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…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…