In obvious deference to the widespread civil disturbances in America’s cities ignited this time by the heinous murder of African-American George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Force,
Vol.107.4: POLICING THE ROBOCOPS
The pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong refer to their police as the “po-po,” a rather innocent-sounding sobriquet for a force that has unfortunately transmogrified into a militarily outfitted
Vol.107. 1: LADY’S OF PARIS
There have been several Quasimodos, even a cute Disney animated version. The best known were played by Lon Chaney Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Hopkins. The movie lore is that
Vol.103.4: FREE SPEECH
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
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