Editor's note: This is the fourth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Emi Higashiyama The story of Taiwan’s emergence into modernity can be difficult to interpret because it is a story that has been caught in the fierce rivalry between China and…

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17.04.2025

The Tides: Maluku’s Untold Stories – The Metropole

Editor's note: This is the fifth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Fendy Tulodo In the vast archipelago of Indonesia, Maluku stands as a region shaped by both its turbulent history and its deep connection to the sea. Once the epicenter of…

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23.04.2025

City Afloat: Rethinking the “Other” Side of Canton, 1757-1949 – The Metropole

Editor's note: This is the sixth post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Qingyun Lin There is no spectacle in the world more wonderful to a stranger's eyes than the river population of the Celestial Empire.[1]—Osmond Tiffany (1823-1895) In May 1844, Osmond Tiffany—a…

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24.04.2025

Constructing the “Fresh Coast”: Water and the Reinvention of the Post-Industrial City – The Metropole

Editor's note: This is the seventh post in our theme for April 2025, The City Aquatic. For additional entries in the series, see here. By Michael Carriere On December 3, 2008, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appeared at a day-long symposium on “concentrated poverty” in America, held at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. Barrett told…

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Waterworld: How Water Engineering Became Imperial Japan’s Method of Building Cities – The Metropole

The Tides: Maluku’s Untold Stories – The Metropole

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Constructing the “Fresh Coast”: Water and the Reinvention of the Post-Industrial City – The Metropole

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