In the McDonalds in this western area of Beijing I am upstairs eating with ye-ye’s, ba-ba’s and kids and grandkids on a Saturday morning. Under the din I can hear the refrains…
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CITIES & URBAN LIFE
Even though I have been a resident of California longer than I lived in New York, I have never quite felt like a San Diegan. Maybe the migrant always…
Booo! It’s Halloween again, that time of the year when we like to flirt with the macabre, with and ghosts and goblins, and death. Ah, but it all…
Somewhat maniacally trying to atone for his lassitude while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf coast some weeks ago, asleep-at-the-switch George Bush has now made his eighth (and counting) visit to…
Could the governor of Mississippi really be inviting 100 planners and architects to come to his Kartrina-ravaged coastal cities to expound upon their urbanisme nouveau to guide their massive rebuilding? Will the un-invited…
I have only visited New Orleans on time, back in the mid 1960s. I was studying urban planning and I wanted to see this fabled city, with its Vieux…
This land is your land, This land is my land From California, to the New York island; From the red wood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters This land was…
John Kerry and George Bush are contending for the hearts and minds of America’s electorate. But that battle also has its regional dimension, with some general divisions of support…
I have to be right up front about this: I don’t like Las Vegas. Gambling, prostitution, and glitz-schlock, over-priced entertainers like Liberace (yes, I know he’s dead), Wayne…
What people put on the walls in their homes is their own affair; but when it comes to public arts projects political hell often breaks out, whether its NEA support…