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...NEEDED NOW? While immediate relief needs are being addressed, long-term development work - rebuilding schools, making microloans to rejuvenate businesses, providing trauma counseling - has barely begun. Large international charities with development projects in places like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia include Oxfam, care, Save the Children and World Vision. "Emergency aid is vital, but we can't just rebuild the poverty that was there before," says Oxfam spokesman Brendan Cox. "We have to aim for reconstruction plus." HOW DO I PICK A CHARITY? If you already support a charity that works in the affected areas, such as Oxfam...
What is it with architects? They all think they're specialists in the future. There may be no professionals?outside of absolute dictators?so prone to the commanding vision or the impulse to usher daily life into new arrangements. Ambitious architects are always reimagining whole cities along utopian lines, but the road to utopia has a way of becoming the path to hell. Think of Le Corbusier's Radiant City. His prescription for the ideal urban plan, isolated towers on wide plazas, turned out to be a blueprint for the deadliest kind of downtown and the worst sort of housing...
...those of Weimar in Germany. The new town, which will soon house some 30,000 distinctly un-German people, was designed by Albert Speer, son of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect. Forty kilometers away in Songjiang, barefoot migrant workers are building another massive satellite city, this time a vision of ye olde England with tidy Tudor cottages, cobbled paths, a giant castle and a garden maze. In Pujiang, another Shanghai suburb, 100,000 citizens will soon occupy an Italian dreamscape complete with languid canals. In all, at least 500,000 people are expected to live in Shanghai's seven...
...town hall, exhibition center and restaurant arcade grumbles that there's no way they will be able to afford to live in their own hometown. But inside the building, Yue Xing, president of Shanghai Highpower-Oct Investment Ltd., one of the developers of Pujiang New Town, defends his urban vision: "We are not judging [future residents] by how much money they have but by their commitment to enjoying a better quality of life. We have to think about how to make Shanghai a green, livable place." Yue notes that his plan integrates commercial and housing areas to avoid creating residential...
...really due to a better atmosphere within the team. Guys were a lot more excited on the bench, and it proved that we’re capable to beat another good team. We’re capable of doing it. It’s opened up our vision...