BOLO NEWS ŽIRMŪNAI, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, AFTER X YEARS
DIY DREAMER
URBAN MONK
the Ministry of environment and urban speculations starts doubting. bolo : A FAILING EXPERIMENT OR A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT? As sculptors/ architects John Körmeling and Su Yunsheng used to say: ‘Cities grow in their own way. Do not prune and pot them like bonsai trees. Let them become ugly, or sick if need be. Cities heal themselves.’ The Ministry of Environment and Urban Speculations wonders if bolistic
BIO FREAK
Little by little bolo communities settle down and start looking for interconnecting points (p.4). However confrontations also appear. Žirmūnai ibus wonder if DIY Dreamers begin to occupy more space than they supposed to. But who is actually deciding where one bolo starts and another finishes..? The Ministry reveals utopian plans what could happen inbetween bolos (p.5).
PLEASURE FUTURIST
It is not a secret that Pleasure Futurists among other ibus are often called the Bolo primus inter pares (first among equals). Is there any possibility for corruption scandal? Urban monks stay apolitical – they are too busy with the own issues caused by the newly arrived ex-workaholics (p.4). These and other stories can be found in further pages.
healing is actually healing the exsocialist districts of Vilnius. More and more bolos appear. Last month Ministry counted more than one hundred applications for subsidies to start their own communities, 27 concepts were selected to be developed in the coming years (p.3). LOCAL NEWS
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