My son Nelson has been studying at the Univerisdad Complutense, the largest public university in Spain with 75,000 students. He has been in Madrid since…
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In 1990, I organized a grassroots coalition against redlining and for community reinvestment. It was led mostly by women of color and a few very exceptional…
Guest blogger Tony Roshan Samara is associate professor of sociology at George Mason University and a resource ally with the Right to the City alliance….
Observations on the motherland…. Every time I go to El Salvador, getting around is the quite the experience. The last time I went to visit…
Marie Kennedy is a transformative community planner who often draws upon participatory action research (PAR) methods to advance her work. In this interview, she shares…
Albert Einstein once said that “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” But at this…
The year is 1984 and I am on a bus riding through the green pastoral landscape of Northern Spain’s Basque country with about 30 other…
Last year I read The City and the City a sci-fi detective story by China Mieville, which takes place in two cities that are in…
While the economic crisis has hit all of us, and hit us hard, Greece is a country riding the edges of bankruptcy, even after the…
When thinking about urban environmental repair, there is perhaps no better place to start than in what may seem to be the most unlikely of…
The next bubble is bound to be green. Stock markets will rise and fall based on how people relate to new energy technologies. So why…
Banks or families? This is the false choice that big banks and the American Bankers Association are offering Congress as they move to eviscerate the…
Five months ago, Brixton, one of the coolest areas of London, adopted its own currency, shown on the right below – the Brixton pound. (scroll…