Slog - Comments on Dead City http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city The skeletons of buildings: The bombed-out buildings are shocking enough. There are street after ruined street of them in the centre of Mogadishu. Some have been reduced by shellfire to rubble. Others retain a building-like shape - the rough skeletons of once-ornate Italian colonial apartment blocks or shopping arcades. But the really eerie side to many parts of Mogadishu is the lack of people It's not as rubble but as "rough skeletons" that we can see the actual death of a building. Like a pile of ash (of papers, a body, leaves), rubble is itself and not what it was... Copyright 2008 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:59:33 -0800 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:26:56 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by max solomon note that the rubble has been scavenged.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1165638 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1165638 Architecture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:09:12 -0800 Comment by MEC Can anyone share pictures of what it looked like before?

]]> MEC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1165640 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1165640 Architecture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:10:25 -0800 Comment by Vince American's can stop and look at what they've done to Iraq. Hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands upon thousands of lives. We simply cannot bully the world this way.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1165965 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1165965 Architecture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:33:06 -0800 Comment by Cascadian Somalia, 1984:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfJp-4AQWY

]]> Cascadian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1166371 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1166371 Architecture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:41:13 -0800 Comment by rashid The international communities and the media, they love to talk about the genocide in Darfur cuz is ordered by the Sudanise government, while the genocide and the displacement of millions of people and the total distruction of mogadishu is ordered by Bush. This is the killing fields of Bush and no one dares to talk about it.

]]> rashid http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1166828 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1166828 Architecture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:08:01 -0800 Comment by Donolectic The comments to that video show why it now looks the way it does.

]]> Donolectic http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1167121 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/dead_city#c1167121 Architecture Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:26:56 -0800