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Urban Communication Foundation Award
Last week I was in Chicago at the National Communication Association conference. I never used to go to this conference, but over the past several years I’ve been attending a pre-conference seminar with this group called the Urban Communication Foundation. … Continue reading
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CCTV MediaMap
CCTV is a community media center in Cambridge, MA that is doing some fascinating work in the integration of web media to the mission of community television. My grad student, Colin Rhinesmith, is doing his master’s thesis on this topic … Continue reading
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LA Casino
Brilliant commentary about LA, tourism, and gambling. Link: the show with zefrank.
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The Rise of the Ephemeral City | Metropolis Magazine
Link: The Rise of the Ephemeral City | Metropolis Magazine. Cities have always been about change. And as we plunge deeper into the millennium, we may now be witnessing the emergence of a new kind of urban place, populated largely … Continue reading
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New Urbanism in New Orleans
However, the ideas behind New Urbanism have seldom been intellectually destroyed, with detractors preferring to sneer at the clichéd attempt at Classicism (or Romanticism). The two other famous exemplars of New Urbanism are Seaside in Florida, built 25 years ago … Continue reading
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L.A.’s future is up in the air – Los Angeles Times
Ray Bradbury on the climate specific transportation imperative of Los Angeles. Forty years have passed, and more than ever we need an open discussion of our future. If we examine the history of subways, we will find how tremendously expensive … Continue reading
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Do Networks Equal Publics?
I think it’s great that cities are going wireless. I think it’s magnfiicent that one day, I’ll be able to open my laptop on any street corner and download the latest on this or that or post to my blog. … Continue reading
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Decline of Western Civilization
Joel Kotkin writing in the Washington Post about the inevitable decline of the modern city: He argues that cities have been losing population since 2000 as a direct result of terrorism concerns. The kinds of policies needed to secure their … Continue reading