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East London Advertiser - Muslim councillor faces protests as she takes prayer break at Tower Hamlets
Some City Folk Are Mad as Wet Hens When Chickens Come Home to Roost - WSJ.com
Civic disputes in Salem, Ore. over whether or not homeowners should be allowed to keep chickens in their back yards.
Richard J. Norton, "Feral cities: the new strategic environment," Naval War College Review (Autumn 2003)
The US military must equip and train for operations in urban environments where centralized law enforcement, basic service delivery, and legitimate economic activity has collapsed (e.g. Johannesburg).
Allison Arieff, "Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas," By Design, NY Times Blogs (May 4, 2009)
About "inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner Steven M. Johnson, a sort of R. Crumb meets R. Buckminster Fuller.... who says, 'If I could use two words to describe what it is that I enjoy it is that I love to be sneakily outrageous . . . [It may be that] I have decided an idea has no practical worth and would never be likely to be adopted seriously (like most of my ideas), but I like it anyway.'”
The Stranger | Slog | The Teabaggers Are Getting More Attention than They Deserve
The phrases that stuck with me: "fetishization of the rural" and "urban people getting all righteous about their gardens and chickens and compost piles." That's kind of a stupid tack to take.
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Add Sticky Note• Fetishization of the rural (trucks and "outsider art," more urban people getting all righteous about their gardens and chickens and compost piles)
- If you care about sustainability, this is pretty insulting. - on 2009-04-20
¡SUPER NAFTA LAND! - a set on Flickr
An amazing set of images from a Rice U. thesis project, representing an imaginary "artificial landscape" on the US-Mexico border called "¡Super NAFTA Land!" Discovered via BLDGBLOG.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Closing Down Main Street
TomDispatch's Nick Turse on the plummeting fortunes of small towns across the U.S. It's a very, very depressing read. Thank you to Bufflehead Cabin for pointing me to this bummer-fest (http://sn.im/cgukx).
backwards beekeepers
These bloggers do "backwards" beekeeping, i.e., they find already-existing swarms and coax them to move into pre-constructed hives. Or, rather, they create a space in which they can build their own hive easily. I think. Not sure. But it's way cool.
Adam Harrison Levy, "Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs," from Design Observer (Nov. 10, 2008)
The story of a mysterious cache of photographs taken of Hiroshima after the detonation of the atomic bomb, which resurfaced in Massachusetts decades later. Some remarkable images.
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Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs
Transition Towns Wiki -- on sustainable, post-carbon communities
Found via Theolog (the Christain Century weblog).
Scott London, "Crossing Borders: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez," The Sun Magazine 260 (August 1997)
Rodriguez on assimilation, race, "divesity," migration, and Los Angeles.
What Is the Future of Suburbia? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Bio Mapping: Charting Emotional Hotspots in the Cityscape | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration
Urban spelunking: abandoned roofs and tunnels (Salon, 2001)
Salon's profile of some prominent members of what it calls the "urban infiltration movement" -- a Web-centric community of people whose hobby is exploring and documenting abandoned nooks and crannies of their cities. Includes links.
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