Cities = unsustainable systems

Cities consume resources and produce little.. Okay, maybe a few things: education, health services, and some intellectual property.. But by and large, cities are unsustainable consumers of resources. This is the primary failure of modern human civilization. Not war; not...

Bangkok Traffic

Image of the day: Bangkok traffic jam (Thailand)Source: http://www.schahryar.com/photoblog/481

'Another Face', Caroline Jaine's Cambridge-Karachi project

Caroline Jaine, a UK based artist, writer, film-maker, with a background in diplomacy and media strategy, had paid a short visit to Karachi a few months ago for her very interesting Cambridge-Karachi project. As...

Road to Azadi

Azadi Tower in Tehran .. 9 years ago (2002)Source: image of the day photoblog

Luxurious City Project Morocco

According to GTI Magazine Dr. Sheikh Haytham Taha Saleh al Nuaimi is planning to build a new touristic city called ALZAMAN in southern Morocco. Injaz-Invest Ltd., the company behind the multi-billion $ project,...

Vienna Wall

Vienna graffiti and wall posters.From my photography blog: Image of the day

Have an extraordinary holiday with Vietnam and Cambodia tours

You should think about Vietnam and Cambodia as the chance to do the undoable. The new landscapes and take on life in East Asia allows you to live life in an entirely different way, if just for a couple of weeks. Taking the chance to eat, dress and talk like a local from...

The Karachi mix

"Go to any bazaar in Karachi, particularly in one of its older areas, like Saddar, and soon the metropolitan character of the city will start to unfold in front of your eyes… A child with hair as golden as the...

Preview: Stoke City vs. Tottenham Hotspur Betting Tips and Odds |

What will be Tottenham Hotspur reaction after midweek defeat 3-2 this Saturday in English Premier League game week two at Stoke City? "Stoke City will host Tottenham Hotspur in game week two of the Barclays English Premier League season 2010/2011."

Artvertising: AT&T channels Christo in covering the world

It’s pretty easy to tag most artistic types as wonky lunatics. Routinely, they seem to do things that not only defy logic but that exist entirely absent of anything remotely resembling reality. Often, their...

Massive Human Displacement in Mumbai

While flying into Mumbai at 3 o'clock in the morning, the first thing I noticed was the absurd amount of activity going on within the city.  The number of cars on the road rivaled most US cities during rush...

At least 95 killed in terror attacks on Ahmadis in Lahore

A massacre of scores of people belonging to the Ahmedi sect took place in Lahore this afternoon. This sect, which was declared as a religious minority in 1974 by the then prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, has...

All FORA You

Kelly Cutrone visits "The After Show" on MTV Canada, FORA a new online fashion magazine is unveiled, and the Toronto Blog Girls attend the party at the MTV Temple in Toronto; March 15, 2010. Images from:...

Ode to Karachi

My book, 'Karachiwala: a subcontinent within a city' was launched on Wednesday 24 February in Karachi. I have included in it interviews/stories of over sixty families, groups and individuals of varied...

Paris

These are Photos and photo-manipulations I made from images I captured when I was in Paris, France. All my photos taken in France can be seen at this link.

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