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Book Review: Hong Kong Outside

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday February 22, 2010

‘Hong Kong Outside’ is the book that comes with its counter part ‘Hong Kong Inside’ — the book we reviewed Friday. Both books are photographic collections…

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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis, Part 2

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Friday December 18, 2009

“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main…

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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday December 17, 2009

Hamburg has its HafenCity, London transformed the Canary Wharf area into a new business district, and Copenhagen built a new cultural center at former navy base. Over the…

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The Two Creative Classes

By Drew Austin | Published: Thursday July 9, 2009

Many of mankind’s greatest achievements are products of the urban cauldron. That the density, heterogeneity and social environment of cities leads to more rapid innovation and idea sharing…

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Klaus Overmeyer on the Importance of Urban Pioneers

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Saturday June 27, 2009

Klaus Overmeyer is a Berlin-based landscape architect. The philosophy of his office, UC Klaus Overmeyer, is deeply rooted in an optimistic attitude towards the contemporary landscape stimulating an…

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The City Is an Organism

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Sunday May 24, 2009

A city should be considered an ever changing organism instead of something static. Charles Darwin’s famous quote “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most…

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