The Elephant in the CNU (Art 2)
And so, I was recently privileged to receive a registration waiver for the CNU27 conference in Louisville. I was delighted to be able to go, delighted to explore Louisville, and variably delighted to participate in some of the sessions. But…
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Urbanist Series – Blood and Soil
One of the advantages in looking at community organizing and development through the field of social work is that it consistently invites you to dilate the lens from micro to macro. I am always intrigued, for example, by how communities…
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The City Corner, a Crux and Axis
Detroit is a unique city in that, aesthetically, it’s not a city at all. It looks, to an eye trained for urban markers, like a suburb which has a size problem and unusual industrial impact. Few commercial corridors exist in…
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Geddes Out of Tucson: A Desert Region and Its City
Introduction This article considers Tucson, Arizona through the lens of Patrick Geddes’ urban philosophy and methods. It is organized within his trinity rubric of lieu, travail and famille, first presenting a sampling of background information not meant to be exhaustive,…
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Pets for Patriots – Mission: FAIL
I’ve been in a dog envy state for a while. I had been waiting until I felt my schedule and traveling had settled to a predictable level that I could responsibly adopt one, and finally that day arrived. Therefore, I’ve…
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The Interplay of In-house Paralegals, Legal Work and Ethics
Because paralegals are unlicensed and therefore, in contrast to licensed attorneys, are not generally subject to professional sanction by an oversight body, it can be said that paralegal ethics are largely derivative from the enforceable ethics which govern attorneys. That…
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