Posts Tagged ‘cities’
A great read via The Atlantic Wire - Whither the 21st-Century City? by Heather Horn.
"[T]he "information revolution" was supposed to "make cities irrelevant," explains Mario Polèse in City Journal, but "that hasn't happened." Instead, "big cities have continued to grow." Why? And what ...
Editors pick: What a difference a river makes with mayors
Mayor Dave Bing has appealed to Detroit's suburban neighbors to work with his administration and help pull his struggling, near-bankrupt city from its financial mire for the ...
I receive a link to this blog below from a friend written by Al Martin that doesn't paint a pretty picture of Detroit and it is something that isn't totally being reported in the media. It is a bleak look at ...
I’m going to give you a peak into the mind of a consumer of “the red pill”. Sometimes knowledge doesn’t set you free, but traps you in a rabbit hole so deep, you struggle to ...
It's Saturday at 4:23 pm, and I'm writing this from Austin Texas where I'm lucky enough to be at SXSW '09.
Whether you call it an good aura, vibe, energy, sense or whatever, Austin has it. But here it doesn't come from the bricks and mortar, it comes from the people ...
For the last five months or so my news wire service has been filling my inbox with news articles from around North America, reporting that public libraries in the United States have had a huge influx of people looking to use the ...
Ken Lewenza: They didn't take Windsor out of the boy: interview in the Globe and Mail, Monday 02/23/09
My Ottawa
"I want to live in a city that revels in its urbanity. That's a city that finds its identity and has fun with it."
Editorial Comment: If you ...
'Hood-winked?
Winnipeggers were promised a utopian suburb in Waverley West, but scaled-back plans have dashed expectations and created a very different reality
The Manitoba government and land developer Ladco promised, in January 2003, to transform 1,200 hectares of mostly empty land into the largest residential development in the city's ...
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Chris Holt in Alas, the grass is not greener:
A lot of it was geography too, George, but I catch...- george in Alas, the grass is not greener:
The difference between European and North American... - Dave in Lessons Ignored:
You are right Chris. My apologies to you and your blog. I agree as well,... - Lasalle Al in Lessons Ignored:
If you read the thread, you’ll see I never “bitched...
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