Day: March 2, 2014
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Affairs / Urbanism
by Jyoti Kapur •
Christine Loh spent spent 14 years in the commercial world before becoming a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. She chose to retire from front-line politics in 2000 to set up a non-profit public policy think tank, Civic Exchange. She has written and edited books on Hong Kong politics, democratic practices, and SARS. She…
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Review on Glocalization as Globalization: Evolution of a Sociological Concept
by katjaglaess •
Review on Habibul Haque Khondker’s article Glocalization as Globalization: Evolution of a Sociological Concept (Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, Vol. 1. No.2. July, 2004 ) Some see globalisation as a devestating notion, other see it as economical accretion and modernization. In social sience globalisation as a notion has a short history. Globalisation as a term came…
Pool, Public Spheres
Roland Roos: free repair
by Patricia Nocon •
I would like to add this as a comment to the Post by Patrick “We must construct as well as destroy” FREE REPAIR Roland Roos repairs broken, displaced or damaged things in public space. Each repair is intended to restore a particular detail to its pre-damaged state. Before and after the repair a photograph is…