competing globally, and regardless of the nation-states in which they were situated, for investment and tourism. Culture provided the imagery – the seeming …
As a cultural theorist, but one who has no particular interest in graffiti, I would still point to the political significance as well the de-contextualization (itself a political act) …
It would soon be dusk. Recent rain had made the Neijiang Vacations track muddy and rutted. One more hilly pass and we began the descent on to the Neijiang …
Hawaii The Moana Kea Hotel, built by Laurance Rockefeller, is a half-hour’s drive north along the coast and through extensive lava beds. Now operated by Westin Hotels, it has …
THE PACIFIC BASIN Growth and travel within and to the Pacific Basin area rose three-and-a-half times in the 1969-1979 decade, well ahead of the world average. The Boeing company …