Mass Urban Migration Is The Epic Story of Our Time
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 35-39
ISSN: 1540-5842
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In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 35-39
ISSN: 1540-5842
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 28-34
ISSN: 1540-5842
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 24-29
ISSN: 1540-5842
The megacities arising around the planet are like the Internet where many events are taking place simultaneously. The urban scape today is becoming more a space of flows—migrants, trade, capital, information, microbes—than a space of places rooted in an historical identity.The megaurban condition today encompasses many realities, from the glittering generic city‐state of Singapore to the slums climbing up the hillsides around Mexico City or Sao Paulo. In these spaces we work, love and live out the intimate moments of our lives. In these spaces we consume and spew out climate warming gases.In this section, two of the world's "star architects"—Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry—the visionary "arcologist" Paolo Soleri and the Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate, Orhan Pamuk, grasp at chronicling the reality of where we live.
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 24-29
ISSN: 0893-7850
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 78-83
ISSN: 1540-5842
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 78-84
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In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 72-76
ISSN: 1540-5842
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best known novelist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. I spoke with him in his beloved Istanbul just after his novel Snow—which explores the clashes and symmetries of secularism, nationalism and Islam in Turkish hearts and minds—was published in English in 2005.
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 72-76
ISSN: 0893-7850
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 90-92
ISSN: 1540-5842
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 10-11
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In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 10-11
ISSN: 1540-5842
In this age of confrontation, the secular Turkish model has been seen as a bridge between Islam and the West as well as the link between Europe and Asia. Now that model faces the most severe test in its history. How the current crisis is settled will frame future relations between Islam and the West no less than the events of 9/11.
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 37-41
ISSN: 1540-5842
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 37-41
ISSN: 0893-7850
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 71, Heft 3
ISSN: 0037-783X
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 70, Heft 3, S. 1001-1014
ISSN: 1944-768X