Space, Geography, built environment

I really like the Post Modern style of architecture. I especially like Teddy Cruz design for housing in Tijuana (figure 8.17) I like the fact that the architecture is functional and appropriate for the space, but that a lot of it is purely artistic and does not necessarily make sense, compared to modernism.

I particularly liked the closing statement of this section: "Global capitalism produces subjects who exist farther from the centers of economic wealth and technological advancement than ever before due to globalization's production of an ever wider economic divide yet who are nevertheless global, and is is their appropriative fashioning of the materials at hand to make do and find a place that shows us the tensions of the modern, the postmodern, the postindustrial, and the global at once".

Image flows

Globalization is a tricky topic. There can be a lot of good done and also a great amount of evil can be spread through corporate domination of the local markets. According to page 405 of POL, the poor in all economies are paying the highest price in the process of globalization. Just like here in America, under the globalized market, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The economic gap continues to escalate.

Then you have global corporations like The Body Shop, who emphasizes education and awareness of other cultures. The Body Shop supports women and underprivileged workers in the third world to manufacture there products. They have become successful, according to page 403 of POL, by "trading on it's image of sensitivity to local politics and environmental concerns". We need more forward thinking corporations like The Body Shop.