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Tag: corruption

Bike Lanes and Politicians

This is Christians Brygge, a central Copenhagen traffic thoroughfare. It varies between one and two lanes for motor vehicles in … More

Amsterdam, automobile, bicycling, bike lane, Copenhagen, corruption, politics, Toronto

Love-You Architecture

“The envy and hostility of Wall Street leads many to a common goal: to amass enough money so as to … More

corruption, fuck-you money, inequality, love-you architecture, Panama Papers, politics, popular culture, tax havens, Wall Street

The Barcelona Brand

Barcelona is the sixth most powerful urban brand in the world, according to a report published today in The Guardian, … More

Barcelona, branding, corruption, greenwashing

Calatrava May Bleed You Dry, But Who is Ultimately Responsible?

Several Spanish media (such as El Diario and El País) are reporting that Santiago Calatrava is suing Esquerra Unida País Valencià … More

Calatrava, corruption, EUPV, internet, politics, star system

Power, Corruption and Architecture

Transparency International released its annual report some weeks ago, and this year’s corruption perception index, which ranks 177 countries from least to most … More

architecture, branding, building industry, construction, corruption, crap, politics, Spain, spectacle, theory, tourism, urbanism, urbanization

Strange Bedfellows

The image at left shows the construction of the “Instant City” during the congress of the International Council of Societies … More

activism, Almería, beach, coast, corruption, crap, hotel, Ibiza, politics, resort, seashore, tourism, utopia

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Criticalista collects Rafael Gomez-Moriana's writings on architecture and the built environment. All photographs by the author unless indicated otherwise.

©2014 Rafael Gomez-Moriana. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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