At night in Barcelona, Gaudi’s Parc Guell lights up, and the little restaurants in Las Ramblas hop with energy. People move around, catch cabs, tweet thoughts, take pictures, laugh with friends. Aside from the laughter, these other evening activities can leave a data trace that researcher Mar Santamaria Varas, architect
In most cities, the phrase “food politics” might evoke images of grocery-store deserts or Bibb lettuce growing on a solar-paneled roof. But in Los Angeles, for Pulitzer-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, it’s in a bowl of pho, or fish kidney curry, or an order of tacos calabacitas. “Food is political
Aimed at bringing together Ministers of Tourism and Ministers of Culture to identify key opportunities and challenges for stronger cooperation between the fields, two United Nations agencies launched the First World Conference on Tourism and Culture yesterday in the shadow of the legendary Angkor Wat temple, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. READ
The revered Michelin Guide has for the first time launched its annual listing of the top restaurants in France in the gilded salons of the country’s foreign ministry, as part of a drive to defend France’s position as the world’s top culinary destination. READ MORE…
The railway that runs the length of Vietnam begins its journey in the country’s capital Hanoi, passing just a few inches from homes and businesses that line the route in the Old Quarter of the city. Photographer Paola Nunez Solorio was captivated by those who live on either side of
The heart of the issue lies in people’s right to gather in the streets, which, in fact, shouldn’t really be an issue. Streets are public spaces and in the U.S. at least, our right to assemble in pubic spaces is constitutionally protected—unassailable. Streets have been gathering places for people since the
The problems of Venice are a paradigm for other historic cities, says a former Getty chief.Venice, he emphasises repeatedly, is a paradigm for other cities around the world in the tensions between its historic nature and modern needs, in the delicate relationship between the built city and the environment, and
Recently in Aleppo, Syria, the Jabha Shamiya militia has started carrying out a new urban warfare strategy: tunnel bombing. Aside from the human damage wrought by this tactic, it is also extremely damaging to Aleppo’s Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage site. READ MORE…
” The interesting thing about food and the city is that obviously there is no chance that a city could ever feed itself. To feed London, one needs about 140 x the area of London. So food is always going to be a global issue. Therefore, it is obviously different
Street artists are showing how they’d map cities differently in a new show that lets visitors step into their clandestine worlds. The drooping rags turn out to be latex, peeled from the sinuous cast-iron shields of Hector Guimard’s spectacular art nouveau entrances to the Paris Metro. They hang beside a
Photographer and artist Uldus Bakhtiozina’s photos treat us to her unique vision of Russian fairy tales. She reinterprets them in her photos by focusing on the pagans roots and ethnography of Russ Land. Her works are thoroughly detailed and immersive, and are based on comprehensive research on and comparison with
Fonts can play a powerful role in shaping the aesthetic identity of a city – and some places wishing to update their image turn to typeface design as a revitalising tool. The Dutch city of Eindhoven did just that. Whether it’s Helvetica on New York’s subway system or Gill Sans on
Carole Itter drags her shopping cart over gnarled roots and slippery rocks along the uneven oceanside trail leading from the little blue cabin on Vancouver’s North Shore to her car, a duck decoy inside the little buggy. Ms. Itter, 75, is slowly emptying the cabin where she and Al Neil have
It goes without saying that “culture” is a confusing word, this year or any year. Merriam-Webster offers six definitions for it (including the biological one, as in “bacterial culture”). The problem is that “culture” is more than the sum of its definitions. If anything, its value as a word depends
IETM and Flanders Arts Institute organise a two days Satellite meeting for policy makers and funders in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2015. The Meeting aims to gather representatives of Ministries of Culture and Arts Councils from Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia. The discussion will focus on the different
During the International Tourism Fair in Madrid, the state will receive the title of Capital of Gastronomy 2015 which will start with 105 gastronomic, cultural and artistic activities in Mexico. The Secretary of Tourism of Guanajuato, Fernando Olivera Rocha, accompanied by the Ambassador of Mexico in Spain, Roberta Lajous, and the
