Is the new greening of the cities problematic?
A Guardian article on some of the problem – social and structural – associated with the recent attempts to “green” major metropolitan areas.
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The Day We Lost Atlanta
An excellent article in Politico about why the 2 inches of snow in Atlanta was so disastrous….
The impact of civil war on the urban landscape…
The impact of civil war on the urban landscape…
This is an article from The Guardian on the impact of Syria’s civil war on it’s urban infrastructure over the last two years…when you look at it, remember to think about the human cost that accompanies this kind of destruction
Blog Exercise Two
As last week, please reblog and write at least 500 words about how these representations of the baroque period of European urban development relate to our lectures from this week.
Blog Exercise One
Please reblog this and write 500 words of discussion about what you see and how it relates to the lecture we had on classical and ancient cities last week. Your thoughts should be posted by midnight on Sunday January 26th. Feel free to comment on each others’ posts…
Abandoned mansion in Detroit
This is one of the many houses that have been abandoned in central Detroit as the city lost first its wealthy residents and then suffered an overall population decline as industry left the city during and after the recession of the 1970s and 1980s. Write a line or two in response to this picture as an exercise in working with the blog. If you’re feeling adventurous, reblog it on your own site and make some comments there.
The US and Bangladesh revisited…
US plan to reward Iran…
The US plans to reward Iran for giving up nuclear capacity by releasing some of the assets that are frozen in US accounts…good idea or bad…read and discuss…
Appropriation of Palestinian land….
This series of maps shows the slow acquisition of Palestinian land by Israel over the last century, while some of those acquisitions are sanctioned by the international community (and are therefore recognized as legal appropriations) many more are the result of expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and the attempts by the Israeli government to protect their illegal settlers and “their” property….
Fareed Zakaria on Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHFMtOBHD1Y
Fareed Zakaria talks about WWI, the Ottoman Empire and staying out of Syria…
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