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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

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