A couple of months ago, some friends of mine organized a building session in their warehouse in London. The idea was to gather people interested…
There were several topics I considered for this “How To” post for Dr. Pop. I used to be something of a shade tree mechanic and…
I stole the title from Michel de Certeau, and this isn’t a how-to exactly, more of a how do we, how can we? These days…
The internet, and most specifically social media-oriented websites, are great at being total time burglars. Meaning, you can lose a lot of time looking at…
A Conversation with Angela Caputo Angela Caputo is an award-winning journalist with years of experience. Yet in many ways, she feels like she is just…
I have recently been commissioned to edit a book and sought some guidance from a dear friend of mine whom I once upon a time…
I like to think that my writing journey is just getting started, that my greatest growth and development is still ahead of me. My novels…
It turns out that when you’re working on a PhD, it becomes THE project, THE challenge, THE alpha and omega and immensity of weight that…
One of my major works-in-progress over the past few years has been figuring how to move and transform the popular economics work that has been…
At our last Dr. Pop retreat, we decided that we wanted to experiment with important content in a story-telling way, and decided to create a…
Albert Einstein once said that “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” But at this…
This video-poem highlights key organizing efforts in Chicago including images from the cityscape as well as the front lines.
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…
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…
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…
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…