Tuesday, July 22, 2014
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This blog has been set up to support an elective class in comparative planning and urban sustainability at the University of Auckland.
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Welcome
This blog is open to students on the course and to those interested in urban sustainability. It provides a forum to swap information as well as views and comments about how different countries are approaching urban sustainability.
My Blog List
Link to CECIL
Useful websites
- BBC
- China Dialogue
- DevZone
- Distinguishing Scholarly Journals
- Global Planning Educators Interest Group
- Global PLanning Network
- ISOCARP
- New Zealand Planning Institute
- Panoramio.com - photos of the world
- Radio NZ International Changing World
- Sustaining the Auckland Region Together
- Useful web links
- Writing a summary
- Youtube.com
Cultural Flattening is using indigenous art forms without the cultural reference, elements or rituals. These art forms are reproduced by people who may not be indigenous to the form, or fail to provide the cultural reverences that traditionally would be given. It is soulless art that culturally has no meaning, only the one given to it by the artist. What was once esoteric particular to a culture and at times the epitome of the art form for that culture has now been commodified. An example of this could be the Maori and Polynesian tattoo now seen on a variety of people all over the world. Dick Frizzell has created the art works Mickey to Tiki and Goofey Tiki
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