Belmopan, Belize occupies the proud superlative of being the world’s smallest capital.
Like Brasilia, Brazil, it was established as a proud symbol of progress.
But its mostly an outsized bustling village brimming with sleepy administrative functions.
Belmopan’s governmental center has the feel of a community college campus
Govt is very accessible here, but it makes up for that convenience by operating almost entirely on paper. Everything that normally takes a long time—takes longer.
The capital was moved to avoid destruction by hurricane. So that make the National Emergency Management Organization pretty important.
Aside from the US...
the previous article made me think of a photo i took just before christmas, 2004:
an all-weather delivery scooter in nihombashi
and here are a few others from the same day:
traffic at a standstill along showa-dori, in the shadow of the ...