I might be doing something wrong—nobody has tried to muzzled me, to shut down Dragon City Journal, although somebody did comment recently that I should just “shut up” (it was gratifying to
Vol.98.3: Paris Cafes: A Tribute in a Time of Terror
The world knows that people were murdered at Paris cafés and other places this past weekend. Much has been said and written, and will be, about these horrific events, but I want to say something
Vol.95.2: THE PLACE OF THE STONE
The following is excerpted from a chapter on teaching in China in a book in progress by the author.
I had been doing a lot of lecturing about planning and urbanism
Vol.91.4: PARIS AND THE PROFESSORS, a Movie Review Essay
There were seven screenwriters on Casablanca. Chances are that at least one of them had a romantic experience in Paris that resulted in Bogart’s doleful line to Bergman
Vol.91.3: LET HONG KONG BE HONG KONG, Part 1
Sai Ying Pun (1930s), neighborhood author lived in 2001
Making a case for a politically independent Hong Kong might seem, at first blush, to contradict geography, ethnicity, and culture—although it is the last of these, that is not determined
Vol.91.2: T-SQUARE 2.0?
For an urbanist such as myself the prospect of observing, in 1997, the “handover” of sovereignty of a major world city from one country to another was an unusual opportunity. Most cities
Vol.90.3: CITY MOUSE/COUNTRY MOUSE: A HYPOTHESIS ON THE WELLSPRINGS OF ANTI-URBANISM
This is a slightly revised paper that I presented at the National Meetings of the American Institute of Planners, Atlanta, Georgia 1973,
Introduction
Probably from the
Vol.84.9: IT HAS BEEN SAID OF PARIS II
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Les Americanes
When it comes to rocky love affairs there is also the on/off relationship between France and America that goes
Vol.84.8: IT HAS BEEN SAID OF PARIS (Part 1)
Une Plume, un Cahier, un Café
Many people go to Paris to write; or at least they seem
Vol.84.7: Uncle Ho’s Neighborhood
Villa des Gobelins, toward Ave. des Gobelins. Ho’s building on the left.
In 1989 I lived in Paris while teaching at the University of Paris VII. I had to arrange my own housing and at first lived with an elderly Englishwoman in the 15th
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