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…
I’m writing this in the spirit of retraction. Not for anything that I have posted here on Dr. Pop, but rather for things that I…
Albert Lowe wrote such a useful comment on Andrea’s DIT article on How to Research a Slumlord, that I turned it into a post here. …
This year’s Community Scholars class is broken into five project teams, each working on some aspect of the theme of a green economy. Last quarter…
This weekend was more infused with art and music than any other this year, and I’m hoping that this is the sign of a wonderful…
So Mr. T and I have a lot in common. You probably didn’t know that, but it’s true. Apart from our shared love of mohawks,…
This year I’m celebrating Mother’s Day with a mashup about Julia Ward Howe a founding mother of U.S. Mother’s Day, and the astonishing Hissa Hilal,…
Recently, mystery and thriller writer Christopher Rice posted a piece on the Daily Beast’s book section entitled Why Crime Novelists Don’t Get Woman. You see,…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Today I planned to share my experience with the 1970 board game, SMOG. But that’s not going to happen. For two…
by Julia Ward Howe, 1870 Arise then…women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!…
James Rojas is an urban planner who devotes a lot of his time to translating the impenetrable maps and language of land use planning into…