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UER Forum > Archived UE Main > a different kind of decay (Viewed 213 times) verdunstrangler  Location: Shanghai  |  |  a different kind of decay < on 9/17/2004 6:46 AM >   Not strictly a UE topic, I thought I'd post this link anyway. The photos and commentary really affected my appreciation of space and urbanization. Part of me felt privileged to live in a place where we have so much space, we let structures of all sorts sit abandoned indefinitely. I also felt a certain guilt looking through this photo-essay, thinking about the discrepancy between intellectual and visceral appreciations of land.   "Millions of migrants from poorer areas have swollen the new "mega-cities" of India, Brazil, Mexico and other countries to a size that dwarfs the older models represented by New York and Paris. Haphazardly constructed, beset by social ills, these new mega-cities have many unfortunate similarities. As Sebastião Salgado wrote, "At times I would forget where I was. Cairo? Jakarta? Mexico City? Everywhere there are those same islands of wealth amid the poverty, like the green areas of Manila that are private golf clubs instead of public parks." Mega-cities, http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/e1/e_mega_fs.html www.alenaskateboarding.com abandonedmuse69  Account closed as requested.  |  Re: a different kind of decay <Reply # 1 on 9/17/2004 9:47 PM >   wow there are some pretty heavy images in there...thank you for sharing I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. --Pablo Picasso DjMalign  Location: Fort Collins, CO Gender: Male Sexy, sexy, sexy  |  |  Re: a different kind of decay <Reply # 2 on 9/17/2004 10:15 PM >   Very nice. Heavy, but nice. I hate all of you UER Forum > Archived UE Main > a different kind of decay (Viewed 213 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 140 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740965274 pages have been generated.