Tag Archives: metropolis

Dabbawalla: Hot Lunch Delivery By Mumbai’s Fastest

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday January 6, 2010

The iPhone app Pizza Hut has launched to order and get meals delivered is nice. But even more incredible is the story of Mumbai’s hot lunch…

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One Minute Glimpses of True City Life

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday August 25, 2009

If you’re curious what happens when a regular family in Addis Abeba wakes up, or how people are night clubbing in Hong Kong between four and five in…

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On Kiosks, Part 1: Urbanism

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Wednesday July 29, 2009

We all know the kiosks on the busy streets of our world cities — those small, neat pop-up booths that sell about everything, from newspapers and magazines to cigarettes…

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Size Matters: Ring Roads of World Cities

By Joop de Boer | Published: Wednesday July 8, 2009

Mick Jagger once said about Amsterdam it’s the smallest metropolis in the world. Living in Amsterdam, I’m stay curious about what Jagger saw what I don’t notice. Amsterdam is with…

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