{"id":3270,"date":"2014-05-31T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2017-06-16T19:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:54:35","slug":"new-to-ulaanbaatar-in-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2014\/new-to-ulaanbaatar-in-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New to Ulaanbaatar in May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Julian Dierkes<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">Back in October 2013, I made a list of <a title=\"Visible Manifestations of Social Change in Ulaanbaatar\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2013\/bets-on-visible-manifestations-of-social-change-in-ulaanbaatar\/\">things that are arriving to\/disappearing from central Ulaanbaatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">I&#8217;ve copied that list here and am adding to it. New items since October 2013 that I&#8217;m adding in May 2014 in <em>italics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">What has arrived?<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333;\">\n<li>sadly, Louis Vuitton and KFC<\/li>\n<li>Mini, Bentley<\/li>\n<li>child seats<\/li>\n<li>sidewalks<\/li>\n<li>parks [these are closely linked to Bat-Uul&#8217;s election win in 2012]<\/li>\n<li>farmers\u2019 markets<\/li>\n<li><em>yoga<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>dogs on leashes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Sunday morning joggers and bikers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>coffee culture<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com\/originals\/75\/de\/6b\/75de6b365f9a788b583d618d2962aa1c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"117\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barista Art at the Rosewood in Ulaanbaatar<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>What has disappeared, or at least nearly?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">Note that some of these may be due to seasonal changes, as I hadn\u2019t been in Ulaanbaatar in September before my last winter, really only in summer or winter.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333;\">\n<li>stationary 80s-office-phone-looking old-granny cell phone booth<\/li>\n<li>for-pay scales<\/li>\n<li>free WiFi on Sukhbaatar, er Chinggis Khaan Square<\/li>\n<li>Sukhbaatar Square<\/li>\n<li>open gullys\/missing manholes<\/li>\n<li>street kids<\/li>\n<li>packs of dogs<\/li>\n<li>smoking<\/li>\n<li>the sixth-floor souvenir shop at the State Department Store (though perhaps seasonal)<\/li>\n<li><em>oversized sunglasses for women that were so popular across Asia (?) some years ago<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Nescafe (see above on coffee culture)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What will appear in the future<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333;\">\n<li>navigation systems<\/li>\n<li>wheelchair accessibility<\/li>\n<li>bike lanes<\/li>\n<li>city park along the Tuul<\/li>\n<li>new airport (apparently)<\/li>\n<li>subway (really, I wish they had selected light rail instead)<\/li>\n<li>sports cars<\/li>\n<li>Harley-Davidson<\/li>\n<li>urban renewal and historical restorations embracing district north of government house (National University of Mongolia, German embassy, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>road signs in the countryside<\/li>\n<li>street names and signs in the city<\/li>\n<li>network of cross-country riding trails<\/li>\n<li><em>parking (meters)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What will disappear in the near future<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">I\u2019m going out on a predictive limb here\u2026 2-3 years is what I mean by \u201cnear future\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333;\">\n<li>stray dogs<\/li>\n<li>stretched-out hand to signal for a car ride<\/li>\n<li><em>that awkward extra half-step on most stairs<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What will disappear in the medium-term future<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">I mean around 5 years or so.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #333333;\">\n<li>new (to Mongolia) cars that are right-hand drive<\/li>\n<li>the neo-classical Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, with its Stalinist (if that\u2019s an architectural style) spire<\/li>\n<li>deels in the city<\/li>\n<li>some of the downtown university campuses<\/li>\n<li>buildings of 4 floors or less in the urban core.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julian Dierkes Back in October 2013, I made a list of things that are arriving to\/disappearing from central Ulaanbaatar. I&#8217;ve copied that list here and am adding to it. New items since October 2013 that I&#8217;m adding in May &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2014\/new-to-ulaanbaatar-in-may-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1148,307856,307852],"tags":[983090],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-curios","category-ulaanbaatar","tag-julian-dierkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}