Free Thinking : The world
From New Delhi, writer Rana Dasgupta
All entries in this category: Destruction
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Are Cities Born From Trauma?
A reader named Kala Rao made the following comment on an earlier post:
"London, New York and Paris retain a sense of their past; in a few years Shanghai,Beijing or Mumbai may completely erase theirs, apart from the few imperial buildings that stand there.
"London and Paris have been bombed in a war, and people who live there remember it vividly; most people who live in the new Asian cities have no comparable experience. In some ways that makes it more difficult for them to deal with a random act of terror."
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Would Cities Be Better Without Babies?
I've been entertained by the comments posted all over these Free Thinking blogs by "Jason" who says, amongst other things,
"Cities are bad ideas, people should live closer to nature, it is more sustainable. google thoreau and epicurus and learn more. Less people is the answer, more info at www.vhemt.org."
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Things In Beirut Were Getting Back To Normal
This blog is concerned with the experience of the "global city". Does this include cities that have been destroyed? After all, living in destroyed, and partially destroyed, cities has been a common part of the urban experience in the last century.
The events of September 11, 2001 confronted everyone with the destruction of a part of a city, and what it means. It became clear what pitch of emotion could be attached to sites of destruction, and what accumulation of trauma there must be in the world just from the devastation of city infrastructure.
Continue reading "Things In Beirut Were Getting Back To Normal"
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