Cities reflect cultural, social, and economic factors like the food scene or the abundance of options. However, nothing more than architecture can define a place; indeed, through urban planning, historic developments, or cultural movements the visual design of a city is a travel in time. From the colonial cities of the Americas, through the modern megalopolis of South America and Asia…
The development of leadership, power, groups, and society can be considered in relationship between the allocation of economic resources and the political structures with respect to the economic leader’s choice and the decision-making process.
For nearly a thousand years, chariots traversed the sands of the western Sahara; however, everything begun with the introduction of the camel into Tripolitania by the Romans around the first century A.D. and its subsequent adoption by the Arabs and the Berbers.
Santiago well represents the Chilean cultural, economic and educational identity characterized by homogeneity and virtually not existent regional conflict. Indeed, the country’s geographical isolation represents a major symbol of national identification and it has been generally considered a key factor in the creation of a homogeneous society.
Buenos-Aires can be considered the most cultured and sophisticated among all South America’s capitals. Its restaurants, bars, historic cafés and heaving nightclubs, opera house, theatres, multiscreen cinemas, avant-garde galleries and French-style palaces all underline its attachment to the arts and its eternal sense of style.
South America offers great material for photographers looking for architectural spots and dramatic pictures; indeed, the Colonial heritage of the Spanish Conquistadores rests close to modern buildings and ancient monuments of pre-columbian civilizations.
According to legend, in the thirteenth century, a prince of Srivijaya was shipwrecked on the island; he saw a lion there for the first time in his life and took this as a sign that he should found a new city, which he named “Lion City” – Singapura.