Tag: books
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Filling in the blanks
Read in ‘Ghost cities of China’ (2014) of Wade Shepard: So how does the story end? In ‘Ghost Cities of China’, the New York based writer Wade Shepard tells ‘the story of cities without people in the world’s most populated country’. “Between now and then, the country’s urban population will leap to over one…
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Alternative models
Read in ‘Food and the City’ (2015) of Dorothee Imbert (editor): A new book about “the complex interrelationship between urbanization and food production” through time and space, in fourteen chapters. Great read. Dorothée Imbert, who holds a chair in landscape architecture at the Ohio State University, is editor. Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University,…