Cities cities
Travel pieces and critical looks at big cities we have visited or lived in.
Berlin, 1984
A divided city before it reunited When I visited West Berlin in 1984 to cover the Filmfestspiele, or Berlin Film Festival, the city was thoroughly divided. Much of my day there was spent exploring the two sides of the city. In the 1920s, the 1960s then again in the 1980s, Berlin was at the centre…
San Francisco – City of art
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite its problems, tops among them a stratospheric level of housing prices and vast homelessness, this city remains a magnet for creative design of all sorts. A compendium of art we saw at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF-MOMA) helps launch our new Cities Cities section at the davidwinch.website.The sensational…
Bangkok is calling, but UN staff don’t hear it
From the archives: 2010 The city is bursting with activity. Its downtown pulses like a mini-Tokyo. The country is growing prosperous, and gleaming towers rise at every turn. Yes, it’s not hard to boost Bangkok and Thailand. And yet, who wants to work there? by David Winch, UN Special magazine, March 2010 photos: Pierre-Michel Virot…