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Clean Fuel, Dirty Fuel

07 Sep 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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One of the side effects of using road-side fueling stations such as this is the assumption that the fuel is not as pure as that …
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New Interactions in the Chinese Urban Vocabulary?

Start here. As anyone whose spent a day tailing consumers in Shanghai will tell you: a Chinese shopper and her bags are not easily parted …
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Closure for Dogs

28 Apr 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Shanghai
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Why is it acceptable to the dog’s owner that the dog pees on wheel, but it wouldn’t be acceptable if it peed on the windshield? …
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Separation of Clean and Dirty Spaces

27 Nov 2006
In: Akedake, Cultural Norms
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Shoes specifically for use in the male toilet room (the rest of the building, a mountain lodge is a shoe free environment) the result of …
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