UNIT 5 / FENG SHUI

UNIT 5

FENG SHUI

Fragment taken from Listin Diario

International Edition, page 13

published on May, 18 2001

Santo Domingo City is a real mess

    Santo Domingo City has become one of the messiest cities of Latin America. Through the frown upon observation of designers and hard-bitten builders The Prime of America lost its position as one of the most visited cities of Central Latin America, title which kept for around 24 years after the celebration of the Fifth Centenary of the New World, celebrated all across the nation in 1992. Its transcendent glamour constructed under veil of glory, faced a tremendous digression under the administration of Mayor Roberto Salcedo, who did not align the city to international design standards when he was running the City Hall. 


   Many citizens complained about it and for the same reasons several representatives of the Chinese community settled in the country were consulted to see if they could contribute in the organization of the city through the Feng Shui principles. “The former mayor was caught off-guard during his last year running the City Hall”. Said Patricia Marcos, current municipal manager of Santo Domingo Norte City Hall. 

Santo Domingo was a silent witness of the abundance and good taste, and we just can remember Salcedo quoting what he once said: ¨Working together our city will live in glamour again¨.


But today it is just a bunch of hollow words.