Tag Archive 'project'
Surprise, Central Planning is Still Stupid (Even in China)
Lee on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized, Urban planning and development
(photo: 2 Dogs)
Modern China has a curious capacity to make otherwise very sensible capitalists instantly forget every experience they’ve ever had with government central planning. The Western businessman on a trip to Shanghai looks up and sees all those gleaming skyscrapers going up on the Yangtze, and he thinks massive state planning must be different somehow in the People’s Republic. It isn’t.
Sphere: Related ContentFuture Savages
Lee on Jun 23 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Check out this creepy photographic project by Oliviero Toscani. Children are dressed up as heroic “eco-warriors for the future,” in some kind of luddite Lord of the Flies homage. It’s a nightmare vision…but it’s doubtlessly many others’ vision of a postindustrial ecotopia.
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