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Category Archives: Urban Living

Banksy’s wonderful "rats" series

 
   
Get more at the Banksy website .

Flâneur

 Moon River alerted me to something by The Nonist on Flâneurs:

This is a map by de Lauwe of all the movements made during one year by a student living in the 16th Arrondissement of Paris. Her itinerary forms a small triangle with no significant deviations, the three apexes of which are the School of [...]

Immigration ’small benefit’ to UK

The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits.
When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed.
I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly.
See or example:

Immigration sophistry debunked…again
The [...]

Inside the Tokyo Traffic Control Center

 
“Tokyo traffic can be crazy. Perhaps not as crazy as it is frustrating, but it’s certainly a lot easier to get through the mess on a Monkey rather than in a car.
However, despite our gripes about traffic lights that seem very poorly timed, it turns out that the entire system is much more centralized [...]

Serbian hooligans attempt to torch cop

              Thugs attempt to set the policeman on fire
The Serbian press has spent most of the week soul-searching in the aftermath of a truly terrifying attack that took place on Sunday.
A plain clothed police officer from the elite Gendarmerie Unit - Nebojsa Trajkovic (42) -  was identified in the stands by hooligans from Red [...]

New Belgrade - A new photo project by Juergen Horn

New Belgrade is one of the most fascinating urban landcapes I have even seen. Just last week I cycled out there to take pictures of some of the incredible housing “bloks” that one can find there (sample below).
Check out Juergen Horn’s beautiful images of this incredible place:
 
The project page is here. Juergen’s weblog [...]

Update on Whelan murder

A man has been arrested in connection with the horrible murder on the number 43 bus (see this post) according to the BBC.

Brutally Honest Personals

From Esquire Magazine: The singles…are real people with real issues. Some are overweight. Others are crippled by debt. Quite a few live with their parents. But they all have one thing in common: They are available. And they’ve put themselves out there with the hope of finding someone willing to accept them at face value. [...]

Ruin-lovers anonymous

This Russian site, Abandoned, “is a photo base of abandoned plants, unfinished buildings, industrial sites. Most of them situated near to Moscow.”
http://www.abandoned.ru
For the ruin-lovers amongst us.

Happy Slapping back in the news

Smart Mobs cover the topic: Part 1 and 2. Now there is footage too. It is horrible to watch.
For the record, I was on this whole topic two months ago in “The pain of others: Abu Graib, Bumfights, Jackass, Happy Slapping…a new media sadism?”.