Asia — City Notes — Reading the City

Urban Bestiary (5)

If King Kong was a product of the Great Depression, Godzilla embodied the worst nightmares of the post-WWII nuclear age.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Tokyo, Japan, AsiaComment

Comparative Urbanism

This also reinforces my "theory" that we only know one city, the one we are from, and we simply extrapolate when we try to understand all other cities.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Turkey, Eu, Asia, South America, Boston, USA, North AmericaComment

Urban Figures (Istanbul)

Often, travelers arriving to Istanbul have depicted a city of hills, domes and minarets. Instead, when the legendary French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson visited Istanbul in 1964, he chose to point his camera deep into the life of the street.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Istanbul, Turkey, Asia, EuropeComment

The City at Night (Beijing)

In the last few years astronauts at the International Space Station have been producing an extraordinary collection of images showing large cities at night.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Beijing, China, AsiaComment

The City at Night (Istanbul)

How do you draw the map of the city at night?

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Istanbul, Turkey, Asia, EuropeComment

The City at Night (Mumbai)

Midway through "Night in Bombay"--the wonderful and quaintly risqué 1940 novel by Louis Bromfield--the story takes a brief rest, just enough to let the three main characters have a quiet dinner together.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Mumbai, India, AsiaComment

Urban Bestiary (8)

West Lake is Hangzhou's defining urban element, both physically and culturally.

UrbanismGabriel FeldMay 1, 2019Hangzhou, China, AsiaComment