Posts Tagged ‘cox’s bazar’
[URBAN NOTE] Six city links: Detroit, Oslo, Cox’s Bazar, Ho Chi Minh City, Shenzhen, Tokyo
- CityLab notes a new black-owned food coop in Detroit.
- CityLab notes the cool new designs of a new Oslo subway station.
- Al Jazeera notes the vulnerability of Cox’s Bazar, the Bangladesh city that is the heart of the Rohingya refugee settlements, to climate change.
- Guardian Cities notes how rapid redevelopment is devastating the architectural heritage of Ho Chi Minh City.
- This Culture Trip article looks at how, among other things, copying foreign technology helped make Shenzhen a global tech hub.
- Tokyo is offering subway users free food if they opt to travel on the subway outside of peak times, CityLab notes.
Written by Randy McDonald
January 22, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Demographics, Economics, History, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Urban Note
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