Check out Celine’s December post for more on the UK protests. There is a battle on in Britain at the moment, over the loss of…
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Check out Andrea’s December post for more on the UK protests. The UK is in the throes of the largest student movement this country has…
Our federal deficit is hovering somewhere around $14 trillion. A deficit, as anyone who has had to maintain a household budget will tell you, is…
What does hip-hop legend J-Live have in common with the billionaire ultra-conservative Koch brother? Not much. Expect perhaps that they both work hard and are…
A few months ago we invited all of you to participate in our first ever survey-contest about what you would like to see simply explained…
On Sunday, October 24, all of the Dr. Pop core blogger crew (except for Ryan, who is celebrating his post-nuptials) assembled at Hanbury Hall in…
You can arrive at the idea of spatial justice from two directions. The first is theoretical, looking at how many different people have defined space…
Last week, I visited the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo Los Angeles. Two tiny elderly women were standing next to a reconstructed portion…
When Rebecca “Commie Girl” Schoenkopf saw the blurb for the Dr. Pop July event in Chicago where we showed the documentary Bogotá Change, she immediately facebooked…
London is one of my favorite cities, for its architecture, art, culture, history, diversity, grit, humour…and I am entirely in love with how all of…
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…