I spent a good portion of my childhood and college years in Paris and during that time, I spent many a day with my friends…
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I believe as I’ve mentioned previously, I’m not that into public spaces, though I have nothing against them personally. But there is one such public…
Since BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion this spring, over 5 million barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. Animals, humans, states and entire…
Great librarians, pushing comics, graphic novels, and more. I eased into Comicon’s hugeness with a panel on Comics in the Library, and just as I…
Dr. Pop was one of the lucky many, many thousands who attended Comic Con in San Diego, the mother of all comic book conventions, now…
Dr. Pop’s first event! In Chicago, a truly great city. About 75 really diverse (and smart) people showed up at Decima Musa (a great old-school…
This week I read in the paper that the Los Angeles City Council was awarding $18 million to finish a project that has been a…
Community space! As I stumbled back home late one Friday night after many hours of travel to get from a tiny town in Southern France…
Everyone agrees that Chicago Public Schools have to change. Yet there are fierce disagreements over what kinds of changes must be made, who should lead…
No doubt I’m the last cat who should be writing about public space. I mean here at home in Los Angeles I rarely think about…
More than any other city I’ve been to, Berlin is the closest thing in my mind to what a city “built for the people” looks…
Last month I wrote a post about Iceland’s economic (and political) meltdown which resulted from swapping out a successful fishing economy with a short-lived reign…
A cartoonist draws while radical geographer David Harvey explains the current crisis in capitalism at the RSA and asks us to come up with a…
Rosten Woo is a designer, planner, and popular educator who recently moved to L.A. from N.Y. after several years as Director of the Center for…
At nearly 139 square miles in size, Detroit is larger than Boston, Manhattan and San Francisco combined. Home to some two million at one point,…
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…
A few weeks ago, Aiyana Stanley Jones was killed by the Detroit police, who raided her home while she was sleeping. The incident passed the…
This is our city! People are resisting the assault on our city. Detroiters are standing up against the schemes of Mayor Bing, Emergency Financial Manager…
What follows are popular education scripts, curricula, poster, brochure, and a culminating report to help engage workers, youth, and families in creating a more green and...
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