Welcome back, it’s been quite some time since our last episode, hasn’t it? Anyways I’ve been on a reading tear of late and just ploughed through Robyn Meredith’s bestselling THE ELEPHANT AND THE DRAGON: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, a thin comparative study between the two [...]
Welcome to Copşa Mică, Romania, the most polluted city in all of Europe before Wall Fall (google it if you don’t believe us!). Apologizes in advance: we didn’t intend to be so “Speedy Gonzalez” on this ep, but some barrel-chested former miners — the same irate cats who were summoned by the reconstituted post-Ceauşescu regime [...]
China has already constructed several model futuristic cities — green spaces of calm that offer an ecological residential experience which is popular amongst China’s growing middle class. Yet none of these efforts have been entirely successful for a number of reasons. While we were walking through Bucharest, Romania’s “Circus Park” the other day, we were [...]