navigating beyond the old maps
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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Both 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…
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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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It’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….
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So, 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…
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Private 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…
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In 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…
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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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The 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…
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