Stories from Third Street 第三街
The following stories are from Third Street in the Sai Ying Pun neighbourhood of Hong Kong. For a longer tour, see...
Learning from Kanye, unfinished…
Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished! To finish a work? To finish a picture?...
Eating from the Trash Can (of Ideology)
As consumption seems virtually impossible to escape in the city, we should look at the ways in which urban residents...
How Brussels Became the World’s Terrorist City
Mid-August I travelled to the political capital of Europe, prepared to spend a semester in the city and investigate differences...
The Exploited City Dweller
Cycling in Amsterdam is a great experience and a lot of fun. The whole city is honeycombed with wide cycle...
Do Cities Ever Sleep? The Night-Time Consumption Story
The Uber driver handed me the aux cable and I held it up to the backseat smiling “Shumaya or Kose...
Casitas in the South Bronx: Making a Place Called Home
During the 70s, many of New York’s neighbourhoods started to suffer from increasing poverty rates and declining living standards due...
The Consumption of Language: The Language of Consumption
During my fieldwork in Tehran in July and August 2015 to investigate the characteristics of the new middle classes through...
Constructing the Shenzhen Dream: The Emergence of NGOs in China
The megacity of Shenzhen is seen as one of China’s biggest success stories of the past 30 years, the city...
The Climate Science Community Putting Cities in its Crosshairs?
Politicians around the globe have been engaging in climate resiliency initiatives with an increased commitment as an international community in...
