Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Metropolis is another “German” game (see last week’s post which explains what German games are all about), that was released in…
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Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… This game has nothing to do with the Havana of Che, Fidel, or the Buena Vista Social Club. “The revolution in…
Andrea Gibbons, among other things, established SAJE's Research Department with some path-breaking work that uncovered an invisible criminal slumlord empire just by digging into the information...
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Beautiful, bankrupt, volcano-spewing, Iceland should win the magical realism award of the century. Iceland is a tiny country. It is physically the size of Kentucky,…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Monopoly City is yet another variation of the classic Monopoly game, and it continues the time-honored tradition for winning: whoever ends…
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…
This Saturday, April 17, in honor of Earth Day, there will be activities in South L.A. This is a good thing, of course, as all…
poster Seth Tobocman While health insurance and bank lobbies vie for the comic-book-villain-of-the-year award, there is nothing more insidious than the invisible health threats that…
a poem If Only Cleverness Could Sustain Her The Earth is unconvinced by our arguments That She’s doing just fine, The ice caps remain skeptical…
Over the past few months, Rosten Woo and I have teamed up with Esperanza to create an online (and off-line) game to help familiarize people with zoning as a...
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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…
Here’s another little Havana/L.A. mashup about art and redevelopment. One of my other favorite places in Havana is the Callejón de Hamel, a small alley…
I recently received a kick-ass comment from a friend of mine named Stuart Murphy. He had some insight to share on the development of the…
Last month I had the privilege and rare opportunity to visit Cuba, traveling along with the FourStory crew, friends, and family. A dozen or so…
Big time developer Ed Roski Jr. has plans to bring professional football, and by that I mean American smash mouth football, not soccer, back to…
This month Dr. Pop is all about sports and politics, about the ways that the love of the game gets mixed up with the…
Plan for London Olympics 2012 Village Photo: ecofriend.org In 2012, London will be hosting the Summer Olympics, “the greenest games to date” according to the…
This is a followup to January’s DIT video and article on How to Make a Storyboard. This time I’ll give deeper instructions by going into…
The amount you can learn might come as a surprise if you don’t read the sports pages, and possibly even if you do. Last month…