Best countries to visit in august
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 …
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Asia best country to visit
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 …
Best asian countries to visit
Since money is a small consideration in Saudi Arabia it is spent with abandon. The new airport in Riyadh, capital of the country, is one of the world’s largest. …
Best asian country to visit
THE MIDDLE EAST The Middle East is variously defined. Egypt and Israel are sometimes included, sometimes not. In this blog Egypt has been treated as part of Africa. The …
Barcelona Metro Map
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 …
Tel Aviv Subway Map
In opposition, artists Peter Dunn and Loraine Leeson, in the Docklands Community Poster Project, aimed to create visibility for local narratives and histories which were under threat of obliteration …
Barcelona Subway Map
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 …
Spain Metro Map
Sociologist Monica Degen writes of Barcelona as the most successful global model for post-industrial urban regeneration based on its urban design’ (Degen 2004: 131). Perceived from outside, this success …