Bejing Brown is the color of Bejing, just as it was Shanghai, but here at least this is less a matter of the air than the stark and almost barren landscape everywhere around the city. Everything was clearer partially because we read that the weather was changing. A front was coming in from Siberia which would …
Category: International
Urban Planning Exhibition
Shanghai They know they have problems here, and they are trying to get their arms wrapped around some of them. The Chinese envision Shanghai as the 21st Century New York and want to magnetize commerce here. The skyscrapers sprouting through the concrete and old town like weeds is part of that along with accommodating the surge …
Christmas in Shanghai
Shanghai We had a magical day in Shanghai for Christmas. Delightfully, there is no real commercialism for Christmas here. One sees some Christmas trees in the lobby of hotels currying dollars from the tourists of course, but none of it has any meaning to the millions of Chinese in the city. It’s another Monday, just another …