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Geddes Out of Tucson: A Desert Region and Its City
Read more: Geddes Out of Tucson: A Desert Region and Its CityIntroduction 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, but to create an impression of the city. This information entails primarily ethnographic observation, or…
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The Space Isn’t Fixed with Flows
Read more: The Space Isn’t Fixed with FlowsBoth Harvey and Castells discuss the relationship between space and socioeconomics. Harvey approaches the question through the lens of Marx’s spatial fix, examining the potential of using imperialism as a means to resolve systemic failures in capitalism. Castells considers the question by adding time to the mix of space and production, and analyzes how technology…
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Pets for Patriots – Mission: FAIL
Read more: Pets for Patriots – Mission: FAILI’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 been on the hunt for the right hound. I’ve run into a lot of oddly…
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German School vs Chicago School – filtered a bit through an IP lens
Read more: German School vs Chicago School – filtered a bit through an IP lensIt’s interesting that although the “German School” and the “Chicago School” are presented as discrete, as many of the scholars later associated with the early Chicago School also came from Germany and presumably were (in)formed by the same temporal milieu. Consistent with the discourse of their day, many of the early scholars from both schools…
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Impish Thoughts
Read more: Impish ThoughtsSo, I watched the Superbowl ad from yesterday which opens with apocalypse, in the conventional Biblical sense. Horrors are being visited on the world, the order of things is turned upside down: dogs are walking people; God is Black. This ad was listed in the “funny” section. The punchline is that all this mayhem is…
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My Own Private Pinta: Private Versus Public Punishment
Read more: My Own Private Pinta: Private Versus Public PunishmentPrivate prisons in the United States extend back to the American Revolution, when Great Britain used moored merchant ships as holds for revolutionary prisoners. Subcontracting of certain services within the prison, such as food and medical service, vocational training, and transportation, has always been a component of prison economics. It was not until the 1980s,…
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Considering Mismatcher Metaprogramming
Read more: Considering Mismatcher MetaprogrammingIn Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), there is a theoretical framework called metaprograms. This concept asserts that people are wired along a few natural tendencies in how they perceive the world. Obviously, this is not a new or novel idea, but I am very curious about the particular “metaprogams” identified and leveraged by NLP in its therapeutic…
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The Interplay of In-house Paralegals, Legal Work and Ethics
Read more: The Interplay of In-house Paralegals, Legal Work and EthicsBecause 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 is not to say that there are no consequences for paralegals who breach ethical standards;…
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Board Governance Model
Read more: Board Governance ModelThe Board of any organization must be one of its best assets. To that end, the Foundation needs to implement structure and tools that will allow the Board to become optimal in its stewardship of the Foundation’s missions. One of the most sweeping and effective reforms that could be implemented immediately is an assessment process.…
