By Minh Le Do Part I: The misty history of the Maldives Modernity is a very complicated term used to determine the difference between the past, present, and future. Generally, it entails the meeting of processes of political, scientific, technological, economic … Continue reading →

 By Minh Le Do The history of planning in the Maldives is quite unique because it does not have an abstruse history. Despite a short period of British protection, the country has always been an independent state throughout its years of existence. … Continue reading →

By Eileen Cuevas NOTE: This post builds off of a previous post. Please read this post before continuing. Thanks to Le Corbusier, Chandigarh is known as a bold experimentation of planning. While the history of the city is important, how … Continue reading →

By Patrick Braga (For a historical background on this historiographical and theoretical analysis of the story of Moroccan urbanism discussed in this post, please read The History and Legacies of Urbanism in Casablanca first.) Modernism, modernity, and modernization as intertwining … Continue reading →

By Mari Giurastante The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the largest, most extensive coral reef ecosystem in the world. The GBR covers an area of 348,000 square kilometers and has extraordinary cross-shelf diversity. (“Great Barrier Reef”) The GBR starts with … Continue reading →

By: Sophia Li “The Chinatown landscape,” Norman Denzin once said, “is a cinematic society, a cultural landscape that is guided by a voyeur’s gaze.” (Lin, 1998) Indeed, although Manhattan’s Chinatown may not possess any officially defined borders, it, with the … Continue reading →