By dylan cate Tuesday November 17, 2009
The city is man's most consistent, and on the whole his most successful attempt to remake the world more after his heart's desire. But if the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live. Thus, indirectly, and without any clear sense of the nature of his task, in making the city man has remade himself.
- Robert Park, 1967
By lisa boscov-ellen Saturday September 5, 2009
rio's slum solution
The UN predicts that if slum growth continues at its current rate, 40 percent of the world’s population will be slum-dwellers by 2020. Overpopulation of the planet will also have a devastating effect on the environment. The manner in which Brazil attempts to solve this clash of urban and natural environments is likely to have profound repercussions for future global attempts to manage such unsettling issues.
By lisa boscov-ellen Friday June 19, 2009
corporate control of water in latin america
What is called for is an international code for the public's access to to a guaranteed supply of water as a basic human right.
