🏙️ Inside Pyongyang

Pyongyang is a planned city where ideology and architecture are fused — every detail in service to the Kim dynasty. Kim Jong-il is even credited with a treatise, On the Art of Architecture: architects must reject bourgeois ideas; buildings must remain revolutionary. 'It is as if the people are subordinate to the urban plan.' A thoughtful, example-laden look at how a built environment can be engineered to make people feel and believe — and where, even so, some beauty and lessons remain.