Tag: cities

• Unmasked Ball

  May 17, 2020

  “Password?” a six-foot-tall bouncer asked from underneath the light-blue mask he wore. All around, the streets of downtown Manhattan were deserted—the new normal for New York City nights. https://airmail.news/issues/2020-5-16/unmasked-ball more ›

• Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria’s informal settlements

  May 17, 2020

  MAKOKO, Nigeria — On Jan. 21 Shedrach Zunze woke up to the sound of gunshots in his home in Tarkwa Bay, the little corridor of the Lagos Lagoon, on the… more ›

• Film Crew Documents Life in Wuhan Amid COVID-19 Epidemic

  February 21, 2020

  The streets are eerily empty. Buildings stand silent. There’s hardly any sign of life. http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005196/film-crew-documents-life-in-wuhan-amid-covid-19-epidemic more ›

• Best of Lisbon 2020

  January 1, 2020

  Another year brings with it another batch of bests, another smattering of stand-outs, and another assortment of achievements. https://www.atlaslisboa.com/best-of-lisbon-2020/ more ›

• The murals brightening a Delhi slum – in pictures

  January 1, 2020

  Raghubir Nagar has been given a colourful makeover by the Delhi Street Art group, drawing art lovers and selfie-snappers to a rundown area that they would never normally visit https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/jan/01/murals-delhi-slum-raghubir-nagar-in-pictures more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Let them eat the city, say the urban farmers of Paris

  December 6, 2019

  Paris, France – Parisian mushrooms are reclaiming their space in the dark spaces under the City of Light. Huge quantities of button mushrooms used to be grown using the manure… more ›

• Antifragile states and global cities

  December 1, 2019

  In a series of books, and especially in Antifragile, Nassim Taleb has introduced an important concept — that of being antifragile, referring to ‘things that gain from disorder’. https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/global/article/show/antifragile-states-and-global-cities-3879/ more ›

• Photographing Hong Kong’s Urban Battleground

  November 3, 2019

  The antigovernment movement, which began peacefully, has become increasingly violent and unpredictable on both sides. The demonstrations on Saturday quickly devolved into clashes. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/02/world/asia/hong-kong-protest-photos.html more ›

• Museum of the Future: The building designed by an algorithm

  October 31, 2019

  Even in a city building as quickly, and as much, as Dubai, the Museum of the Future is known as one of the most challenging construction projects ever attempted.In Dubai,… more ›