#mega cities

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...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Steel City Blues: Cities in classic SF films

Metropolis (1927) Things to Come (1936) Flash Gordon (1936) Logan's Run (1974) Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Flash Gordon (1980) Blade Runner (1982) The Fifth Element (1997) Dredd (2012)

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[pittipedia]

The focus in all of the German master photographer Michael Wolf’s work is life in mega cities. Many of his projects document the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises. Wolf grew up in Canada, Europe and the United States, studying at Berkeley and at the Folkwang school with Otto Steinert in Essen, Germany. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994 where he worked for 8 years as contract photographer for Stern magazine. Since 2001, wolf has been focusing on his own projects, many of which have been published as books.Wolf’s work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including the Venice Bienniale, Aperture Gallery, New York; Hong Kong Shenzhen biennial and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. His work is held in many permanent collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Museum Folkwang, Essen and the German Museum for Architecture, Frankfurt. He has won first prize in the World Press Photo award competition on two occasions in 2005 and 2010. In 2011 he won an honorable mention.When the thrilling ‘Tokyo Compression’ series by German master photographer Michael Wolf was first presented in 2010, like the rest of the world, we were stunned by its captivating oppressive beauty. In the years that passed, the Asia dwelling photographer kept expanding the series, next to all of the other long-lasting chapters that portray the DNA of different Asian mega cities like Tokyo (and for instance Hong Kong, where the photographer has lived a significant part of his life) as sublime fine-grained puzzles full of mystery and unfamiliar beauty. In total, Wolf worked on 'Tokyo Compression' from 2010 until 2013, with three publications as a result, that are among our favorites and part of the most interesting publications of its kind. https://photomichaelwolf.com/

[deanlawrencekowalski]

The City in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | City Journal Looking to boost economic growth, China builds vast new metropolises from the ground up.During a recent visit to Australia, I was treated to Barrie Kosky’s audacious staging of The Magic Flute.

[l-in-c-future]

Let's talk about one of the most fascinating trends - future megacities hosting up to 70% of the population of Earth. Brand-new eco-cities like Masdar or Songdo are significant with the excellent utilization of science and technology creating a zero carbon, self-sustainable urban centers. However, new urban centers lack the main component - citizens. This article opens the topic of building eco-society in megacity.

Insight:

Building an infrastructure that fosters the communication and citizen empowerment is one the main component of successful development of an eco city. Regardless the fact, whether the city is newly built or an existing hub, it has to serve its habitats. Well operating infrastructure will attract new businesses and create a blooming ecosystem. City officials have to cooperate with business representatives and citizens to create a common goal that is contributed by all partners. Living, constantly evolving ecosystem is the future of eco megacity.

[utilitymonstermash]

I can’t help but think that most of the museum of fine arts in Boston Asian mega cities exhibits were just complaining about the factors that allowed the cities to become mega cities. If you don’t want them, I’ll take a mega city. 

[noosphe-re]

Mega-cities articulate the global economy, link up the informational networks, and concentrate the world’s power. But they are also the depositories of all these segments of the population who fight to survive, as well as of those groups who want to make visible their dereliction, so that they will not die ignored in areas bypassed by communication networks. Mega-cities concentrate the best and the worst, from the innovators and the powers that be to their structurally irrelevant people, ready to sell their irrelevance or to make “the others” pay for it. Yet what is most significant about mega-cities is that they are connected externally to global networks and to segments of their own countries, while internally disconnecting local populations that are either functionally unnecessary or socially disruptive.

Manuel Castells