April 2012
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BBC News - 'Dark tourism' study centre launched by... →
“Dark tourism” - where visitors travel to sites of death, brutality and terror - is to be the subject of a dedicated centre for academic research at the University of Central Lancashire.
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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The Science of Quieter Cities - Design - The... →
Demographic projections  [suggest that] more young people want to move into cities, more baby-boomers want to downsize there, more demand for apartments is coming, and more people want to relocate in close proximity to prizes like metro stops. If all of this is accurate, and even more people will soon be living on top of and right next to each other – while sharing sidewalks, roads and public...
Apr 24th
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G&G Me With a Buccellati Silver Spoon! The OA... →
This strikes me as pretty embarrassing — something that should have been written in a notebook, not in public.
Apr 24th
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Diana Kimball: Global Ambitions: Atlanta's 1895... →
Comprising an elite group of bankers, industrialists, politicians, merchants, and newspapermen, characters such as Charles Collier and Rufus Bullock embodied the spirit of a place they insisted on calling the New South. A rhetorical invention, the idea of the “New South” itself represented aspiration more accurately than reality: in 1895, thirty years after the close of the Civil War, the...
Apr 24th
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The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » College Degree... →
This points out one of the negatives often highlighted about these cities, namely that they are getting more exclusive as increasingly you need to be in the educated elite to be able to live there (or at least to make it worth living there). This might be good for those cities at some level, but I’m not sure it’s entirely good for America.
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Design Ethos: Day One - Core77 →
Hm.
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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New groups, new efforts focus on Waters Avenue... →
It is the latest of several revitalization efforts that have stretched over decades, and it is part of a new wave of efforts developing from residents and business owners who say they must have a louder voice and a greater stake in decisions that are made. The interesting phrase here, particularly given that this is a local news story that otherwise takes the expected rah rah tone, is:...
Apr 22nd
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America's foolish detour into shopping malls |... →
As for big regional shopping malls, almost no new malls are being built any more anywhere in the country. In fact there are scores of malls that are dead and abandoned. Many others are on life-support and are close to being boarded up or redeveloped into more productive use. Here in Puget Sound, the last regional mall built was Silverdale, almost 20 years ago — even though the central Puget...
Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Freakonomics » The Cities of America’s Future →
Writing inForeign Policy, James Manyika, Jaana Remes, and Javier Orellana of the McKinsey Global Institute argue that cities in general and particularly smaller cities will power the new U.S. economy. Examples of “smaller cities” include Austin and Raleigh.
Apr 21st
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